Diana Page Jordan | Book Reviews and Inspiration

Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams

By Mike Dooley

Published September 8, 2009 (Hardcover) Atria Books/Beyond Words

The first voice I heard this morning – sandwiched in between dreams somewhere in the six o’clock hour  – was Mike Dooley’s.  In the first seconds, before my consciousness prodded me to speak my professional greeting, I thought, what a lovely way to wake up.

Mike was calling to give me a different phone number for our conversation on Open Book with Diana Page Jordan some seven hours later.  He apologized for the early hour, but he needn’t have.  Guileless at that time of day, I absorbed his energy, and it felt good.

On the show – and in the book, Infinite Possibilities – Mike has a common-man way about him. He’s a tax accountant turned T-shirt entrepreneur turned author/speaker. He’s not stuffed full of himself.  His openness helps in understanding our own paths.

Like me, I often worry that I’ve doomed myself with a few moments of anger against myself for not being good enough, or, for not being pure enough as a child.  Did I cause myself to be raped repeatedly as a toddler by my stepfather? How can I ever forgive myself?  I wanted to ask Mike these questions, but there didn’t seem a place.

But Mike says, and I love this, We are inclined to succeed. And all we have to do is to start now.  From his book, I see familiar wisdom – that difficult life-challenges accelerate soul growth.  I have always felt fortunate about all the violence I experienced, because while I would not wish it on anyone else, I do understand it, and that brutal knowledge has given me deep compassion and love and a profound search for wisdom that I want to share with others.  And, I have seen angels and auras.  But the part about slipping up – falling into the negative – has always challenged me.  Mike contends that the Universe judges not, and it is 10-thousand times more powerful than our negative thoughts.

Are you breathing that sigh of relief yet?  I am.  Read the book and listen to our half-hour talk for the details, but here are the Cliff’s Notes.  By the way, I refused to read Cliff’s Notes in school – I thought that was cheating.  So think of this as a series of sign-posts.

You want your dreams to come true? Get excited about what you want in general terms – wealth and abundance, wonderful friends, international travel.  See the details, but don’t get attached.  Let the Universe provide the How it all happens – it’s got a lot more resources than we do.  Oh, and it might take time – like it would turning around the Queen Mary.  Make vision boards, if you want, or scrapbooks, with images that connect with your heart.  And then do the hard work that occurs to you – the knocking on doors.

The most magical things will transpire, and often not in the shape you imagined…but sometimes you’ll see the exact same scene in real life that you glued to your vision board. Mike did.

Really!