Book summary “Infinite Possibilities”: summary

Introduction

You often look at your bank account, job, or relationships and feel trapped by stubborn physical limitations. You wonder why your best efforts fail to shift your circumstances, leaving you at the mercy of luck and random chance.

Mike Dooley reveals in Infinite Possibilities that your current reality is simply an unchanging screen reflecting your past output.

Your thoughts become things through the magical mechanics of the universe, and mastering your beliefs, emotions, and actions allows you to deliberately shape your reality.

The book guides you through the exact architecture of manifestation by examining several core areas.

• How do your everyday thoughts dictate physical events?
• Why do your hidden beliefs block abundance?
• How do your emotions serve as reliable barometers for truth?
• What role does the universe play in handling the heavy lifting of your desires?

1. Thoughts Become Things

The underlying principle of reality is that thoughts become things, meaning whatever you think about constantly will eventually manifest as physical events or circumstances in your life. Thoughts have properties similar to material elements even though they are invisible to standard physical senses. Once a thought is thought, it receives an innate power to manifest into your life or attract its nearest equivalent through the Law of Attraction, much like an unyielding law of gravity.

Thoughts become things through pre-matter, turning focus into physical reality.

Mike Dooley experienced this when he repeatedly visualized winning his second horse-riding show and went from last place to first place. Later, he visualized walking happily down the halls of Price Waterhouse and was unexpectedly loaned to the tax department, which launched his international career.

Focusing on the End Result

When attempting to manifest a goal or solve a problem, you must focus exclusively on the desired end result rather than trying to figure out the logistical steps of how it will happen. The hows are the domain of the Universe, operating similarly to air bubbles at the bottom of the sea finding the fastest route to the surface. Insisting on specific methods or specific individuals shuts down alternative pathways to happiness.

When Mike Dooley was miserable as an entry-level auditor at Price Waterhouse and did not know how to be a good auditor, he stopped worrying about the audit work. Instead, he visualized himself walking the hallways beaming with joy, which led to a life-changing transfer to the tax department.

Conflicting Thoughts

Unmet desires do not disprove the principle that thoughts become things. Rather, they reveal that you are holding conflicting thoughts or counter-intentions that cancel out your primary wish. Humans think sixty thousand unique thoughts daily, meaning many thoughts are mutually exclusive. Wanting to climb the corporate ladder while simultaneously complaining that nobody appreciates your value creates a stagnant middle ground because both types of thoughts strive to manifest.

When you set a new intention, you will inevitably be drawn through unthought-of territory and unexpected circumstances as necessary stepping stones to reach your destination. Because reality operates without accidents or coincidences, unexpected events on the journey are simply the mechanics your thoughts use to shift you from your current location to your goal. When Mike Dooley created a scrapbook with international destinations like Hong Kong and Tokyo, he could not have foreseen that accepting a temporary accounting assignment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, would become the logistical stepping stone that allowed him to travel around the world twice.

Visualization Rules

Deliberate visualization is a powerful daily tool to steer your life, provided it is practiced with strict adherence to specific time limits and emotional engagement. Quality and emotional resonance matter far more than duration when creating mental pictures of your desired future. Emotion is pure power that speeds up the manifestation process.

Follow these rules for visualization:

• Don't overdo it. Never visualize for more than five minutes at a time, because it's too easy to start daydreaming and get sidetracked if you try to do it longer.
• Be gentle with yourself. Go easy. Have patience. Don't get mad at yourself if you find your thoughts turning negative or if you find that you sometimes worry throughout the day.
• Feel the joy. If you want to really energize and supercharge your thoughts, add emotion to them. Feel the emotions related to whatever it is you want.
• Don't visualize more than once or twice a day. First of all, your life and happiness spring from the present, not the future, and by dwelling too much on your hopes for tomorrow, you could easily begin taking for granted all that you already have to be happy about.

2. Beliefs as the Captain of Your Thoughts

Beliefs act as invisible tinted sunglasses that filter every thought and dictate what you allow yourself to manifest.

