The Manifestation Formula looks like a great philosophical
and metaphysical book. What will readers
get out of your book?
I believe readers will find a new and practical technique
that will help them successfully achieve their goals by managing their
thoughts, choices and actions. The category of self-help, self-improvement,
positive thinking and the law of attraction programs is immense. The
conventional practices recommend techniques for people to use to help transform
their thoughts into successful outcomes, whether it’s obtaining something
specific like financial security or a lifestyle or wellness goal.
When I became interested in the self-help
category, as I was facing some personal challenges, the first and most popular
concept I discovered is the law of attraction. I got enthusiastic about the
promises about how I could achieve my goals. But like many other people, I discovered
that while most of the programs had great and positive advice, they never
really worked for me, and did not connect at a level of common sense and
believability.
My background is in communications and behavioral research.
I worked for 50 years identifying how
information influences people, how we learn and how we pursue our interests. I
decided to apply my professional research experience in answering a single
question — how do I transform my ideas and thoughts into successful outcomes?
I discovered two things:
First, most everything I read or listened to was based on
centuries of wisdom, but there was never a convincing explanation of how the
programs actually worked and how I could adapt them to the way I learn and do
things.
Second, there was one
fundamental concept that was present in almost all advice, but never explained;
the secret to manifestation success was to be positive “most of the time” - to
have a positive outlook, to maintain my belief in the success of my goals. But
no one could explain what I felt was the central point – if I had to have
positive thoughts most of the time, what did most of the time mean? If I had
any negative thoughts, was I doomed to fail?
I did my research, I interviewed people, I read and reread
dozens of books and blogs, and I reassessed people I’ve known and worked with.
I also analyzed what many people in public life have said about their secrets
of success, and it also was very consistent. I organized all the information
into a targeted concept of how we can successfully transform our thoughts into
successful goals. It is a very simple formula and is based on the basic math of
the universe that describes the statistical probability of everything that
occurs. The bottom line is that we do have to control our thoughts. And the
formula is simply a mechanism to ensure we have a specific balance between our
positive thoughts to our negative thoughts, to ensure that we are not
overwhelmed, disappointed and discouraged by our doubts, uncertainty and fears
which drive our choices, emotions, and actions.
How long did it take you to write The Manifestation
Formula?
It’s a two-part answer to how long it took me to write the
book.
First, I’ve always been interested in philosophy and many
aspects of metaphysics, and my research profession used many of the principles
of communications, influences, and human behavior. So, the personal and
professional foundation for my book is 50+ years.
The catalyst for the book was about 15 years ago. Someone
recommended a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer, Manifest Your Destiny. I was going through
my own challenges and I was looking for ideas about how I could psych myself up
to be positive, productive, and believe I could achieve my goals.
In the Dyer book, I discovered that he gave full credit to
the thousands of years of philosophical teachings about the power of our
thoughts and our connections to some broader universal energy or intelligence.
I didn’t know that I had always been a practitioner of metaphysics
philosophies, but that book started me on a personal quest to find a formula
worked for me. As I noted, I never did find a book, a writer or teaching that
turned me into a full believer. Thus, I started my own research to find a
method that would work for me. And the proof is that once I discovered the
formula for managing positive thinking with a simple feedback process, I was
able to proceed successfully. For the Manifestation Formula, I had notes going
back many years, and once I started writing, it took me about 6 to 8 months to
create the first draft.
Within two years, I wrote three books, was asked to do radio
interviews, joined an organization as Director of Personal Transformation — so
I manifested my goals of transforming my interests and postretirement career
into this new field of personal transformation programs.
While writing The Manifestation Formula book, I realized
that there was one more missing piece to bring the book to life. I’ve read a
lot of books, but a book alone may not be enough to help you reach your
manifestation goal. I also needed a way to put the concepts into practice and
to get immediate feedback about how I was doing. So, I created a mini-course,
with a workbook that covers the principal recommendations for the reader to
use, and one other critical tool, the Thoughts Scorecard. The scorecard is a
simple way to keep track on a regular basis of how you are thinking about your
goals and to track your levels of positive and negative thoughts so you know
how you are progressing to reach the necessary level of positive thoughts and
enter the successful manifestation zone.
What inspired you when writing The Manifestation
Formula?
Even before I started writing the book, I was always
fascinated and inspired when I would hear other people, primarily celebrities,
who were asked about the secret to their success - how did they achieve their
goals in entertainment, business, sports or academics or science? By far, the
most common answer was that the celebrity said that someone in their life told
them that they could achieve anything they wanted, they could be anything they
set their mind out to do, and anything was possible if the really wanted it. Many of these high achievers had some positive
mentoring and support, and they also had a clear focus for what they wanted to
achieve and remained incredibly persistent until they achieved their goal.
Why did you decide to become a writer?
I’ve been a writer all my life. I enjoyed literature and
writing in school, in business I’ve written thousands of reports, business
plans, proposals. And I have always read extensively. I like the idea of being able to identify
concepts in my mind and transfer them to a written format that clarifies the
concept, and we can share these ideas with others. I’ve learned so much from
reading thousands of books over the years, just as someone might watch a sports
figure or entertainer and aspire to similar achievements. In my case, I was in
love with great writing, and I wanted to find out if I could pursue an interest
in writing that was not mandatory as it was in my business but as a way to
express my own creative ideas.
How did you come up with the ideas in The
Manifestation Formula?
I mentioned that I'd read hundreds, maybe thousands of
books, blogs, listened to webinars and so on. But I still never found that
single fundamental concept that explained how I could manage my ideas and
thoughts and transform them into a successful outcome. At the same time, I’ve
been interested in many popular science developments, and particularly quantum
physics. As many people now know, quantum physics investigates how things work
at the most fundamental level in the universe. There are many variations of the
quantum theories, but fundamental principles seem to be universally recognized
-the most fundamental level of everything in existence is in the form of energy
which contains information about its nature. Everything in existence is composed
of the same energy, which can be combined and organized in an infinite number
of ways to create everything that we know. What I discovered, as many people
have over the past nearly 100 years, is that some of the earliest philosophers
and scientists, going back to the Greeks and Chinese, intuitively understood
that there was a connection between our human nature and consciousness, and
inner energy and emotions, that is part of and connected to something in the
universe. We are all part of one continuous field of consciousness or energy. Even
though we may not have the ability to measure or prove every metaphysical concept,
over the centuries, many of ancient observations about human thoughts,
consciousness have eventually been proven true by traditional science.
As Nobel Prize physicist Leon Lederman said, “to believe something
while knowing it cannot be proved (yet) is the essence of physics.”
Did anything stick out as particularly challenging when
writing The Manifestation Formula?
There were endless obvious challenges that are common to
most writers, but only one is worth mentioning. I had an idea, I was doing the
research, I was writing the book, but the persistent challenge was to really
believe in what I was doing. Was I pursuing a hypothesis or a fantasy? Would I
be able to prove my method by actually practicing it and manifesting my
goals? So, my research and writing for
The Manifestation Formula was both a project and a very personal effort to use
the techniques I was writing about in order to achieve my goals.
Where can readers find out more about your work?
My website is being updated, but it’s still available and
has the book information and more. It’s at:
or
The book is also on
Amazon,
both print and kindle.
