Matthew Cossolotto Author of Harness Your PromisePower Spotlights Times LA Feature on Jack Canfield’s Foreword to His New Book

NEW YORK, USA, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

Author and speaker Matthew Cossolotto announced that Times LA has published a feature examining Jack Canfield’s foreword to Cossolotto’s new book, Harness Your PromisePower.

The Los Angeles-based publication notes that Canfield has spent decades studying achievement, purpose, and human potential, while inspiring millions through the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, The Success Principles, and other personal empowerment bestsellers. Canfield’s enthusiastic endorsement has helped to generate widespread media interest in Cossolotto’s book, resulting in a flurry of high-profile articles and interviews with the author.

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Canfield’s foreword examines the role of promises in personal achievement and includes the story of a promise that influenced his own career.

The Times LA, an independent publication founded in 2018 that focuses on entrepreneurship, lifestyle, fashion, and travel – published a feature article spotlighting Jack Canfield’s “extensive and revealing” foreword to Matthew Cossolotto’s new book, Harness Your PromisePower.

The Times LA article notes that Canfield has spent decades studying achievement, purpose, and human potential, while inspiring millions through the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, The Success Principles, and other personal empowerment bestsellers. He has seen countless self-help trends come and go over the years. Armed with that background, Canfield describes in his foreword that the concept of PromisePower immediately stood out to him as uniquely powerful.

“When Matthew first told me about the heartfelt promise he made to his mother and that he was launching a special day called ‘Make a Promise Day’ on May 4th, I was hooked. You could say he had me at ‘I promise.’ There was something very attractive, almost magnetic, about this concept. And I say that as somebody who has been intimately involved in the personal development field for many years. I’ve seen and heard just about everything.”

According to the Times LA feature story, perhaps the most memorable part of Canfield’s foreword is the deeply personal promise story. He reveals the purpose-defining promise he made to God age 27. Canfield writes: “I promised I would spend the rest of my life learning and teaching others about wisdom and love.”

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That promise led him to collect inspirational stories that eventually became Chicken Soup for the Soul, a publishing phenomenon that has grown to more than 250 titles, over 610 million copies in print, and translations into at least 43 languages.

“There truly is something special about a promise,” Canfield writes in his foreword, “and I congratulate Matthew for shining a spotlight on this unique power through this book, his speeches, and his workshops.”

In addition to Canfield’s foreword, Harness Your PromisePower features promise stories and insights from respected leaders and famous personalities, including Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins, Lewis Howes, Todd Newton, John Assaraf, Marques Ogden, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lisa Nichols, Brendon Burchard, and others.

Best-selling author John Assaraf shares a poignant promise story in the book and explains why the PromisePower concept resonates so strongly with him. “There is something uniquely powerful about making a promise that goes beyond traditional goal setting. We are neurologically wired to keep our promises.”

The Times LA story also explains that Cossolotto’s Harness Your PromisePower is deeply rooted in a life-changing promise. More than twenty-five years ago, the author promised his dying mother that he would complete the book she had encouraged him to write and dedicate it to her memory. She looked up at him and said: “You do that, Matthew. You do that. This makes me very happy.” Cossolotto kept that promise.

The article continues: “That make-or-break promise put him on his current path as an author, speaker, and coach. Today, Cossolotto speaks to audiences about his book, The Joy of Public Speaking, the habits of SUCCESS, and PromisePower. His work also includes the creation of Make a Promise Day, observed on May 4, encouraging people everywhere to make meaningful promises that improve their lives and strengthen their integrity.”

About Matthew Cossolotto

Matthew Cossolotto’s personal empowerment trilogy includes the award-winning The Joy of Public Speaking, published in 2021; Harness Your PromisePower and the forthcoming Harness Your HabitForce, which highlights the seven habits of FAILURE and the equal-but-opposite habits of SUCCESS. He also offers a lineup of Personal Empowerment Programs (PEPTalks) that are animated by a core concept: Success is an inside job.

Before becoming an author and speaker, Cossolotto served as a speechwriter for senior officials at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Chancellor of UCLA, Fortune 100 executives, and as an aide to former Congressman Leon Panetta.

To learn more about Matthew Cossolotto and his books and speaking programs:

For more information: MatthewCossolotto.com and TheEmpowermentPro.com

Connect with the author on: LinkedIn, Bluesky, X-Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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