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21 STEPS TO OPEN THE

FLOODGATES OF ABUNDANCE

Mike Dooley is a former tax consultant turned entrepreneur who's founded a philosophical Adventurers Club at www.
tut.com that's now home to over 500,000 members from over 182 countries. His inspirational books emphasizing
spiritual accountability have been published in 25 languages. He was featured in the international phenomenon, The
Secret. Today Mike is best known for his free Notes from the Universe and his New York Times bestsellers Infinite Pos-
sibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams and Leveraging the Universe. Visit www.tut.com
Everything is spirit. Material things all the more so
because they’ve been thought about and believed in
so much that they’ve shown up! The notion that people don’t know what to do, quitting to do something else you’re
with money aren’t spiritual is simply not a “rule.” Just look uncertain about would be similarly pointless. Under your cir-
at what you could do with lots of money. Is it unspiritual to cumstances, to be clear, not only should you stay put, but you
have raised $10 million, so that you could give $2 million to a should master what’s before you. In other words, keep doing
charity serving the hungry? What if you used your money to set what you’re doing, but do it better. This is how to free yourself
up college scholarships for your children and grandchildren? from it.
Or to take them on international trips to witness firsthand
different cultures around the planet? Or to create a business Step 5: Do the obvious, constantly try new things. The great-
and employ people while accumulating wealth for your fam- est way to spark new opportunities and possibilities in your life
ily? Or, after a great run of 5, 10, or 20 years as an investor- is to be constantly trying new and different things. The more
entrepreneur, to incorporate your own nonprofit organiza- you do, the more the Universe can do for you.
tion that brings technology, computers, and the Internet to
underdeveloped parts of the world? Not that you even have to Step 6: Align your beliefs with abundance. Name as many be-
give anything away; there’s nothing wrong with making tons of liefs as you can that would support you and your dreams, and
money just because doing so makes you happy. then behave daily if possible, as if those beliefs were yours.
These are freedoms that only money offers. Not that wonder-
ful things can’t also be done without money, and, of course, Step 7: See everything you do as a stepping-stone to great-
you can definitely be happy without it. It’s your life, your ness. Perspectives rule, and you always get to choose what
prerogative to pursue abundance or not. Either way, it’s time yours will be. It’s not settling for less when you go to a job
to clear up the notion that material wealth is somehow not that’s not your dream job if you choose to see it as a stepping-
spiritual. stone to “better,” to see it as temporary, to see it as enabling
Here are 21 steps to help you open the floodgates the Universe to reach you in ways it couldn’t otherwise.
of abundance in your life:
Step 8: For direction, consider all you like and love. Too
Step 1: Dream! Define your desired end result. Thoughts many people want to be the next version of their favorite rock
become things, so it’s incumbent upon you to start dreaming. star, instead of just being the best version of themselves. You
Make a list of details about whatever you’re dreaming about— have what no one else has, you feel what no one else feels,
get into the specifics. List, list, list, list! Define abundance in and you can dream of things that no one else can —seize this!
your terms. Not how you’re going to create it, but what your
life will be like after you have it. Step 9: Go! Start! Now! Today! If you want change, you have
to physically take action.
Step 2: Visualize daily. Give yourself a few minutes every day
to think thoughts of living the life of your wildest dreams, as if Step 10: Don’t attach to details or insist upon cursed
you're already living it. “hows” or “whos.” In all things, let the Universe connect the
dots, manage the details. By all means, visualize your desired
Step 3: Create vision boards, scrapbooks, post quotes up details as they fit into the mosaic of your abundant, rocking
around your home. Another way to steer your wandering life, but do not insist upon the details, only upon your rocking
imagination to the kind of “things” or circumstances you’d like life. Visualize the details to get you excited about your end re-
to physically experience in your life: put pictures on your re- sults, not to be your end results. Allow room for “even better.”
frigerator, your bathroom mirror, in your purse, in your wallet,
in your car. This is feeding the fire. Step 11: Get a little logical. Getting a little logical, or even a
little practical, is an excellent way to stir up life’s magic. With
Step 4: Until you know what to do, master what’s before logic you can map out or deduce where your next opportunity
you. What’s the alternative? Quit your job and wait? Until you may lie, you can go to these hot spots, you can calculate which
know what you’re going to do and you can do it, keep your day stone to turn over, you can judge which door to knock upon.
job. Not forever. Not to settle for less. But because quitting, ...continued on page 26...
to do nothing, would be most unproductive. And since you

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