Success Stories

Jill B

I Want Something BIG to Happen!

Adrift at 24, I was living in Washington, D.C. surfing temp jobs to pay rent. As I was walking into Georgetown one day, my feet halted as an energetic surge coursed through me. Six passionate words arose: I want something BIG to happen! 

The statement’s ferocity startled me. I didn’t know what it meant, but it vibrated with absolute clarity. Shortly after that declaration, a woman renting the basement apartment in our townhouse came home and handed me a slip of paper containing a name and phone number. The White House was seeking someone to screen press calls for one of President Reagan’s senior staff. 

I had zero interest in politics, but I needed a job.  

What an opportunity! I worked on the second floor of the West Wing, directly above the Oval Office among government’s most powerful leaders. In addition to the many perks and privileges of that office, I catapulted from poverty to abundance.

When uttering those vague words just weeks earlier, I could not have imagined something this big landing in my lap. Political aspirants would eat their young for this chance! It was handed to me without effort. 

The magic of manifestation taught me early in life that if we claim something with deep intensity and conviction, despite appearances or limitations, without choosing the manner in which our desire is met, the Universe will respond with something far greater than our wildest dreams could conjure.

Glen G

Thoughts Become Things 

On December 24th, 2015, my thoughts became things when I purchased a health care company for $60 million with no money down and without using even one dollar of our own money. 

In fact, the company was transferred into our ownership with $60 million in the bank, which we promptly used to satisfy the debt to the vendor. Our own legal fees on the transaction amounted to more than $150,000, which were paid for by the vendors. In addition, we borrowed back $10 million from the vendors for working capital at a 0% interest rate. 

Our product was widely considered to be the best in Australia, with many wanting to be “just like us.” My wife, Karen, and I ran the company for five years before we gave it away to a not-for-profit, so that we could pursue other opportunities. 

My life’s work is now focused on helping people living with cancer to heal themselves of cancer. (Be prepared for a global shift in cancer healthcare consciousness!) Life truly is full of infinite possibilities! 

Annette L

I Wished To Be Creative And Change Lives

My surprising story of manifestation is built around my Notes from the Universe profile. My broad-based wishes were simply to “be creative and change people’s lives.”

I possess no particular creative skill, but in 2016 an inner voice prompted me to learn screenplay writing. I wrote two feature-length stories that flowed through me in joyful, divine-download fashion. After I completed the second script to the best of my amateur ability, I entered a very dark creative void for five months.

I was growing impatient in the discomfort of the void until, one day, I read something that resonated: “When you don’t know what to pursue, start with something that sounds fun.”

I thought, “Why don’t I take a filmmaking class?” The night I signed up for a class, an idea for a new screenplay flooded in and I began writing feverishly. I envisioned my teenage niece as the lead character and she agreed to experiment with filming a few scenes, just for fun.

I had never used a video camera, much less sound and lighting, and she had never acted. After we filmed a few scenes, the Universe hijacked us and clearly directed me to press on and finish the feature-length film. A thousand miracles and synchronicities ensued and after 2 and a half years, my spiritual-themed docufiction, The Third Path, is weeks from completion.

My journey of manifestation was one of radical trust. I poured an excess of time, money, tears, and an abundance of creativity into a crazy, hair-brained, directive from the Universe. I have yet to learn why this film demanded to be made, but surely the mystery will eventually unveil itself.

Lives have already been touched in the making of the film, but my wish is for many more lives changed once the film is viewed.

Cathy R

I Had A Deep And Intense “knowing”

In October of 2012 I had a deep, intense “knowing” that I simply MUST go visit my daughter who was studying abroad in Italy. I broke it to my husband, who did not understand at all why I needed to do this. I made the necessary arrangements and booked my flight randomly for October 22nd. I awoke that morning to calls from the University saying my daughter had an unexpected seizure and was alone and scared in an Italian hospital and that I should come. My flight departed 4 hours later. I spent the week navigating the Italian healthcare system and assisting with her healing, none of which she could have done on her own given her condition. While there I received inspiration and strength from my Notes from the Universe app, which I had also used to give me the courage to do this trip alone.

Upon returning, I simply “knew” that I must meet Mr. Universe himself, Mike Dooley, and thank him for carving the path so I could do what needed to be done to literally save my daughter’s life. Fast forward 3 years and there I was on an incredible WOW tour in Bali, Indonesia, on a boat, telling my story to Mike with gratitude and tears in both our eyes. Two life-changing manifestations and that’s just the beginning of many, many more!

