Mike Dooley, author of the New York Times bestselling book, Infinite Possibilities, believes in living a deliberate life based on our innate ability to shape our own lives and live our dreams through understanding and working with our thoughts, words, attitudes, beliefs, and actions. In a nutshell: thoughts become things.

If we adopt this belief, it begs the question, where do our thoughts come from? Our thoughts come from our beliefs and our beliefs come from our opinions about life, people, happiness, etc. Your beliefs shape your thoughts and, therefore your life. Our beliefs often get instilled when we are kids or from what we inherit from our culture, religion, or families. Our beliefs can be helpful or harmful, empowering or limiting. Although beliefs are sometimes invisible or hard to detect, you can discover your beliefs by paying close attention to your thoughts, listening to yourself talk, and observing your own behavior.

When you have a lot of negative thoughts, you have limiting beliefs. Your beliefs shape your thoughts, therefore your life. How you see and respond to the world is filtered by your beliefs. What you say to yourself matters. Our thoughts create our life experience, and our own negative self-talk can be our worst enemy.

You Can Change Your Beliefs By Changing Your Thoughts, Words, And Actions

• Install new, empowering beliefs:

• Choose a belief that serves your life

• Claim beliefs through your thoughts and words

• Act as if these beliefs are true every day. Actions suppress invisible, limiting beliefs while installing empowering ones

• Observe and dismantle beliefs you do not like and do not serve you:

• Notice when you frequently say things that uncover limiting beliefs. Then, change your behavior, thoughts, words to match what you want to believe

• Tell yourself why your dreams and desires are achievable and inevitable

The presumption at all times and under all circumstances should always be that you are good enough, worthy enough, and loveable enough. And, that you are exactly the right kind of person in the right place, at the right time. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have been instilled with such a dream in the first place.

The Power of Emotions

Emotions are the “secret hack” to manifesting what we desire.

The best way to start making a change in your life is to be happy NOW. When you feel good, you think good thoughts and you feel motivated to take action. I know, you are thinking, easier said than done.

• What are things you can do to shift your emotions to feel better?

• Practice mindful meditation

• Practice gratitude

• Look for hidden gifts in the situation

• Play upbeat music, dance, sing

• Move the emotion through your body — go for a walk, run, ride a bike

Taking action is mandatory for creating major life changes.

You cannot just “think” about what you want, you have to physically move in the direction of your dreams. Taking action is what creates possibilities, synchronicities, and coincidences. The more you do and try, the more the Universe/God/Life’s magic can help you.

You do not have to know “HOW” your dreams will come true.

Often, people do not take action on their dreams because they get stuck on the “HOW” to make it happen. You just have to get started by simply moving forward. There are so many ways dreams that can come true. Focusing on the HOW of one certain way is limiting the Universe/God. It does not allow for something better than you can possibly imagine. When we insist on the one “HOW,” we shut the door on all the others.

You only need to take baby steps.

Small actions can have big results. For every baby step you take, you are declaring to yourself and the world, “I can do this, I am doing this.”

Act as if.

One of the fun ways to take action on a dream is to act as if it is already come true or is already on its way. You could write a thank you letter for something you want to receive. You could buy the URL of the business you have not yet started. You could clean out the garage for that new red sports car.

Moving Into The Fast Lane Of This Process:

• Keep visualizing your dreams

• Pay attention to your feelings to understand their source

• Shift the unpleasant ones

• Practice listening and trusting your intuition

• Take on an attitude of gratitude for what is coming

Our dreams and desires are windows to the future of what “could be.”

By following our deepest desires and dreams, we inevitably help ourselves as well as others. Your dreams come from the infinite, and only by pursuing them can you give to the world all that you have to give and remain true to your divine self.