Beliefs serve as the captain of your beliefs and function as the de facto police officers of your thoughts. You constantly generate billions of varieties of sunglasses tint representing different human beliefs. Without believing something is possible, you cannot maintain the thoughts necessary to bring it to fruition. If someone thinks life is hard, it eventually becomes hard because that observation turned into an unquestioned belief.

The Truths of Being

Existence is governed by foundational absolute truths that remain constant regardless of personal beliefs. These life's absolutes exist as indisputable givens like water to a fish.

• We are all One
• Thoughts become things
• Life is eternal
• There is only Love
• It's all good

Observe and Dismantle

Saying "It must be nice" with envy, groaning at a large bill, or driving slowly solely to save gas reveals a hidden belief in scarcity. You can uncover these limits through daily self-spying on your thoughts, words, and actions.

• Pay close attention to all the things you think, say, and do as you go about your normal daily affairs.
• Catch yourself when uttering phrases of limitation or envy and ask why you believe the experience is out of reach.
• Compare your answers to the Truths of Being to make limiting rationales shrivel up and disappear.

Bulldoze and Liquefy

Pace yourself and give yourself intermediary goals when you want something right away. A person driving a Toyota Corolla can better imagine owning a Mercedes next rather than jumping straight to a Lamborghini.

• Reason and rationalize all the reasons why you should have and deserve what you want.
• Act the part by putting pen to paper and jotting down bullet points of why your goal is achievable and inevitable.
• Dwell on the magic of life, miracles, and the grace of your being to make it harder to see yourself as limited.

3. Blessed Emotions

Emotions are products of your perceptions and serve as barometers to measure whether your thoughts align with truth.

Circumstances reflect your thoughts, so your emotional state tells you whether your perception aligns with truth or rests on misinterpretations. Unpleasant feelings point directly to the limiting beliefs holding you back.

Mike Dooley spent a miserable spring morning relaxing by his apartment pool after starting TUT, feeling guilty and lazy because of deep-seated beliefs about hard work and sacrifice being necessary for business success.

Emotions as Barometers

Infinite Love is the all-loving creative source holding everyone unconditionally. Human love instead ties itself to conditions, expectations, and circumstances, which causes pain when those expectations fail.

You can work past fear without uncovering every hidden limiting belief. Immerse yourself in new perspectives and keep taking action until the fear subsides.

• Feel the fear and use it as an indicator of limiting beliefs
• Immerse yourself in seeing things from a new perspective
• Continue taking action even when fear is present

Mike Dooley experienced sudden, intense terror while flying across the United States at seven miles high despite hundreds of thousands of miles flown without issue. Over seven or eight years of continuing to fly and actively reminding himself of spiritual truths, the terror gradually subsided.

Fear and Sadness

Depression results from feeling powerless and trapped, requiring small physical actions to regain momentum. Anger stems from a perceived loss of control left to simmer into rage, which worsens situations and must be felt rather than suppressed.

• Admit and face the feeling of depression or powerlessness
• Take baby steps and force change in troubled areas
• Get moving by going to public places or resuming old hobbies
• Feel your way through anger to understand its source instead of suppressing it

Emotions only point to transient perceptions and must never define your character or self-worth.

• Use emotions as barometers to measure your understandings
• Remind yourself that you are a thought machine and the programmer of your thoughts
• Refuse to let temporary emotions label or define your character

After a relationship breakup, Mike Dooley experienced unhappy emotions that initially tempted him to label himself as an unlikable guy with a flawed character, before remembering that emotions do not define who he is.

Like Begets Like

Thoughts and emotions draw similar circumstances to themselves through the law of manifestation. Wallowing in negative or positive feelings acts like a magnet to generate more of the same.

• Visualize positive and happy emotions without thinking of specific objects or events
• Allow emotions to flow naturally without wallowing in them

Mike Dooley visualized being congratulated by friends and neighbors without picking a specific event to generate the praise. In the following months, TUT's sales broke records, he bought a new home, adopted a dog, and received unending congratulations.