Peggy G

My Desire Was To Be Financially Independent

I retired early, knowing I would have to have a side job and rent my spare room to make ends meet and be able to live the life I loved. I usually rented to students at the nearby University, and it worked out well because they studied a lot, so I still had my privacy. When Covid hit, the University campus shut down and I couldn’t rent the room. I was struggling and subsequently ran up my credit cards to make ends meet.

I always paid my mortgage on time, so when mortgage rates dropped, I reached out to my mortgage company to refinance in order to save some money. They turned me down, saying my debt-to-income ratio was too high. I was crushed and didn’t know what I was going to do about my credit card debt.

In January I took Mike’s Change-One-Thing Workshop. My desire was to be financially independent. A day after the course ended, I got a call from a young man named Matt. I had worked with Matt on my original loan, which had then been sold to my current loan company. Oddly enough, Matt’s name and number were on a small notepad next to my phone, but I never thought to call him because I figured if one loan company turned me down, so would the others.

Within 24 hours Matt got me approved for a refinance at half the interest rate I was previously paying, allowing me to pay off all my credit debt and lower my mortgage by hundreds of dollars. It would save me $1,000 per month, which was the amount I rented my room for. In essence, I would no longer have to rent my room, giving me the financial independence I had wished to manifest. I am so grateful!

Natalie B

I Ended Up Getting My Dream Job

I had been agonizing over the decision of moving back to be near my family. I was thinking myself in circles, making myself insane.

I did the 21-DAY Visualization Project and the 21-DAY Change-One-Thing Adventure, working on letting go. At the end of March, I called my mom and found out she was in the hospital (she’s fine now), and that made my mind up for me.

Once I made the decision, I put in my resignation and put out feelers for positions. Within a week, I ended up getting the dream job I had been trying to get for the last 13 years.

By the end of the following week, I had been invited to interview on my favorite podcast and had a home set up that would be perfect for me in the location I wanted to be in. Now, I’m just enjoying my days until the move and my next chapter begins. Thank you for helping me do this!

Michelle K

I Celebrate Everything For No Reason At All

I started as a trodden down woman, twice divorced, living paycheck to paycheck, doing secretarial work in Oregon about 2 years ago.

Since I discovered The Secret and Notes from the Universe, I’m now living in Los Angeles, employed as a top executive at Warner Bros., shooting a documentary for WB, and I appeared on HGTV because they completely remodeled my kitchen in my dream home here in LA! They MADE the job for me here at WB! It didn’t exist before!

Your advice, Mike Dooley, to just imagine skipping down the halls at work when things are tough… have now netted me two promotions in the same week!! I’m bursting with pure joy and am astounded every day that I could have gone from a knocked-down person in cold, wet Oregon to living my dream in such a short period of time.

I’m writing to thank you for helping me change my life. People look at me and shake their heads and say I’m the luckiest person they ever met. They are astounded that when I say I want something (for example, to get my kitchen remodeled on a TV show) that it actually happens! If only they knew it just takes baby steps and an ability to receive what you ask for, as if it’s no big deal.

What is MY SECRET to share with you? It’s reading the Notes each day, which I find take me out of my stressed attitude. My other advice is that I also celebrate everything for no reason at all! I make sure I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge at all times. Then, when times are challenging, if something goes even a little bit more positive, I go home, pour myself a glass of champagne and celebrate! It completely turns around the situation. And it’s amazing how many more reasons to celebrate come into my life, one after the other.

Luisa R

Cosmic Breadcrumbs

“It’s time to dust off that computer,” I heard a voice say in my dream. I didn’t understand because my computer stopped working several years ago when the graphics card broke. I trusted the message anyway.

The adventure began with my desired end result, a new MacBook computer. I started looking online, but nothing seemed worth the price. In fact, I discovered my old computer was better or comparable to the new models available today.

Then I considered repairing or swapping the graphics card, but both options required soldering, rejigging, and perhaps baking the motherboard in the oven. Suddenly I realized a simpler solution, I could install my old hard drive and RAM from 2011 into a 2012 model. Eureka! Now I was onto something good!

I found two listings on Facebook Marketplace, seller A was asking $700 and seller B was asking $400. “Sorry it’s been sold,” replied seller B. I had no intention of contacting seller A, because my price point was around $400. Then it dawned on me… negotiate. I didn’t need the upgrades, I only wanted the computer itself. I offered to pay $450 without any upgrades, and much to my pleasant surprise they accepted. I was ecstatic!

Taking action brought more clarity, and the path I started on was not where I finished. I didn’t know how it would happen, but I kept moving in the direction of my desired end result. The outcome was better than I could’ve planned and provided more benefits than I imagined. I didn’t need to understand the hows, I simply had to trust and follow the cosmic breadcrumbs of the universe, one step at a time as they cascaded from the sky.

