Success Engineering
Written by Phil Gosling
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In the summer of ’77, a young man with no money or prospects unwittingly used just one ofrnthe ideas in this book to accidentally engineer his life, and thus he bumped into a very pretty
and petite 17-year-old girl. Thirty years, two dogs, and four children later, she’s still withrnhim, still his best friend. She had married a stargazer – someone who looks at distant horizons
and sees things others do not. She guards his feet and stops him tripping over things he can’trnsee because he’s looking somewhere else.
Two of the children are like her, practical, intelligent, sensible, fiercely loyal to their friends.
Two are stargazers also – dolphins of the universe wondering why all the other fish can’t seernbeyond the surface of the water.
If I said to her tomorrow that I was planning to fly to the moon, she’d give me the usual,
quizzical look, then get worried when she realized I was serious. But then she’d instantly givernme the encouragement I needed, when anyone else would have told me to wake up and getrnreal.
Everything I’ve done, everything I am, starts and finishes with her.
The original Internet version of Success Engineering was published in early 2004 and becamernan instant best-seller with well over 24,000 downloads sold worldwide, mainly by word ofrnmouth. This was before the huge success of movies like What the Bleep and The Secret. Irnknew nothing of these films before I wrote the book, but as soon as I saw them I shouted forrnjoy.
This was because I knew that the ideas in this book pushed science “quite a few steps beyondrnwhere it wanted to go.” In short, I was afraid of ridicule from real scientists – people whornhave forgotten more about physics tha
I ever learned. So when I heard serious and highlyrnqualified scientists like Dr. John Hagelin, Ph.D. (Harvard), Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
(UCLA), and Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., talking of exactly the same things, I could not evenrnbegin to express the mixture of joy and relief I felt at that time. And still do. Even though Irnhad sold thousands of books and received many emails from buyers telling me how much thisrnbook had helped them, the fact that at least three bona fide giants in the world of physicsrnwere independently saying exactly what I had been thinking has been a pivotal event for a
professional stargazer. And even though they might not know me or understand why, I thankrnthem for their own courage in taking ideas “beyond where others want them to go,” and forrnmaking me really chuffed, which of course is the main thing.
It didn’t end there. Engineering your success goes beyond the conscious into the very seams
and fabric of life. Out of the blue I heard of Bob Proctor and now have the huge privilege ofr
Success Engineering
© 2004, 2010 Philip Gosling. All rights reserved. 11rnhaving this hard copy version produced by his LifeSuccess organization.
As a writer I thank Jack Canfield for the gentle inspiration of his own life success, andr
Andrew Matthews, the million-selling Australian author of books like Follow Your Heart, forrnhis friendly telephone chats. Stargazers need company.
Finally, and most importantly, I thank you, dear reader, for also being willing to go beyondrnwhere most people dare to go. It’s quite a journey.
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