This book and card deck is structured as a daily game in which readers randomly choose a card from the deck and then read the corresponding pages in the book. The intention is to broaden perspective, lift spirits, and improve the quality of one's life. Zen is the practice of presence, in which we are free from the conditioned mind's anxiety, fear, depression, and worry. Choosing presence over misery is impossible without the ability to direct our attention at will; without the skill of directing our attention to how we want our lives to be, we remain victim to habitual patterns of thinking that keep us stuck in suffering. What Universe Are You Creating? is a playful, powerful tool for learning the skill that frees us. Recording and Listening is a revolutionary tool for practicing turning attention from incessant, haranguing, karmically conditioned patterns of thought and action to the peace of presence. Recording in our own voice and then listening to kind words, encouragement, inspirational readings, favorite songs, gratitude lists, meditations--in short, being our own mentor--turns attention away from the constant stream of negative self-talk, revealing its illusory nature.