David B

I Visualized Every Day For 5-7 Minutes

At the end of 2020, I found myself homeless, depressed, and living in a hotel on the generosity of friends and my community. I was at one of the lowest points in my life. I watched your webinar promoting the Infinite Possibilities Certification Conference and even recorded the part where you spoke of coming out of your own “dark night of the soul.” I watched it over and over. I began saying to myself, ‘If Mike can, I can, and I wanna be like Mike!”

For years I thought I knew this visualization game and thoughts become things, but I decided to place myself into a beginner’s mind and told myself, ‘Just do what Mike says.’ The conference was amazing and one of my small group leaders, Rebecca Psigoda, gave me some great advice: ‘Before you teach others, use the workbook for yourself.

’So I did. On May 27th, using the workbook guidance, I wrote down 3 things for my visualization: 

• I live by the ocean, and the beach sand is my front yard. 
• My IP training course is filled with people happy to invest in their growth and good. 
• I am debt-free and have plenty to spare and share. 

Every day I visualized for 5-7 minutes. I left it very simple, no real details except the location. I would just imagine myself walking the beach each morning and evening… (this was new for me as someone who creates custom guided visualizations for others that are very detailed).

Following Mike’s lead and the nudges from the Universe, I focused on taking the next step. On June 2nd, I finally got off my butt, and my second phone call resulted in me finding the perfect place by the beach — all without income proof, great credit, or any money of my own. I was able to secure this new place.

I now live half a block from the beach, in a location I never dreamed I could afford (they actually lowered the rent $100 per month just before I saw the place), and my cross street is Ocean Blvd. The sand blows from the beach up my street into my front yard! I am blown away — so excited, grateful, and thankful.  

Only 6 days after I started this visualization practice, I had my new place! 

Now, it’s a little further down the road and I have four seats sold for my first IP training, and I have no doubt that it will fill up and sell out! Mike, Team TUT – thank you so much for your grace, support, and guidance.

Shennan T

I Cured Myself Of The “incurable”

About a month after my appendix burst, at the age of 9, spots began appearing on my skin all over my body. They were itchy and sometimes painful. The doctor advised that it was psoriasis. I was sent home with a strict diet plan and scripts for creams. He said it was incurable.

The next 20 years were hideous as I navigated a strict eating plan while pining for what my friends were eating, twice daily application of creams, daily salt baths, drinking specialized chemist-made concoctions, and feeling frustrated and crying.

I remember being in my lounge room one weekend morning, dad rubbing cortisone cream on each spot for about an hour to get them all, while through the window I watched my brother and sister run off to the park across the street with our neighboring friends for fun.

During my high school years, I remember saying no to many invitations to join friends for pool swims, to go to the beach for the day, or to go out boating. I would sadly say no, feeling embarrassed with how my skin looked. I said no to so many things, and I eventually stopped being invited. A lonely life ensued.

And then I had enough of it. Like the kind of “had enough” that makes you reach DEEP and DEEPER. I wasn’t going to live like this anymore. Enough! I reached somewhere I never had before. I didn’t even know it was available or possible, and I went there.

In my mid-twenties, I saw a psoriasis doctor who made natural essential oil-based creams for psoriasis sufferers. I really believed in it and simultaneously, from inside me, grew an awareness. I cut pictures of skin I liked out of magazines, nice radiantly-healthy-looking skin. I remember choosing images that brought my cells to life with delight and happiness.

From that moment on, once a day, I sat in my office chair in a quiet room and looked at these images until I located the feeling of what they represented in ALL my cells. Then I would close my eyes and sit in that feeling for a while. I did this daily. This was my priority over all else.

Around this visualizing, I was applying the new cream to my skin morning and night. After each shower, I would stand in front of the mirror and (with love) rub the cream into the lesions whilst saying ‘Hello skin, hello skin.’

I remember noticing when it began to SHIFT! Within 30 days, I began to see the lesions dissipate and my beautiful skin underneath coming through. I began to see MY skin! In only 16 short weeks, I was psoriasis FREE for the next 15 YEARS!

Mary Beth M

I Manifested A Yoga Center In A Garden Setting

Dear Mike, 

I have enjoyed your morning Notes from the Universe and wanted to let you know that they have helped me to manifest my “yoga center in a garden setting.” I have obtained the loan, bought the big old 1955 building, and they are starting interior demoing this week.

I was stressing about how I was going to afford the buildout and reconstruction costs this morning when I received a message about the “cursed hows” from The Universe, and it truly helped me realign with the possibilities and remember that the Universe takes care of the “hows” when I am in alignment. 

Thank you for all that you do and all that you offer to so many people! Here’s a picture of the building, which is on an acre of land.