True happiness comes from the journey and personal growth rather than acquiring material things.

• Place attention on the perception of where you are now
• Give yourself credit for the progress you have made
• Practice self-love regarding your current state

4. Life Is Waiting for You

People mistakenly believe life changes constantly, but life is finished and predictable. You change constantly in time and space, shining your thoughts onto life like a movie projector. Comparing time and space to a movie theater, everyone sits alone in their private theater watching a show shaped by their own beliefs.

Life itself is a constant, unchanging screen, while you are the projector using thoughts to create your reality.

Intent without action is not enough because physical gestures demonstrate expectation and help reach a critical mass. Actions are your beliefs in motion, acting as the physical extensions of what you truly believe. By observing your everyday behavior, you can see straight through to the beliefs that possess you.

If you believe you are overweight, you shop for low-calorie foods, which reinforces the belief and triggers mental imagery that leads to eating more and exercising less.

You can change your beliefs by first intentionally changing your actions and behaviors. Since actions and beliefs are tied together, you can use reverse engineering to perform token deeds that do not make sense in your normal life.

Mike Dooley writes a check weekly to a new charity when encountering money worries to suspend poverty consciousness.

• Decide on the beliefs you wish to possess or results you want to achieve
• Initiate token actions or deeds just outside your current set of beliefs on a regular basis
• Consistently repeat new behaviors to force the new belief to emerge

Acting as If

Behaving as if your dream has already manifested powerfully impacts your thought processes and belief system. Actions that presuppose your dream has already come true are more powerful than preparatory steps.

An unemployed person can set an alarm, go window shopping for work clothes, and visit prospective employers' buildings as if already employed.

• Identify the dream you want to manifest
• List simple, inexpensive acts of faith that you would normally do only after achieving the dream
• Perform these acts consistently as though auditioning for a role in a movie, experiencing them as living your dream rather than preparation

Writing detailed letters from the perspective of having already achieved your goals helps overcome fear and reinforces success. A week before running a 26.2-mile marathon, Mike Dooley wrote a detailed letter to his grandmother in New York describing how easy the race had been and carried it with him to read whenever he felt nervous.

• Write a long letter to a friend or relative detailing your latest adventures and accomplishments as if you have just completed your goal
• Alternatively, write yourself a letter of praise, business offer, or proposal from someone like a human resources head or an agent
• Keep the letter around and read it to yourself whenever you feel nervous or need to get into the feeling of receiving

Words and Gratitude

Deliberately chosen words and affirmations serve as self-hypnosis tools to install new beliefs and attract new thoughts. People think an estimated sixty thousand thoughts each day compared to far fewer spoken words. While jogging, Mike Dooley uses steps to create cadence while affirming the health of his body parts, saying things like my heart is perfect and healthy.

• Choose short, empowering phrases or statements about what you want to be surrounded by
• State affirmations as if they already surround you
• Repeat affirmations out loud or silently while infusing them with genuine emotion

Giving gratitude for things not yet materially present acts as a thought of having received, forcing the Universe to manifest circumstances. Mike Dooley gives verbal thanks while jogging or driving for things he does not yet materially have as if he already has them.

• Give thanks and praise to life and its principles for having already manifested your dreams
• Express specific gratitude using phrases like thank you for surrounding me with health, wealth, friends, and laughter
• Ensure you genuinely feel the emotion of having received while giving thanks

5. Gifts from Heaven

Desire precedes time, space, and thoughts, serving as the starting point of creation and originating from our higher spiritual selves.

Desires originate from your higher spiritual self as direct insights, bypassing the rational brain through divine intelligence.

Normal thoughts, emotions, and actions are byproducts of physical experiences in time and space. Inborn feelings, desires, intuitions, and impulses come by divine means from outside normal awareness. They act as gifts from heaven originating from within our spiritual essence.

