Do you get Notes from the Universe sent to you email inbox daily?
Emails that say things like:
Everything is FANTASTIC, Erin!
Your life is amazing.
And money does grow on trees.
You're welcome,
The Universe
Well, I do. Sometimes I open up the email and I chuckle at the cuteness (read above), but every once and awhile I receive one that hits home. Like this one:
Erin, trust yourself.
The Universe
ps: Erin, you know.
I actually think I cried when I read this one. The man behind the emails, Mike Dooley, was in town over the weekend promoting his new book
And I went to see him. It was not a packed house, but it was a supercharged house and people were very excited to get to meet the man responsible for sending them daily love notes.
When Q & A time came around there was even one woman who stood up and said, “I love you…no, I really love you.” It was cute and he was gracious. Most of the questions to him were about fine tuning one’s intention-setting, or how could someone influence others with their own intentions. The last one I find hilarious when it comes up in a room full of woo-woo folks. Mike Dooley repeated over and over, “Just focus on happiness as your highest intention…don’t focus on the details.”
I found it interesting how difficult that concept is for people to take hold of…myself included. We want happiness, but we get stuck in a chicken-or-egg scenario (the most famous catch-22 of ALL time!) Mike Dooley pointed out that of course we want material things – we ARE material things, but that happiness is not a consequence of them. It comes from somewhere else.
Now I know this. YOU know this. But it’s still hard to accept and embody. And that the key is action. Like get off your ass and let the universe (or god, or elvis…whoever) meet you halfway or at the finish line, or afterwards at the post-game party. I don’t know when the universe shows up.
This is a search I’ve been on for awhile and have written about before here and here and some other places to, but it’s taking me too long to find them so these’ll do.
For me, I have 3 major goals in my life. Three things that I very much want my life to include. If I’m getting his message right then the key is you work towards each goal, but remain unattached to what the outcome of each looks like – you are only interested in achieving happiness.
Am I getting this right? Am I too attached to the outcome of this blog post? perhaps. But pressing “publish” is usually followed by a feeling of happiness. So there you go.
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