Playing the Matrix: A Program for Living Deliberately and Creating Consciously

by Mike Dooley

Avoid self-sabotage through achieving greater clarity

You’re not here, in these hallowed jungles of time and space, by accident.

You perform magic and miracles, day in and day out, without notice or thought.

Humbly, if naively, physically move in the desired direction.

It’s one kind of victory to slay a beast, move a mountain, and cross a chasm, but it’s another kind altogether to realize that the beast, the mountain, and the chasm were of your own design.

Any desired end result held in our minds will strive to force the physical details, laws, and circumstances necessary for it to emerge into our life.

Journeys unfold as you pursue whatever happiness means to you—the whole, entire point of being alive in the jungles of time and space!

Action is how you navigate in the continuity soup of the here and now.

Like attracts like, and those people who have dreams complementary to those of your changing mind will then appear.

Let these pieces of the puzzle effortlessly show up as you merely hold on to your vision and physically move in its direction,

The formula for creating change begins with intent. Your intent. Your chosen focus.

The Universe hears every word we speak. Our words are our end results!

The end in mind forces the details. Thought forces circumstance. You simply have to dream and show up. And perhaps, let’s add, have faith.

In life, if you have a dream that thrills you, that you don’t physically do something about, you short-circuit the so-called miracles.

You are a streaming manifestor. Worry not how you do this, just notice that you do.

Things do not become thoughts. Right? And thus, there’s no assurance (and little chance) of those successes alone making you happy.

Used like this, a vision board is “rocket fuel” for greater clarity, more excitement, and therefore faster manifestations,

Why weren’t we ever just taught to “Wish for the best of all involved,”

Dwell on the left, dabble on the right.

Your end results should not be dependent on specific people, paths, and details, nor upon specific timelines.

The need to micromanage one’s life stems from a failure to understand life’s magic.

Talk about pressure—we’ve carried the weight of the world on our shoulders! Why? Because we’ve confused the means with the end; the hows for our dreams!

The Universe is loving and lenient. It allows for massive wiggle room.

Life is about living a grand and full adventure on all fronts.

Let your highest life priorities for change help you choose where to begin.

You live in a holographic universe, smoke and mirrors. Matter is not matter. Everything is affected by your thoughts.

There’s always an infinite number of possibilities until you attach to an unimportant detail—and all details are unimportant.

The only thing that is perhaps new to you is the notion that you need to leave room for even better than the details you’ve imagined, which is impossible if you are insisting on the old.

When details become end results, you’re actually messing with the cursed hows.

Realize for every little step you take, you increase, exponentially, what the Universe can do for you.

Choose to see your baby steps as how you’ll put yourself within reach of life’s magic.

taking action breeds clarity. A clarity that could not have come in any other way than for the steps I was taking.

We don’t usually know about most miracles until long after they happen. This is where faith, through understanding, comes in.

keep on keeping on, no matter where we are.

The train of my life never crashed. It just came to an abrupt standstill, so that it could change tracks,

Even our own fears and negativity can’t stop us when we learn who we really are and all we’re capable of doing.

all setbacks are setups for greatness; self-arranged gifts, sometimes wrought of “chaos,” that can take us higher than we could have gone without them.

Thinking big but acting small is the same as thinking small. Want to know if your thoughts are in congruence with a dream? They are if you’re physically doing something about them on a very regular basis.

When you visualize with emotion, you create and send a very real energy from within that transcends and goes beyond the curtains of time and space, beyond where eyes can see.

You’re of the Divine. You’re here to thrive.

Getting playful pays big dividends!

Where you are is never who you are. You’re unimaginably more.

A tip on legend making: Do what you most want to do and do it your way.

Today is as good as it gets in the jungles of time and space.

You already have every reason, TODAY, to be happy, in spite of your circumstances. Right now.

Happiness does not mean you’ve settled for less; it signals you’re ready for more.