Direct Knowing and Creativity

Because space is an illusion and we are all One, every individual has a direct connection to infinite wisdom and all knowledge across past and future time. Our awareness extends to every atom on Earth, connecting us to everyone everywhere always. Mike Dooley references the Hundredth Monkey Effect as an example of how knowledge spreads. Limiting beliefs that we only know what we are taught physically curtail this flow of universal insight.

Memories are retained by our spiritual essence rather than physically stored in the brain, demonstrated by the ability to draw them forth using intent. By summoning a childhood memory with intent and belief, we pull it forth from our spiritual essence into the present moment. This proves our connection to something beyond physical brain storage.

• As you read these words, take a deep breath, hold it, and let it out.
• Now with your mind still and relaxed, think back to any memory of your childhood that occurred before you were about ten years old.
• Got it? Now, where did that memory come from?
• Now recall a memory that was created yesterday, at any time in the day.

Creative thinking bypasses the rational methodical brain by dipping directly into Divine Intelligence through focus, intention, and expectation. By settling on the end result rather than logical formulation, you can draw insights from spiritual realms.

When Mike Dooley and his family business needed a poem for a failed dolphin T-shirt design, Mike felt strongly he could write a better one. Within an hour, he wrote a succinct rhyming message that went on to sell almost one hundred thousand shirts, coffee mugs, and greeting cards globally.

Channeling and Automatic Writing

Every human is capable of channeling information from greater portions of the self, acting as physical apparatuses that deliver spiritual energy into the world. Channeled works, automatic writing, and ordinary hunches show that ideas do not originate in the mouth or brain. They are processed through them from points beyond time and space, though you must filter channeled material through your own feelings to assess its utility.

Jane Roberts channeled the Seth material, J. Z. Knight channels Ramtha, Esther Hicks channels Abraham, Neale Donald Walsch wrote Conversations with God through automatic writing, and Richard Bach wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull as a stream of unending words.

Getting Back on Track

When lost in life, four specific actions help you reconnect with your authentic selves, handle your current circumstances, and reignite your path. Instead of worrying about a grand mission, you fulfill your purpose simply by being yourself.

• 1. Be yourself. Fulfill your role simply by being your real, true self without worrying about your career hat.
• 2. Deal with what's already on your plate. Accept your current situation, embrace it, go with the flow, and do your best there.
• 3. Follow the fun. Reacquaint yourself with making fun a priority by remembering what gave you peace and fulfillment as a kid.
• 4. Begin it. Take baby steps, today, in any direction that resonates, moving and taking action no matter how small.

Unsavory desires are neutral gifts and results of current beliefs, serving as ultimate learning systems to help you discover firsthand what does or does not bring true joy. Desires are neither good nor bad. When people pursue things based on limiting beliefs, manifesting those events provides new insights and perspectives that were previously impossible to see.

Dreams born from limiting beliefs seek external substitutes like recognition and status, whereas pure inborn desires stem from the soul's drive for happiness, fun, and growth. When a desire promises happiness and fun, it is unblemished. When it promises status, approval, or love to cure a perceived lack or emptiness, it is tainted by limiting beliefs.

• Start looking to understand why you find yourself without and what thoughts and beliefs precluded getting what you want whenever your motivation includes attaining something you feel you should already have or be.

6. Magical Universe

The universe is a loving intelligence that handles the heavy lifting of manifestation while you set your direction and delegate.

To physical senses, the unknown appears as cold, empty space. It is actually a vibrant dimension preceding time and space that creates material manifestations. Having faith means recognizing your divine heritage and trusting unseen forces are constantly providing for you.

Delegation and Universal Supply

Humans are responsible for setting their direction and taking minimal action. The universe performs the actual heavy lifting of manifestation.

You control the flight path and power up the engine without building the plane. Power up your thinking, aim with action, and delegate the rest.

The universe provides a limitless supply of abundance that grows the more you withdraw from it.

• Spend what you can without worry while believing your coffers will be replenished.
• Avoid hoarding for a rainy day.
• Engage in window-shopping and plan, prepare, and pave the way for abundance.
• Visualize yourself living the life of your dreams and define that life with pen and paper.
• Follow your dreams, desires, hunches, and intuitions by physically moving in abundance-yielding directions.

