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Living the life of your dreams isn't just about dreaming. It's also about living: following your impulses, turning over every stone, and stepping out into the world so that the wind can catch your sails. To those in the know, it's as if your dreams paint the picture and the Universe stands ready to bring it to life. Choose them Wisely is filled with the same inspirational messages from "the Universe" that made the Notes from the Universe trilogy so popular, but the thoughts have been expanded, containing even more information and concrete examples for how to actually apply these ideas to everyday life. Author Mike Dooley's conversational, inviting tone welcomes readers at every level of self-development into the wonder of their own self-directed futures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12697 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 180 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781582702254
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
An international tax accountant turned entrepreneur turned writer for "the

Universe," and now one of the teachers for the best-selling DVD and book The

Secret, Mike Dooley has found his calling. Mike lives in Orlando,

Florida, where he runs TUT's Adventurer's Club™ for the adventure of

life. He also travels internationally, speaking to thousands on life, dreams,

and happiness. Visit www.tut.com to sign up for new, daily Notes from the

Universe and join the club!

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

In the late 1990s, shortly after the birth of the internet, the little company Mom, Andy, and I had started in 1989, "Totally Unique T-shirts," or TUT, began collecting email addresses from visitors to our retail stores. Shortly thereafter, I sent out my first "Monday Morning Motivator" to thirty-six people. They were simply inspirational poems taken from our bestselling T-shirts. I never added any commentary to those first mailings; I just followed the poem with mention of any retail specials we were having.

In 1999, with T-shirt sales and our own enthusiasm declining, we decided to liquidate our business while we were still ahead financially, regroup, and reinvent ourselves. By the time this was accomplished, all that remained of our family business that had sold over one milion T-shirts was its domain name (www.tut.com) and a database of about 1,500 email addresses. Not wanting to let these go and feeling that the internet could prove to be a salvation yet, I continued sending out the Monday missives, but instead of following each poem with a "deal of the week," I mustered the courage to add a paragraph or two of insight, expounding on the message and lesson of the poem -- and vo-o-o-o-o-m! The response was instantaneous.

Suddenly, I received confirmation from the voids of cyberspace that my weekly emails were actually reaching human beings, because for the first time in years of sending them, people began to reply with notes of their own, which usually went something like this: "Wow! I hope you're saving these for a book one day!" "You have no idea how much your thoughts this morning meant to me." "I'm lookingforward to Mondays because of you!" Of course, as a free service that wasn't offering anything for sale, this was entirely a "nonprofit" venture, but I felt certain that I was on to something.

So, in between updating my résumé and responding to employment ads all over the country, I devoted more and more time to my weekly mailings and the website that would support them, writing about the truths that I most needed to embrace in order to change my own life. And just as it became apparent how small the demand was for an executive who had just liquidated his own company, TUT's Adventurers Club began sprouting wings. "A philosophical club for the adventure of life," its weekly emails soon became daily emails -- which finally evolved into the now wildly popular Notes from the Universe, with over 270,000 subscribers and growing. At times, I can hardly believe the swift reversal and rise of my good fortunes. My "nonprofit" venture has become fantastically successful, evolving into audio programs, an appearance in The Secret, book deals, worldwide speaking engagements, and a nonprofit charity organization called Gifts from the Universe.

Even for me, it's almost hard to believe that this turn of events wasn't somehow meant to be, but I know better. I remember all too well the forks that lay in the road just eight years ago and how "career" certainty and monetary gains were virtually nonexistent, tempting me to run for safety down paths that promised little else. But as I now tell my readers, if you understand the nature of reality, that our thoughts unfailingly become the things and events of our lives, and you let go of the past and all the labels you have accumulated while "thinking what you know to think, saying what you know to say, and doing what you know to do," it will always be enough.

Until now, the original "Monday Morning Motivators" that started everything have been collecting dust in a three-ring binder. But as a reader once enthusiastically suggested, I have, indeed, saved them for a book -- and this is it.

Copyright © 2009 by Mike Dooley

From AudioFile
Mike Dooley's collection of aphorisms and advice does not prove accessible in the audio version. Undoubtedly, some of his advice may hit home to the occasional listener, but the audiobook as a whole lacks depth and cohesiveness. His instruction to just open to a random page and see what insight or proverb awaits is useless to listeners--even those with a "Random" option on their CD players. As a narrator, Dooley offers some excitement in the introduction, but when it comes times for the points of inspiration, his delivery ranges from overdramatic to dry and dull. L.E. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Customer Reviews

I love Choose Them Wisely
I love Mike Dooley's writing. Easy to read with a profound and uplifting message just for the reader. Example page 173 "you see, when you truly believe in yourself, you stop living in the past and your regrets and sorrows disappear. You stop worrying about the future and your doubts and fears fall away. You stop focusing on what you're not and begin seeing all that you already are. Then, with your mind a calm as a glassy sea, you effortlessly think thoughts of gratitude for the present and for your dreams tomorrow. These thoughts will then do what all thoughts must do; strive to become the things and events of your life. But this time around, now that you believe in yourself, they'll have less competition."
What is not to love? Embrace yourself & be the best you can be. You make a difference in the world. This book reminds me to live lightly with a smile on my face.

Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts become Things!
Brilliant! I love Mike Dooley and the whole TUT philosophy. I have seen Mike speak and he is so inspirational. This book is great for just flipping open for a spirit-lifting message or to read from cover to cover. Learning from Mike's attitudes to life has certainly changed my life for the better.

great read to expand your dreams
If you like TUT and Mike then you will like this book. It is a collection of the early stuff, the Monday only posts that came out before the weekly TUT messages. They strike home just as hard as they need to. "All the better to help you manifest your dreams, my dear" you can hear the Universe cackle like the Grandma dressed wolf.