How to make wishes that come true

An e-book

I like my job. They pay me okay, I get to sit in a room with people I like and we have interesting and fairly geeky conversations. I'm lucky like that. Both that I like the people, and that I'm interested in the geeky things they talk about.

I'm happily married to a beautiful woman who makes me laugh and whose company I love, and I have a 15 year old son who is far smarter, nicer and more fun to be around than I probably deserve.

My friends are cool and I've been to some really fascinating places around the world. Basically, my life's pretty good. But I still like to wish for things. I think it's human nature to seek to improve. It's how we got to the top of the food chain.

Not so long ago, I was sitting in my office at work, talking about geeky things, and noticed just how often the word 'wish' was coming up in conversation. Wheels began to turn, and before long, I was describing an online wishing platform to my friend Stef, who is talented, smart, creative and good at making websites. He also takes a good photo.

Within 24 hours, there was something very simple online, and we showed it to people that we knew. And then they showed people that they knew, and within a matter of days, there were thousands of people making wishes.

But what struck me was the range of wishes that these strangers were coming up with. Some of them were witty and made me laugh out loud - and others were downright heart-breaking. The range of human experience was laid out on a single page. From 'I wish I had a duck as a pet' right through to 'I wish my husband hadn't died'.

And it got me thinking about my own life - and how that connects with all of these strangers. And it occurred to me that while a lot of the good fortune that I enjoy is a matter of pure chance (and I'm both incredibly grateful for what I have and very aware of how fragile these things are) - there has been an extent to which I have been engaged in a process of deliberately making my wishes come true.

So - inspired by the people who have come to isowish.com in their thousands to make known their private hopes, dreams and aspirations, I sat down and wrote this e-book, which I hope will be helpful.

I can't promise you that reading this book will make all of your wildest dreams come true - but I can share with you some of the strategies and techniques I've learned and developed over the years in order to make as many of the wishes that I can come true.

None of it is magic, and not all of it is luck. Sometimes we can actually go about making wishes that come true - and, if we know how, we can do it deliberately.

Big wishes, small wishes, vague hopes, lifelong goals. Knowing how to do that is, I think, the best way to become someone who, like me, considers themselves very fortunate indeed.

I wish that your wishes come true for you.

Andrew Dubber

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