Mike Dooley - Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!

These are the best emails I ever receive and are a spark for me at this time on this journey. Mike, this is a wonderful form of service that has chosen YOU.

Thank you ever so much for your Monday Morning Motivators. If you only knew how much I enjoy them. Every Monday I find myself gasping with disbeliefsomehow each Monday your motivators relate to every situation that is currently going on in my life. What a wonderful gift you give to me each Monday! Please continue to send them on.

When I first read [your emails] I cried. It is just so incredible to me to know that there are people out there, who I don't know (on a physical level anyway) that GET IT!

I have been receiving your inspirational quotes and words for some time nowYou are really making a difference.

You can never know how much your latest email meant to me. I am in the most transitional period of my life here on earth and your message was a gift. Thank you.

Just wanted you to know much I enjoy the emails. The words you speak are filled with TRUTH. The past few years of my life have been quite an eye opening experience as I realize more and more every day the unlimited potential that everyone possesses. Just having that knowledge is AWESOME! Keep the good vibes a-flowing!

Ive been getting the Monday Motivator some time now. Theyre simply great. Of course I create my own reality, and of course my mission on earth is to be happy and lovebut its so easy to forget and your messages are so clear and a great reminder to use during my day. Keep it up. Thanks for your part in contributing to the enlightenment of the planet.

Thank you for the positive energy you bring to my life.

I really do LOVE getting your emails they are so uplifting and when I have bad days, these seem to pull me through.

This is fantastic! You are right on the money with where I am spiritually at this time in my life! There are no accidents!

I cannot believe how many times you touch my life every week in a way that no one reaches. It is almost like you are reading my thoughts, my prayers, and wishes. Thank you for the uplifts, they are greatly needed and appreciated!

You had no way of knowing, of course, but your messages of encouragement and calls to action have helped to get me through a very difficult year. Thanks!

Thank you for the wonderful words, thoughts, and inspiration. I appreciate every morsel.

This is amazingthe way you think, the way these messages come to me when I need them most. My life is so negative lately, and your messages are the ones that prod me along, telling me to keep going and search for the happiness again. Its the next best thing to having someone so encouraging by my side.

I just have to tell you, that I love what you send me every Monday! I also get other inspirational/motivational pieces, but none of them compare to what you share with me.

Your thoughts are poetic and greatly cherished. You are a special individual with a wondrous perspective on life. I see the world through rose-colored glasses and its nice to know that others do too.

Thanks so much for reminding me that peace, contentment, and joy are already mine.

You are an eloquent master of weaving words not only into pictures, but into feelings of radiant joy and love. It is a joy to see someone in their bliss

May God be with you always as you continue to touch our lives. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, for keeping us company in our solitude, for giving hope in times of trouble, and for simply being a friend to all of us.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dooley, Mike.
Choose them wisely: thoughts become things! / Mike Dooley.
p. cm.
1. New Thought--Miscellanea. I. Title.
BF639.D66 2009
158--dc22

2008044307

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P REFACE

I n the late 1990s, shortly after the birth of the internet, the little company Mom, Andy, and I had started in 1989, Totally Unique T-shirts, or TUT, began collecting email addresses from visitors to our retail stores. Shortly thereafter, I sent out my first Monday Morning Motivator to thirty-six people. They were simply inspirational poems taken from our bestselling T-shirts. I never added any commentary to those first mailings; I just followed the poem with mention of any retail specials we were having.

In 1999, with T-shirt sales and our own enthusiasm declining, we decided to liquidate our business while we were still ahead financially, regroup, and reinvent ourselves. By the time this was accomplished, all that remained of our family business that had sold over one milion T-shirts was its domain name (www.tut.com) and a database of about 1,500 email addresses. Not wanting to let these go and feeling that the internet could prove to be a salvation yet, I continued sending out the Monday missives, but instead of following each poem with a deal of the week, I mustered the courage to add a paragraph or two of insight, expounding on the message and lesson of the poemand vo-o-o-o-o-m! The response was instantaneous.

Suddenly, I received confirmation from the voids of cyberspace that my weekly emails were actually reaching human beings, because for the first time in years of sending them, people began to reply with notes of their own, which usually went something like this: Wow! I hope youre saving these for a book one day! You have no idea how much your thoughts this morning meant to me. Im looking forward to Mondays because of you! Of course, as a free service that wasnt offering anything for sale, this was entirely a nonprofit venture, but I felt certain that I was on to something.