GOOD VIBE UNIVERSITY Manifesting Secrets with Andy Dooley www.andydooley.com Good Vibe University www.goodvibeu.com Jeannette: Hey every one this is Jeannette for Good Vibe University and very excited to have Andy Dooley with us today. Hello Andy! Andy: Hello! Hello! Jeannette woooh!!! Jeannette: WOO HOO is right! I got to say there has been a lot of anticipation of this call ever since I announced it. So, thank you for giving us your time and sharing you expertise with us today. Andy: Oh it's my pleasure. I am thrilled to be on the line and I’ve been listening to some of the other calls and it's awesome you know, what you got going on here. Jeannette: Right on! Well, I normally ask everyone to give their own bio, I know everyone already knows who you are but why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself anyway before we dive into today's content. Andy: Okay, years ago I started a company with my mother and brother called TUT (Totally Unique T-shirts) and because we were putting unique thoughts on this T-shirts that were inspirational and uplifting we became Totally Unique Thoughts and we had retail stores and were doing trade shows and then we transformed into tut.com because of the internet. And so all along that journey I, you know, was very much into the metaphysics, law of attraction stuff. We weren’t calling it law of attraction back then. And one thing led to another and I have now become my own speaker, doing my own workshops, doing coaching, it's an amazing journey. Jeannette: Woohoo! So what were you calling it back then? If not law of attraction, what did you know it as? What you guys think of it as? Andy: We called it metaphysical. We just called it metaphysical new age stuff. Jeannette: Right on. So, I was just thinking about how I've met everyone except for your mom and your sister, so I guess I've met half your family. I didn't know you guys had a sister until she friended me on Facebook. Andy: Yeah! Yeah! She's awesome! She got married sort of young, not too young. She had kids and became a full time mom but she's always been into the metaphysical stuff. Jeannette: Is she an older sister or younger sister? Andy: She's a little older than me. Mike's the oldest, then my sister, then me. Jeannette: Oh my Gosh! Well alright, I can't wait to meet her someday too. Because I did have the pleasure of meeting you in person when you rolled through town, was it last year? Andy: Yeah! I think it was last year, we went hiking. Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 1 Jeannette: Yeah we did. In fact I just had lunch with Auretha today. Andy: Oh cool! Jeannette: Yeah! We had Julie Brock from Good Vibe University, Julie B. everyone knows her as at GVU. She was rolling through town so we got together for lunch today before she went out to the airport. And it made me think of you because the last time I saw Auretha for lunch was when we got together. So… Andy: Wow! Jeannette: Alright! So, what I want to ask you, I want to hear, I'm going to ask everyone else these questions, if we have time for them but what I want to hear first is about your journey and the evolution of your journey with law of attraction and deliberate creation. Andy: Oh my journey, my epic journey into the ultimate destination of vibration activation. Jeannette: Yeah and I want to hear the story in rhymes too so… Andy: Oh kay! Alright so, yeah I think back in the day I was very fortunate that my mother was a big reader and shared this information. Mike Dooley, my brother was always, you know the thinker, and like the why and how come. And there are many dinner discussions where, you know, the topic was about life and how does life work and why are we here, how do you create and why do bad things happen. And Mike was starting to formulate a lot of his philosophy and principles at that time. And, my father was a very positive guy. He is still alive, he's out in Colorado. He was an insurance salesman and he was into listening to Earl Nightingale and lots of audio programs and he had a whole team of insurance agents underneath him. So, he just had a positive vibe. My mom had a positive vibe. So, fortunately I’ve picked up on that. Jeannette: Wow! That's cool to be raised in it. Andy: Yeah! It was good and one of the books that I first … I started with Jonathan Livingston Seagull that led to Illusions and then Seth. Channeled material, my third book was channeled material. Which at the time, I could not comprehend at all. I could not read a sentence. I just was very slow to develop my intellect. So Jonathan Livingston Seagull was about where I was at and that was even tough. But I knew from hearing my mother and brother talk and my dad, you know, just to think and be positive. Just think and be positive. You know, don't bitch and complain. Then the other books that really helped me a lot, that really got me going was the Florence Scovel Shinn books. Jeannette: Was that The Game of Life or Your Word Is Your Wand? I can't remember the name of it. Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 2 Andy: Yeah both of them. I devoured both of them. I still think I have the original ones back in the day. This was in high school now, so I started reading the books in high school. So I used it to manifest chicks and parties. Jeannette: Why am I not surprised? I guess I'm a little surprised you said it. I'm not surprised you did it. Andy: Yeah man, you’re in high school. I mean what do you want? You want parties and girls you know and good grades, kind of, you know, you just want to pass. Jeannette: Yeah! Andy: So you know I had, so I started practicing… Go ahead. Jeannette: I am just so glad you had your priorities straight. I really am. From the very beginning, Andy knew it's about having a good time. Andy: Yeah! Truly! Truly! I visualized myself at parties, I swear it’s so stupid now but I visualized myself walking into parties and everybody going like wooooh! And it happened, I swear to God. In high school, I’d walk into a party and everyone would go crazy. Jeannette: But it still happens right? I mean Andy: Yeah sort of. Yeah I guess it does. Jeannette: It happens today. Andy: Yeah! Wow! Yeah see it's still happening. Yeah, I started doing it. I was just saying the affirmation and hearing the little stories you know that Florence Scovel Shinn would tell and I was like ‘Oh wow, I can do that.’ And I would just say ‘em and say ‘em and say ‘em and say ‘em. And I would really get good at the feeling. And I really associated music. So I would play music in my car really loud and say my affirmations and go to school and go to parties. It worked. So WOW. Jeannette: I got to imagine Andy that you didn't have a lot of friends who were practicing this too right? I mean because… Andy: No, none of them. Jeannette: Yeah! I mean, I think even today someone in high school might stand out as someone who is practicing this really deliberately and consciously like that. So, certainly it seems like you would not have had a lot of company in doing that. Andy: No, no, not at all. But I did because of just my vibration. I did manifest friends in high school who were just positive and you know wanted to have fun and party too. And so, it Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 3 was a match, you know, in that way where we were just always focused on the good and we didn’t focus on what was wrong and we always had good times. Jeannette: Sweet, alright so, that sounds like a pretty happy childhood to me. Andy: Yeah it was good. And then I fell into art school, really. I mean, I thought I was going to go to University like my brother did. And then it was like “No you are going to art school” and I was like Wow! Man. I’m going to art school. Is this for real? Like, I'm going to draw naked woman in figure drawing class and go to the beach and this is too crazy. Jeannette: And so you did? Andy: I did, I went to art school. It was just three years at the time. Then I got into Ramtha. I was reading a lot of Ramtha. I could comprehend stuff now more. I could really like, The White book, The Ramtha White book, that book is still amazing. I looked at it just the other day. Jeannette: Yeah! Classic isn’t it? Andy: Yeah! It's a really good book. So I was using that then I remember every day after my morning classes, I would go back to my dorm room and I would visualize and kind of take a nap. And I wanted to go to New York City. So I just visualized myself in New York City, visualized myself in New York City, I didn't have the money, didn't have no way of how to get to New York City. But you know, I really was just visualizing for the fun of it. And I also visualized myself having a red BMW. You know when I got out, it was like, “I'm going to have a red BMW.” I had pictures of BMWs. So, I visualized myself in New York City and then I’d go to lunch and then… So fast forward, I am now in my second year of school and the creative director for HBO comes to the school and gives a talk and inspires everybody about being a designer and what you can do with a designing career. And on a whim, they decided to have an internship, the first one ever. They’re going to pick a student to go to New York City for the summer. Jeannette: Oh boy! Andy: Do an internship and … Jeannette: The first time ever, like they had never done this before? Andy: They’d never done this before. Jeannette: Oh, this has got your fingerprints all over it, doesn't it? Andy: I know! I know! So the creative director said, “I'm going to be back in town for a short time. I only