The Tipping Point

The game of life is rigged entirely in your favor. Consistent physical action places you in receivership of life's magic, triggering serendipities and lucky breaks.

After graduating college with an accounting degree, Mike Dooley failed interview after interview with major firms for three months. He rejected a $12,000 offer from his father's CPA. Finally, a family friend arranged an interview with P.W., which had just acquired a new hospital, leading to an $18,500 offer and rewarding foreign assignments in the Middle East.

• Use lulls and waiting periods to do additional work with your thoughts and beliefs.
• Dedicate time every day to visualizing.
• Work on or update your scrapbook or vision board.
• Write out some of your beliefs to ensure they align with the life of your dreams.

Dwell in Spirit

Every person is inherently worthy of all they can imagine. Figures such as Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Kate Winslet, Van Gogh, Ayn Rand, Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, and Mahatma Gandhi reached stellar heights by leveraging the universe.

• Post the reminder 'Dwell in spirit' around your home.
• Take your every challenge and problem to spirit.
• Immediately turn every desired thing over to the universe.

7. The Elixir of Life

Understanding the mechanics of life acts as the elixir that replaces blind faith and fear with conscious power and predictable results.

Just as a photographer does not need to understand the physics of camera lenses to take a good picture, you do not need to know every cosmic detail to shape reality. You do need a basic understanding of life's overall principles and your role as a creator.

Understanding and Faith

Faith backed by understanding eliminates the fear and burdens associated with blind faith and naturally instills confidence. Natural faith born from understanding sees the outer world as a mirror of the inner world and builds confident expectation. To make way for illumination, you must step outside your comfort zone and be ready to suspend comfortable ideals in order to explore and banish unpleasant emotions like depression or powerlessness.

• Understand what you can and what is right before you.
• Understand today as enough.
• Use understanding in the face of unpleasant emotions by shining the light of truth on them.

The Conscious I and Greater Self

The Conscious I creates reality without interference from the Greater Self, because the Greater Self specifically desired this absolute freedom. The author uses the analogy of an iceberg where the tip represents the Conscious I, with one hundred thousand times more ice beneath the surface to explain that the Greater Self gave birth to conscious awareness to experience time and space without imposing external agendas or overriding free will. Challenges in life are not punishments or impositions from the soul, but stepping stones encountered when misunderstandings meet your goals. You consciously seek end results and goals, moving toward them based on beliefs and expectations.

Spiritual Oneness

Spiritually, all humans are fundamentally One, and every individual is exactly who the Greatest You wanted to manifest. Just as flocking birds or colony insects function as a single mind, humans are spiritually connected while physically separate, making each person an empowered creator rather than a frail offshoot. Enlightenment and true understanding require total and absolute responsibility for everything that has happened in your life.

• Live up to your own high standards.
• Act with faith that your dreams are meant to be.
• Maintain tolerance and compassion for your own divine journey.
• Let understanding spark excitement and joy for your sacred presence in time and space.
• Let understanding empower your ability to write the script of your life.

8. Abundance, Health, and Harmony

Abundance, health, and harmony are your natural default states and divine heritage, not rewards for struggle.

The Universe has predisposed you to succeed and thrive far more than you realize. Lack, illness, and discord are merely the byproducts of limited, fearful, and under-par thinking. Material things are illusions that reflect your inner world, much like a mirror reflects your appearance. Trying to fix lack by physically manipulating circumstances is as pointless as trying to change a reflection by wiping the glass.

While living in Boston, the author experienced a perpetually upset stomach and felt underweight. A consultation revealed that his body was actually behaving perfectly as a healthy body should in response to being mistreated and viewed with the presumption of illness.

