Deliberate Creation: Rewiring the Mind’s Operating System for the Life You Actually Want.
You didn’t choose the beliefs running your life. But you can rewrite them.
Somewhere between infancy and adulthood, a set of default settings got installed in your mind — beliefs about what you deserve, what’s possible, how you respond to conflict, love, money, and failure. Nobody handed you a manual. You’ve been running that software ever since, mostly without noticing — and it’s been quietly shaping every “coincidence,” every recurring pattern, every ceiling you keep hitting in different disguises.
Deliberate Creation is the manual nobody gave you.
This isn’t another vague call to “manifest” your way to a better life. It’s a research-grounded framework — drawing on real, cited work from psychology and neuroscience, including Bandura’s studies on self-efficacy, Locke and Latham’s decades of goal-setting research, and Eleanor Maguire’s landmark findings on the brain’s physical plasticity — for identifying exactly which beliefs are running you, and rebuilding them with evidence instead of willpower.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Audit the beliefs your behavior actually reveals — not the ones you’d say out loud
• Spot the “mirror principle”: why the same pattern keeps following you across different relationships, jobs, and circumstances
• Use specific, public commitment to change what becomes possible before you’ve done anything else
• Speak to your own subconscious mind in the symbolic, image-based language it actually processes
• Protect the small number of hours a day where real focus is even possible
• Treat failure and difficult emotion as data — not verdicts to avoid
• Build a life that’s congruent with your actual values and built on your actual strengths, not someone else’s blueprint
Every chapter pairs a clear, practical principle with the specific research behind it — and is honest about where popular claims (like the “10,000-hour rule” or power posing) haven’t held up to scrutiny. No mysticism. No hype. Just a clear, evidence-based path from the life your old beliefs have been building by default to the one you’re actually choosing.
Stop running someone else’s software. Start writing your own.
Author: G. Keith Engelhardt
Book Length: 84 pages of actionable transformational information and frameworks.
Together we will use a proven process for success