can interview the top 10 of the class. Like, who are the top 10 designers in the class?” And I luckily made the top 10. And he wanted to see your portfolio, your design portfolio Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 4 and just see personality. So I showed him my portfolio and it felt like it went good but I had no idea how it went. And then, you know, four days later they said, you’re going to New York City for the summer. Jeannette: Yiheee! And so, so you had been… well that was deliberate Andy: I think it was deliberate Jeannette: So that was your New York City manifestation, I am looking forward to the car one but I'm wondering so as they got closer and you could see it starting to happen. This is where some people get a little kinked up. Because then they think they see how it's coming and they get a charge on and like “Oh this is it, this is happening, okay don't screw it up, what else do I need to do to make sure this happens” But I imagine you didn't do any of that did you? Andy: Not at that time. I've screwed myself up as I got older. Like I develop a really serious problem. But at that time, I was still so much, like you know, college, riding my skateboard around. Jeannette: Trying to meet women. Andy: Going yeah! And I was like “Man, I got this, I got this man. I know I got this.” I am not going to say anything because in one of the Florence Scovel Shinn books, it says, you know, just keep it silent. You know, unless you are really ready to share it. So I just shut my mouth and just felt like “Man, I am so going to New York City” and I was like yeah man I went. I went to New York City for the summer. Jeannette: Right on! Andy: Yeah! Jeannette: That's cool, that's very cool. But that's certainly wasn't, but I mean, you probably weren’t too surprised right? Delighted I'm sure but you weren't surprised? Because you've been working this for a while in your life. Andy: Yeah, it was. Then I thought my Mom almost blew it for me because I remember the Creative Director called my house to really confirm the details of when I would come up and where I was going to stay and then I could be in New York City on my own. And then my Mom was really, you know…I was like, “Yeah, I’m ready! Let’s go!” but I was really clueless, I really was clueless. My Mom got on the phone with the Creative Director and she was Ms. Negative like, “Well, who’s going to cook his meals? And where is he going to stay? He’s never been away and I don’t know if he can handle this!” Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 5 My alignment was so spot on that the Creative Director was like, “Look, I met him. He’s 18 years old; I think he’s going to be fine. He’ll figure it out.” My Mom was like, “Okay.” Jeannette: That is a good reflection of your alignment. That would have been an easy way for it to get turned around. That’s very sweet of your mom; it’s just making me smile what a good mom she was being worrying for her son. Andy: Yeah, she was. Jeannette: Which was probably against most of her habits because she probably knows that’s not the kind of alignment that serves people. Andy: Yeah, so she was great. Jeannette: So, what happened next? Andy: So, yeah, I went to New York City. It was awesome! I had some amazing experiences. I got taken for all of my money in Times Square playing Three-Card Monte. I thought I was so cool. I thought I was a manifestation, I thought, “I’m just going to clean up here, man.” I got cleaned out, man. I tell a story about it in my seminars, in my speaking workshop. I got cleaned, man. I got my clock cleaned. Jeannette: Maybe you weren’t using affirmations for that? Andy: I guess I wasn’t, man. I just – I don’t know – I just got taken. But now it turned into one of my best stories. It’s one of my first humorous speeches I did for Toastmasters. I’ve made tens of thousands of dollars off of that speech. Jeannette: Really? There’s a way to put a silver lining on a story that some people might think, “Oh, there’s no good news here.” It makes it easy to say, “Hey, this might pay off someday in ways I can’t even imagine.” Andy: It truly did. I remember when I was thinking about it, it was like, “Okay, then I’ll tell that story at Toastmasters. I’ll make it a 7 minute speech.” And it wasn’t funny at first. It was basically – I thought I was so cool and I got taken for the fool that I was, and then I made it funny; made it a powerful lesson. At the end when I tell the story, “You have to forgive yourself. We all do stupid shit. Forgive yourself.” And I had to learn to forgive myself because, really, I’ve carried it around. That was part of me falling into my seriousness because I really thought I was stupid. Because my intellect was slow to develop and so, even when I was manifesting these things, I still really felt stupid. I was developing the belief that I was stupid. I really had that as a belief. I was stupid. I didn’t get it. I wasn’t good in the intellectual side. My writing and reading was really bad. So, I had this belief that I was stupid. And that confirmed it. That sealed the deal. “Yeah, Andy. You are a stupid idiot.” I didn’t tell anybody, I swore to God I would never tell anybody what happened and then I turned it into speech and told everybody. Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 6 Jeannette: You told everyone! Oh my word, how cool is that! Wow. So, at the time did you understand how heavily that belief was weighing on you or is that something that took a while to be aware of and rework? Andy: I did feel it, and then I went back to Art School, finished my 3rd year, then went out into the real world and started working as a designer, and then doing film production. Then Mike came down from Boston because he quit his job as a CPA because he wanted to do his own thing. He’s sleeping on my floor in Orlando, in my apartment, and he’s like, “Let’s start our own business.” “What are we going to do?” Well, we said, “Let’s try t-shirts.” So, I was the fun, crazy, artist man and he was the CPA, all serious. Then his seriousness started to rub off on me and then I started to get serious and like, I had to get serious, I had to now make a living, I had to pay bills, I had insurance payments and a car payment, and I just got serious. That stupid belief I had about me being stupid really sort of wound me. Then it was when I started doing improv comedy at SAK that I really had to deal with it because I wasn’t as quick witted and funny as the other ones. I kept coming up stupid and sometimes the other improvisers – I was like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer – no one wanted to improvise with me, you know, like, “Andy’s stupid and he doesn’t get it. Andy’s like…” and I was like, “Ah.” I really just got serious and that was when I started to try so hard to manifest and use affirmations to be funny and spontaneous. I was just getting so in my own way and I just got frustrated and the whole – I was just trying so hard. Jeannette: That’s what it sounds like. A lot of effort and not a lot of fun which is what you had led with before, right? Andy: I guess, I totally leading with fun and then I got all intellectual and tried to get smart and yeah. Jeannette: But then you really got smart, right? And decided it’s not the only goal. Andy: But then I did know – along the way I did develop my intellect, and I started to find a balance. Then going to the Tony Robbins seminars which were great but they also really – they had set such a high standard for me that I now felt like, well, I’ve done all these Tony Robbins seminars, and I had really gotten into Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson, and I became a maniac for this stuff. I was so disappointed that I wasn’t following through with it and I wasn’t doing my morning questions and I wasn’t meditating. I was just so pissed off and then I’d be so pissed off at Mike. Mike and I would fight every single day. If we didn’t fight, it would be a miracle we didn’t fight. You know, in the business we always fight. I just developed a really bad attitude and I was angry at him, I was angry at my Mom, I was angry because we could be doing better but we weren’t doing better, our numbers should be bigger and you know – Jeannette: And yet, you guys were still doing all right, right? It’s not like you guys were failing. Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 7 Andy: We were doing good. Yeah, we were doing good but I kept like,”Well, we’ve got to do better! We’ve got to be bigger! We’ve got to…” I just got serious. The fun got sucked out of me. Jeannette: Andy, without fun that doesn’t sound like Andy at all. Andy: Yeah, no girls, no parties, I just – and then I was like, “Ok, I’ve got to manifest a girlfriend.” I couldn’t manifest a girlfriend at the time; years went by with nothing, man. I’m telling you, it was tough! I was so in my own way! Oh God. Jeannette: How did this get turned around? Andy: The improv comedy really, I mean – because every time, every week, I go to improv comedy and I get slapped metaphorically around by them being so playful and fun and showing me how it’s done. Eventually, I started to loosen up because of the improv comedy. I had to; you can’t do improv comedy and be all tight. So, it really helped me get loose and looser and really see myself. I wanted to blame them but I knew it was all me. I knew it was me, it wasn’t them. Then I got into Toastmasters and started speaking and writing. And then I started – and because I could do my own speech and I wasn’t dependent