Andrew Dubber     

A couple of years back now (was it really that long ago?) my friend Stef and I made a website together.

It was called I So Wish, and it’s not online anymore (so that link won’t actually work), but when it was active, it was a nice little community of people who would wish for things, as well as try and help make each other’s wishes come true.

I So Wish was a really nice concept, and for the most part, it worked really well – and frequently brought out the best in people. Some incredible, generous gestures were made to complete strangers, and some amazing (and sometimes heartbreaking) stories revealed themselves through the wishes that were made and the conversation that followed on the site.

Stef did a brilliant job of the web development, and there were some great people who were actively involved as community leaders and enthusiasts who were very invested in the site – as well as some genuine commercial interest. But all the same, life sort of got in the way, and neither Stef nor I could really actively sustain and promote it and we both had other things to focus on.

Additionally, a friend of mine who we had asked to come on board as a community manager tragically died as a result of a life-long illness, and shortly thereafter, we decided to let the website close.

The how-to guide for wishing
While we were running the site, I wrote a companion piece – a sort of a ‘self-help’ style ebook about making wishes that come true. It was called, unsurprisingly, How to make wishes that come true.

While clearly an attempt to cash in on our wish-making public (or, if you prefer, make the site a little more financially sustainable) – the book’s neither as cynical, nor as wishy-washy as it sounds, and nor is it as flakey as most of the quasi-self-help ‘spiritual greed’ nonsense that tends to be inexplicably popular in bookstores these days.

Neither Stef nor I would put our name to something that we weren’t actually proud to be associated with – so inasmuch as that represents a mark of quality, there’s that.

Essentially, the premise is that simply closing your eyes and hoping the universe will do your bidding is pretty much delusional – but there are simple and practical things that you can do to help you achieve the things you want in life.

We released it as a sort of sideline to the website, but it occurs to me that since the demise of I So Wish, the book is effectively ‘out of print’ now (or whatever the digital equivalent of ‘out of print’ might be).

So what with all sorts of advances in the world of digital publishing recently I’ve decided to make it available again – in every ebook format imaginable – for your Kindle, your iPad or your desktop. It’ll be available via Amazon, in the iBook Store and elsewhere from next week.

But since you’re a reader of my blog, I’d like you to have it for free.

Get your free copy now
If you go to the book’s page on Smashwords (the service I’ve used to create the downloads), you’ll find it’s for sale for US$4.99 – but take the following discount coupon code and download the book for free:

Just copy that code and paste it into the appropriate box prior to completing your checkout (or remember it and type it in), and that will let you grab the book in whatever format you want at a 100% discount.

The code is valid until the end of September – and you should feel free to tell any of your friends that might find it useful or interesting.

Hope you enjoy it in whatever format you choose to read it in.

Tagged: Goals, Internet, Self-help