• Relax and view weight challenges as small, easily adjustable problems rather than impossible struggles.
• Don't make or believe in excuses or clichés about your body or metabolism.
• Realize that your body is your creation and treat it with logical and loving intelligence.
• Notice and stop all negative statements about your weight to avoid reinforcing negative programming.
• Model your behavior after your dream self by acting as if you have already achieved your ideal weight.
• Focus less on your weight and more on living a well-rounded life now.
• Eat less if you want to lose weight, or eat more if you want to gain weight.
• Exercise with simple, manageable efforts under medical supervision.

9. Relationships

You are the common denominator in all relationships, and other people act as mirrors reflecting your inner attitudes back to you.

Mike Dooley argues that self-love is rooted in being authentic, genuine, and natural. Where you are in life is never who you are, so you must recognize yourself as the chief executive officer of your life rather than letting temporary physical circumstances define your identity.

When the author was running TUT out of a two-bedroom apartment stacked with T-shirt boxes, a UPS delivery driver saw his framed CPA certificate on the wall and asked in shock what he was doing living like that, causing Dooley to temporarily lose confidence before realizing his current state was just a stepping stone.

Our Relationship with Ourselves

• Listen to your feelings, your heart, and your mind instead of what other people think.
• Accept all that you have been and forgive yourself through understanding.
• Stop seeing your desires as needs to avoid focusing on lack.

Our Relationships with Others

Relationships cannot make you happy because they merely act as mirrors reflecting your existing attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions back to you. Entering a relationship when you are unhappy will likely make you even unhappier, while a happy person will become happier.

• Ensure you are independently happy before entering into a relationship.
• Stop trying to make someone else happy as a substitute for your own happiness.

In Love

• Honor yourself between relationships by enjoying single seasons without conforming to cultural expectations.
• Measure your relationships by the love and fun shared rather than the duration on a calendar.
• Understand your motivations to ensure you are not using a relationship to hide from life.
• Recognize that tomorrow is a blank slate and nothing is preordained as meant to be.
• Treat relationships as adventures characterized by hope, challenge, promise, and mystery.

Conclusion

Thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and actions combine to form an unstoppable framework for manifestation because your inner world directly dictates your physical reality. You create your life by directing invisible energy into tangible results through the mechanics of the universe.

Mastering this process requires you to apply practical rules for daily living to ensure your desires become your lived experience.

1. Focus your daily attention on the specific end results you desire rather than on your current limitations or obstacles.
2. Examine your deeply held beliefs and dismantle any mental barriers that contradict your highest dreams.
3. Use your emotions as an immediate barometer to detect when your thoughts drift away from abundance and joy.
4. Take bold physical actions that match your intentions to show the universe you are ready to receive your gifts.
5. Trust the unseen intelligence of the universe to handle the intricate logistics while you maintain your clear vision.

10 Key Ideas

1. Your current reality acts as an unchanging screen reflecting your past output, allowing you to deliberately shape your world by mastering your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and actions.
2. Whatever you think about constantly will eventually manifest as physical events or circumstances in your life because thoughts become things through pre-matter, turning focus into physical reality.
3. Beliefs act as invisible tinted sunglasses that filter every thought and dictate what you allow yourself to manifest by policing your thinking and establishing your boundaries.
4. Emotions are products of your perceptions and serve as barometers to measure whether your thoughts align with truth, where unpleasant feelings point directly to limiting beliefs.
5. You can change your beliefs and bypass the rational brain by intentionally initiating actions, writing future letters, and performing token deeds that do not yet make sense in your normal life.
6. Desires originate from your higher spiritual self as direct insights, bypassing the rational brain through divine intelligence to provide unblemished insights and personal growth.
7. The universe is a loving intelligence that handles the heavy lifting of manifestation while you set your direction, take minimal action, and delegate the rest.
8. True understanding requires total and absolute responsibility for everything that has happened in your life, empowering you to write the script of your existence.
9. Abundance, health, and harmony are your natural default states and divine heritage rather than rewards for struggle, while lack and illness are mere byproducts of limited thinking.
10. You are the common denominator in all relationships, and other people act as mirrors reflecting your inner attitudes back to you instead of making you happy.