on anybody else, I really started to have fun with my stories and make them funny. That really helped me going into Toastmasters. Jeannette: You know, what you were talking about your time in improv, feels like something deliberate creators experience as well, and that’s that, here, you were making a job out of it, you know, taking it seriously while the others were just kind of light-hearted and carefree. And they were having more success with it because of that lightness, right? Andy: Yes, yes. Jeannette: The same and deliberate creation – I know that a lot of people will be frustrated in that the stuff they don’t care about, that they don’t take too seriously happens really easily, effortlessly, swiftly, but the stuff that is a big deal, that they’re doing their affirmations on and their doing their pray rain journals on, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, isn’t happening. That feels very similar. Andy: It’s exactly, perfect. Great parallel, Jeannette, it’s right on. Jeannette: I’ve also heard improv is really good for deliberate creators for other reasons as well. I don’t have any experience with it myself, I’m too much of a scaredy-cat to do that, and I think it takes a lot of courage. So one of these days, I want to pick the brain of someone who’s a deliberate creator who has also spent time in improv to get the benefit from it. Andy: Every city has an improv troupe, you should go take classes. Jeannette: Andy, I remember when we were having lunch and you were telling me this story about Second City, and I didn’t know what Second City was, then you were just like, “Everyone knows what Second City is, how do you not know?” And then the first thought after Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 8 you said that to me, I saw it everywhere but it did make me feel kind of like silly but I didn’t know what something everyone was – Andy: Yes, you don’t know. But improv helps you stay in the moment. It focuses you. You learn to allow and accept whatever comes at you and make it work. There’s so many parallels in manifesting and improv, it’s like a perfect parallel, it is. That’s why I think in my workshop, did we play Zip Zap Zop? Jeannette: Yes, I loved that! Oh my word, it was fabulous! Andy: Yeah, that’s such a great game to get people loosened up and have fun. Let’s celebrate the mistake instead of beat ourselves up. Jeannette: That was such a huge, huge lesson. I don’t know if you want to take time to share it here but if anyone is listening to this, if you get a chance to see Andy live – do you still do that? Do you still include that in your workshops, Andy? Andy: Sometimes, I do, sometimes. I’ve got some other stuff which I do want to share on this call, the vibration activation process. Jeannette: Exciting. All right, let’s move along then. Andy: Yeah, yeah. So yeah, getting into Toastmasters really loosened me up but then I started having fun and then I really started to shine in Toastmasters. Like, I went to an improv but I started to shine at Toastmasters because now I was with a group of older people. When I would tell a story and give a speech, I would do the characters and I’d act it out and I’d be funny and silly and I can make my own points and so that helped. The thing that really kicked it, it kicked me into the right vibe that I needed was Abraham Hicks. That was it. Ask and It Is Given. I read that book and it 360d my whole world, I was like, this is it. I immediately started a meet up group and I didn’t even know – I was like, I’m not the expert but I’m starting one because I wanted to meet everyone in Orlando who does Abraham Hicks. We met every other Saturday and I put a little workshop together. It was fun and I did a visualization and I could speak and we did a rampage of appreciation and we all talked about the principles – it was great. Then I really sort of just started to get into listening to them, it just started to loosen up, and just some good things happened along the way. I started teaching my own little workshop for speakers but I still felt very lost. I felt so lost and confused, like, “What am doing? Where am I going?” I was spending money. I lost a bunch of money with Vikings Extreme – a hundred thousand dollars. It felt just like, “What am I doing?” Then this speaker came along, and that was like, “Cool, cool.” It’s the momentum started picking up, I really started chilling out, but the biggest thing I did was I just started focusing on the now and just feeling good no matter what. I stopped really trying so hard to be somewhere where I wasn’t and I just accepted where I was. All right, this is it, I’ve got credit card debt, I owe the IRS, you know, I really dug myself a hole. I really did, and Good Vibe University Manifesting Secrets 9