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Going through Hell

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To get healthier you may have to go through hell, and usually more than once. It can be a daily grind. The rewards are worth it, though, because if you say, “To hell with my health,” chances are grave that you’ll get burned.

Matt Furey

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A Question About Psy-Ops

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Dear Matt,

Do you think that much of what we see in the news today is nothing but a series of psy-ops?

Ella Vator

Dear Ella,

I don’t watch the news. Instead I sit quietly, look straight ahead, inhale deeply and let out peaceful sighs. I engage in this daily sigh-op for a good 15 minutes, at least once each day. Sitting, sighing and seeing a positive future will get you high on life, even when everything appears to be a downer.

Matt Furey

Want to create more, write more and be more – regardless of your age or any other factors? Well, I’m currently gearing up for an all-new Intensive – Creatively Writing for Your Life, and for More Life – and/or for More Money – to be held April 11 at 1 PM EST, with a brilliant friend who is waaaay older than me (I’m almost 63), and he has no intention of ever slowing down. He’s a role model for me, and I’m certain the two of us together over Zoom will inspire you beyond belief. Drop me an email at goals@psycho-cybernetics.com to receive the information to enroll.

Just for Fun

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When you were a lot younger and intuitively smarter, you did almost everything you were allowed to do, “just for fun.”

You colored for fun. You built things for fun. You played games for fun.

Then a funny thing happened. The good times got twisted. Work became the prevailing notion, with no emphasis on fun, and in some ways, an intolerance for it.

A good friend of mine, who left the college scene after years of being a professor, told me that everything he has ever done that succeeded, he did “just for fun.”

Luck followed and accompanied him wherever he went.

Interesting, isn’t it?

When you take the fun out of life, life becomes one big, bad joke. Upon YOU.

This is why it’s so important to rekindle an Inner Smile and an Inner Laugh, to start your day. It’s why you look for things to be happy about and grateful for.

Even more, though, you remember and return to doing what you did earlier in life, when you were creating something “just for fun.” Only this time, no one is punishing you for doing so. You are free to be.

Start with one thing. Re-engage. Reconnect.

Take back that part of yourself that got replaced by the drab and the dreary.

Find that spark once again and keep it close.

Doing so will change your life for the better.

Matt Furey

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Friday Finisher #5

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Success experts tell us we need to have big, scary, long-range goals. They tell us we need at least one long-range goal in five different areas of our lives, but preferably five.

These same experts then tell us to live in the present moment because that’s where the power is. Oh, and let’s not forget, they also tell us to focus on one thing at a time.

Confused?

The power of daily goals is an unstoppable force. When you focus your mind and accomplish what you set out to do each day, you build momentum toward larger objectives without trying.

Smooth, relaxed, effortless effort crushes the stiff robotic try harder approach.

Relax, move and win. Triumph without the try or the oomph.

Matt Furey

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A Note from My Notebook

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From my notebook… 8/11/2023

“I set out on numerous occasions to get rid of my enormous ego. I tried and I tried, failing every time. And I couldn’t figure out why. Then one day, everything calmed down when I successfully added another ego, an alter ego, who told me to ‘keep em both,’ because… his ego has no ego.”

Matt Furey

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When to Tell Everyone About Your Goals

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It took a long time for me to learn this lesson. I would come up with a goal, get excited about it, then make the mistake of telling everyone about it.

But what a minute?

Isn’t announcing your goal to others one of the keys to making it happen?

It can be, if you’re talking to those who can and will support and guide you, otherwise it is often a monumental mistake.

One of the perils of announcing your goals to “everyone” is the fact that there are many who will feign outward applause and support while secretly hoping you fail.

These people will clap their hands and tell you that your goal is great, that your accomplishment will be a “slam dunk,” that you’re a genius and so on. Afterward, for some strange reason, all the wind that was pushing your sail along the seas reverses course and you feel disempowered.

This negative feeling lets you know that the creation you had in mind is being countered.

