Preface

Here’s how it happened...

I started off, and I’m getting ahead of myself here, by using the Life Summit process on this very book. I went through the process, step by step, of mapping out the details of my desires for the creation, publishing, marketing and distribution of this book.

Some very specific things popped up for me. I wanted an international publishing deal. I wanted to be able to contribute to and share control in the marketing and distribution of the book. I wanted to help as many people as possible with what I genuinely believe to be a breakthrough process that I’ve lived and breathed successfully for the past decade or two.

Of course, I didn’t have any idea about how I was going to make this happen. Luckily, that was not my job. All I needed to do was get clear about what I wanted...and things started to happen. Things came to me in what seemed to be a mysterious and inexplicable fashion. But was there an explanation? I began to wonder if there might be something more to this than meets the eye, more to this amazing sequence of events than mere coincidence.

I’ll begin at the beginning...

Firstly, I received an out-of-the-blue phone call from a friend of mine in the States who wanted to visit for a month or so. Joseph is one of my closest friends, a truly aligned soul and a model houseguest too. He is great with our children, takes the time to help with the chores and cooks a mean plate of just about anything.  So I had just one reaction:  Fantastic!

Joseph is also very social, so we went out on the town to an event I’d never have gone to on my own; something called Couch Surfing. Couch Surfing is an international online community of travelers who stay on each other’s couches as they travel the globe. We met a bunch of them on our night out including a lovely traveler from Los Angeles named Sheila.

Things were already unfolding for me.  Can you see it?  I couldn’t see it, but I felt it.  It’s precisely these sorts of amazing events that give me that little tingle, that little signature itch that lets me know that the Law of Attraction is
‘in the house,’ at work, and orchestrating things in response to my desire. It’s the best feeling in the world.

Could I have predicted what was happening, or about to happen? No.  I don’t have ESP.  I can’t look into the future.  Could I have planned it out, with an option for each contingency, meticulous in detail? No. I’m an Average Joe...or I guess ‘Average Tim’ is more accurate.  I’m just an everyday guy.  I can’t control anything in the world with 100% certainty, let alone the details of my own life. It’s quite the relief to acknowledge that and to let it go. But we’ll get to that later.

Let’s get back to the story.  Events were unfolding, each in its own way taking me a little step towards my desire.  I ran into Sheila again when she visited Joseph at my home a week or so later. This was the same day that the first prototype copies of this very book, fresh and crisp from blurb.com, arrived on my doorstep.  Sheila happened to be watching as I tore into the package and in response to her request; I agreed to lend her a copy for 24 hrs, no more.  I was feeling very protective.  After all, these were my very first copies fresh off the press!

Twenty-four hours turned out to be all the time Sheila needed. She emailed this message to me the following day:

‘I stayed up all night last Sunday to finish it and I am blown away. Thank you so much for letting me borrow a copy. It is the exact blueprint I need to take me to the next level in my ability to manifest what I want. The book is brilliant and is unlike anything I have encountered.’

Now do you begin to see a shape taking place, a tapestry slowly coming together thread by thread?  A few days later, Sheila and I spent close to four hours together actually running the Life Summit process.  This was Sheila’s comment when we were through: 

‘I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for going thru the Life Summit process with me. I am still speechless at how you were able to hone in on the exact 2 areas I was completely stuck in!’

She continued…

"I have gone thru The Life Summit process and it is life altering.  Can't wait to implement and share my results with the world.  Thanks Tim!!"

This was good news; great news in fact.  There’s nothing like positive feedback to make an author feel good.  But what was downright amazing isn’t what Sheila said, but what she did.  She got in touch with her friend David who owns and runs one of the most progressive publishing houses in the world.  It’s one of the few businesses that has continued to expand despite the recent economic recession.

Sheila set the stage, and David and I connected briefly via Facebook. He asked me to submit my manuscript via their usual process, which I did immediately. Why the hurry? I was eager, but just as importantly, I was off on holidays with my wife and needed to wrap everything up before our departure. A month later I was back in town starting to pitch various publishers with the intention of getting back in touch with David’s Morgan James Publishing as best I could.

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

Morgan James, the first publisher I sent the manuscript to, picked up the worldwide rights for the book. That’s desire number one right there – an international publishing deal. It turns out that Morgan James Publishing not only encourages author participation; they insist on it. That’s desire number two right there – the chance to actively participate in and share control in the marketing and distribution of the book. And desire number three, my desire to help as many people as possible? Well that’s where you come in.

My greatest desires for this book have come true thanks to the very process described in the book itself! Not that I needed any more evidence that this process works. I had already used it to get an ideal wife, awesome kids, my children’s books published, nationally touring stage shows, my own network broadcast TV show...  Need I go on? My dreams have all come true and my desires have all been made real in ways I could never have imagined, let alone forced into reality simply by my own efforts. In fact, when I lean back, get out of the way and let events unfold focusing solely on what I want rather than how to get it, the reality has turned out even better than my dreams. I love that...

...and I’d love for you to have the same experience in your life.  It’s the reason I wrote this book and am working on its soon-to-be-published sequels.