Book: The Art Of Influencing Project Success
Q1. Hello Sir, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
Hi, I’m Nicholas Ferguson. I’m a father, artist, philosopher, yogi, and lover of this life experience.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing ‘The Art of Influencing Project Success’ book?
This was my first book and finding a voice and believing in my message took some time. I realized the more significant challenge came after completing it and wanted to start sharing it with the world. My energy around it was not one of success. I’m improving this all the time.
Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
In no specific order. Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein. Max Planck. Buddha. Lao Tzu. Ernest Holmes. Esther, Jerry and Abraham Hicks.
I’m very selective about what I read and about the thoughts I take in from others. I follow what inspires my focus and attention. The people listed have inspired my thoughts and awareness for decades.
Q4. What’s your favourite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
I love Big Sur, California. I love the blending of mountains, ocean and the forest. It feels magical and inspiring to me.
Q5. Is there lots to do before you drive in and start writing a book?
The time spent before diving into a book is largely filled with thought games and coming to realizations of your own awareness. I found that it all unfolded with ease.
Q6. How long did it take you to write ‘The Art of Influencing Project Success’ book?
I used the Author Incubator program to help write the book since I had no clue what I was doing. Their system worked perfectly for me and allowed the information to flow smoothly. I spent about 12 hours prepping and getting the content aligned with their expectations and desired marketing, 12 hours at the keyboard typing, and another 12 hours through the editing process. It was all fun. I loved it.
Q7. On what all platforms readers can find your book ‘The Art of Influencing Project Success’ to buy?
Currently, it’s available on Kindle and Paperback. I’d recommend the Kindle version presently. I think the diagrams in the book are horrible quality in the paperback version. Likely to be fixed in a later revision.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the cover and the title of your book ‘The Art of Influencing Project Success’?
I painted the cover picture during the fall of 2019 when I was experiencing a period of extraordinary clarity. It is a self-portrait. When I completed the book, I submitted that picture as the one that best represents the book’s flow and concepts to me.
The title came from a list of suggested options that help market and sell books for first-time authors. I liked several others, but the editors believed this to be the most marketable of the options I presented.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself?
I don’t read or consume other’s content when I’m in the creating and thought phases. I follow my inspiration and emotional guidance but keep influence from other’s thoughts to a minimum. I must be inspired to read or listen to something during this time to do it. This selective isolation allows me to deliver my thoughts and perspectives with more clarity. The more clarity and flow I’m receptive to allows fresher content for any subsequent reader.
Q10. Are there any secrets from the books (that aren’t in the blurb), you can share with your readers?
For the past 25 years, my day job has been highly technical, including years of programming, system architecture, and design. I love abstraction, science, and philosophy. As I mentioned in the preceding answers, around August 2019, I began a period of clarity; some in the New Thought and Law of Attraction communities might call it a period of receiving or downloading information. This period started shortly after sitting in the Abraham-Hicks hot seat during a seminar while on an Alaskan Cruise with my son on July 19th, 2019. I began to see our (human) experience as a reflection of our (individual and collective) expanding conscious awareness. It’s a little like a mirror but in reverse – where our (physical) life experience is a type of reflection of our (nonphysical) conscious expansion. My love of science, philosophy, and system abstraction combined, so I translated these new thoughts into a formula that explains it all with elegant simplicity. C^2 * M = E = M * C^2, is a formula describing nonphysical awareness and physical expression entangled through a conscious source energy. My ideas came directly from Newton’s, Einstein’s, and Jerry, Esther, and Abraham-Hicks’ work blended with my understanding and ability to abstract and bridge these concepts.
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