When you are an advanced creator, you can override the negativity of others. You can even use other peoples’ doubts and projections to propel your vessel forward.

But when you’re starting out, the unforeseen negativity can derail you. So you are wise to “zip the lip,” to only confide in those who are proven winners who want to see you succeed.

Over 30 years ago, I announced a goal I had to some people I was coaching. Afterward I sensed that my energy for the goal had been swiped. I was perplexed.

In a discussion about this situation with one of my clients, who happened to be a published author, among many other accomplishments, he said:

“It’s like you have all these invisible birds around you that are energizing you and giving you ideas, but as soon as you tell everyone about them, they fly away.”

If you insist on telling the world what your goals are, consider doing so silently as a test. Notice if the energy within you grows when you only tell those who you know are on your side.

Silence is golden, and for many good reasons.

Matt Furey

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Friday Finisher #4

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Ask yourself:

Do I tend to make something simple more difficult than it needs to be? If so, what’s the payoff in doing this?

How can I take something that is “hard work” and make it easier as well as better?

Your answers to these questions will expand your horizons and your skills.

Matt Furey

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Why I Became a Lefty and a Right

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Some people are forced to use their right hand. I forced myself to use my left and doing so put me into my right mind. I became a child again; a beginner again.

I began with brushing my teeth, then shaving, then writing in cursive.

After this I took up bowling left-handed.

Surprisingly, after six months, my left-handed bowling skills were superior to my right.

How could this be?

Your brain is neuroplastic; and much more so than you can imagine. There’s much about yourself that has never been tapped because you never give the other side of you a chance.

If you’re ever caught up and confused, give the other side of you a chance. If you’re a righty, veer left. If you’re a lefty, swerve to the right.

Your brain will thank you for it.

It’s also how you can become a lefty and still be a write-tee without veering into politics.

Matt Furey

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Give Up Trying

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“When you give up trying your trials are over. It’s the doing that makes you a DOER.”

Matt Furey

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What Your Inner Face Says About You

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A few days ago someone told me he just learned how to recognize a psychopath.

The method is simple. You look at the forehead to see if there are any wrinkles. If there aren’t any wrinkles, the person has no empathy, and if someone has no empathy, he or she could be “nuts.”

Will this wrinkle-reading method apply to young children? I don’t think so.

And do wrinkles on the forehead prove someone is NOT a psychopath? I doubt it.

But in some cases, how you wrinkle up can be an indicator. For example, if you smile a lot, this can often show up as “crow’s feet.”

Determining who is good and who isn’t just by their wrinkles is an intriguing subject, and it’s not new. In Ancient China, the practice was called xiang mian (相面), or “face reading.”

There is also something called phrenology, the study of bumps on the skull and what they reveal about a person’s character.

Being a plastic surgeon, what did Dr. Maltz think about this subject. Not much.

Personally, I studied Chinese face reading over 30 years ago. I especially enjoyed learning that if you have protruding ears it is a sign of great musical talent and ability.

My ears protrude much further than the norm, and yet my musical talents remain latent. As for superstar musicians, I’ve seen plenty whose ears don’t protrude at all.

Another good one is whether or not you have prominent cheekbones, something frowned on in China but considered glamorous in the west. I looked at the cheekbones of our politicians. Some, such as Hillary Clinton, have bulbous cheeks – others, not much at all.

Then I looked at chins. A big chin supposedly means you aren’t sensitive to criticism and can “take one on the chin.” Jay Leno has the biggest chin I’ve ever seen, does that mean he is immune to criticism? Or that he can get struck with a prize fighter’s knockout blow and laugh it off?

It’s interesting and intriguing to learn about these ideas, but a much bigger factor, the factor that determines your future is your self-image – what you are picturing on the screen of your mind.

Altering and adjusting how you see yourself is the most important ball game of them all because the external is a reflection of the internal.

Focus on the inner and the outer will take care of itself. What your inner face says about you will show up on that outside, revealing what was on your mind.

Matt Furey

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