I just got off the phone with Al Diaz about the teleseminar we're doing this coming Tuesday, July 3rd at 6pm EDT.

Okay, I may have cracked, but I've gotten one too many emails promoting a so-called "Law of Attraction Accelerator" that was produced by an Internet Marketer with absolutely NO background in our science.  The main marketing message is "many have tried and failed, and {this guy} found the reason why."

This just came in my email and I thought it was significant enough to share with everyone who reads my blog:

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam . After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience!

The past few weeks have taken me away from writing the new book.  I'm about halfway through chapter 5, which puts me about halfway through the whole book.  Luckily, though, the second half always goes quicker than the first half.

I suspect that many of those who follow my blog are already familiar with Charles Burke of Sunny Japan.  Charles was one of my fellow speakers at Al Diaz's SOAR 2006 last November.  Of all the people there, I think I connected with Charles the best.

For those who are not yet familiar with Charles, let me introduce him to you.

I just noticed that it's been 3 weeks since my last blog post.  I guess the first week was spent primarily helping my mom through her grieving process.  Last week I got back into writing the new book, and this week was spent mostly taking care of some odds and ends that have been hanging around for a while.

The last couple of days have been particularly intense.  I've probably sent out more emails that any 3 day period for the whole year!

Last week, my mother called to say that my grandmother wasn't doing well.  Actually, she hadn't been doing well for quite a while, as she had been in a nursing home for a little over 2 years, and dealing with a number of issues.

But this time, it was serious.  In fact, they could see that it wouldn't be long before she made her transition.

Almost 2 years ago, one of my readers sent me an email asking if I'd help promote his new book.  I like to support my readers, so I read through his book to see what he had.  It was a short little ebook, only about 80 small pages, but he had a clear and powerful message.  Not only that, but his writing style was absolutely WONDERFUL!

I'm almost done with chapter 4 of the new book, "Choose To Believe", and it seems that every chapter has grown larger than what I had initially planned.  That's good, because it means that my readers will get more for their money.  There's not a single paragraph that isn't important to the overall flow of the book, so there is absolutely no 'fluff' involved.

Chapter one is always the most difficult chapter to do in any book.  It sets up the foundation for the rest of the book and requires the most thought.  Many authors choose to write it last, after they have written the rest of the book.  That way, they can flow with whatever feels right in the moment and then introduce it after they know what it is they're introducing.