Michele C

An Easy, Blissful, Lucrative, Super-fun Pregnancy

Dear Mike, 

I was the woman at your workshop in Seattle who asked you, “What would you do about my desire for a baby?” Or some other unfortunate wording that made the entire room laugh.

At any rate, I was pregnant within a few weeks of that day and am now in week 19 of an easy, blissful, lucrative, and super-fun pregnancy JUST LIKE I’VE BEEN IMAGINING.  

Thanks so much for your light. Know that this little guy will grow up steeped in knowledge of his true power. What a gift!

Susan C

A Log Home In The Country And A New Career Adventure

I have to admit that I did not really “believe” until recently. When I first signed up to receive Notes from the Universe, I set two goals:

One was to have a log home in the country and the other was to start on a new career adventure.

I only half believed that either would happen, but they have both come true!

I have moved to a small town and am about to close on a log home. I also started a new job in this town that is just amazing. The turning point for me was when I wrote a letter as if these goals had already happened… then things just started to fall into place!

Diane W

Miracles Happen Every Day

Miracles happen every day? You are soooo right! At the end of the week, I was going to have to lay off a number of employees unless I could find jobs for them. The day before I was going to lay them off, I came in and sat at my desk and cried. Then I pulled myself together and asked for some miracles. 

OMG! Did I ever get them! Seven people got jobs that day. At the end of the day, one of my employees who didn’t find work came in to give me a gift and say goodbye. I told her, “I’ve been asking for and receiving miracles all day, let’s ask for one together for you for tomorrow morning.” She laughed at first. I told her to take it seriously and ask for a miracle with me. She did. 

At 9 am on Friday morning, someone called me out of the blue and told me she had my employee’s resume on her desk and wanted to hire her immediately. She didn’t even have to interview her since we told her she was being layed off that day. I called my employee at home and simply said, “You got your miracle, start work next Monday.” It was the best experience!

Brigitte F

I Dreamt My Moped Into Reality

I was born and raised in a small town in South Germany. When my friends and I were all 15, we got our driver’s licenses for small mopeds. Soon after passing the test, all of my friends got a moped from their parents… except me.

I wasn’t born into a rich family, but we weren’t poor either. The cost of a moped was too high for my parents. They told me, ‘Brigitte, we cannot afford a moped for you. Ride your bike. When you are grown up and have a job, you will earn your own money and then you can buy whatever you want if you can afford it!’

I was really disappointed and felt less worthy than my friends. I couldn’t cruise around town with them, because my bicycle wasn’t able to keep up with their mopeds. I felt like all my friends turned from teenagers to grown-ups… except me.

I longed to feel as independent as they did and ride like the wind with my own moped. For the next few days, I went to bed holding onto these thoughts:

• ‘I will have my own moped soon!’
• ‘Yes, I will… no matter how!’
• ‘Somehow it will come true, for sure!’

I didn’t know how I was going to get a moped, but I started saving money. I had saved 50 DeutschMarks.

A new moped cost about 1,500 DeutschMarks. Then I had a dream that a person I didn’t know approached me and asked me if I wanted to own my own moped. He asked what I could pay. I told him that 50 DeutschMarks was all I had. He agreed! In my dream, I bought the moped! I was so overwhelmed and excited. I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry tears of joy! In my dream I jumped around, took a seat on my moped, and cruised all over the country!

The next morning, I woke up and was still so excited, as if my dream were real. I had to tell someone, so I went out of the house and saw our neighbor, an old man, standing at the fence saying hello. I ran to him and told him about my dream, still full of emotions and excitement.

While hearing about my dream, he remembered that he had a friend who had a moped in his shed that he was no longer driving. He called his friend on the phone, told him about me and my dream, and this man sold me the moped for 50 Deutschmarks! Can you imagine how great I felt?! I was so grateful and happy. Of course, it wasn’t a new one, but the color was a cool green and it was running like a new one.

What I learned from this is that you must never feel like a loser or victim of circumstances. Go out and knock on every door! I didn’t expect anything from my neighbor when I was knocking on his door, telling him about my dream, and look how it turned out! Thank you to the universe! Thoughts become things!

Gretchen G

Holding a Musical Vision 

I thought of a story about a grandmother, mother, and daughter who discover the magic of how our imagination can become reality. It’s also the story of the power of forgiveness and reconciliation, even across time and space. The story is set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the little girl finds that her wishes come true through the power of painting. 

I began creating this mystical story and it became CANYON ROAD, the musical play. Over the course of several years, I held my vision. In 2018, CANYON ROAD had its world premiere. It was over the moon exciting, and a great example of how our thoughts become things.