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2026: Goal Getting on Steroids

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It’s time to crank up the tension. It’s time to pull the bow string back, focus on your goals, release the arrow and hit the bullseye.

Over and over again.

We’re 11 Days into the New Year and you have goals you want to accomplish.

Thing is, chances are excellent you have never learned the real-deal, real-world process for GETTING YOUR GOALS.

Instead, you probably learned a method of “setting goals.”

Mark my Words: “SETTING GOALS IS NOT GETTING GOALS.”

You can set goals that are five, ten, and twenty years into the distance.

You can set goals that are BIG, HAIRY, SCARY and BOLD.

You can set goals with a bunch of WHY’s.

But if you don’t have a system for GETTING those goals – what do you get?

A big pile on NOTHING.

Even with the greatest bow and arrow in the world, you cannot hit a target that is 20 miles away. But you can hit over 1,000 targets over the course of a 20-mile journey.

To brag, last year I accomplished over 1,000 goals.

Many of them were small, daily goals – but each one of those daily goals built unstoppable momentum.

Toward what?

Toward BIGGER goals. Toward goals that would otherwise scare me into not doing anything other than sitting around feeling frustrated and overwhelmed at my apparent lack of ability to get anything done.

It’s time to turn goal setting around and focus on GOAL GETTING.

It’s not difficult at all – once you learn how the process works.

Yes, you can accomplish 1,000 goals with me this year – and look back at the end of this New Year and be in shock at how you made all your dreams come true.

You can be amazed at how focusing on the small leads to you having it all.

Or you can focus on the BIG and continue to stumble on every twig.

I know what I’m doing this year. I have a process that works on command.

What about you?

My Goal Getting Master Class is taking place next Saturday, January 11, from 1-4 PM EST.

Click here to ENROLL NOW.

Matt Furey

Are you still interested in reaching ALL your goals?

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“Everyday is a lifetime.” – Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics

“Live each day as though it’s your whole life.” – Sakai Yusai

We are now eight days into the New Year.

And by now you have a sense of whether you are gaining or losing momentum.

If you made a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions, something I never recommend doing, chances are they are already beginning to fade.

If you set a bunch of big, hairy, scary, long-term goals for the future, chances are you’re already feeling angst, frustration, worry, doubt and nervous tension.

You might think that resolutions and long-term goals are the keys to turning the tides in your favor, but there’s a reason I abandoned both of them a long time ago.

Why? Because they do NOT work for me. What’s more, they do NOT work for almost everyone.

There are plenty of reasons why resolutions and long-term goals don’t work – one of them is that they take the path of most resistance – which is unnatural.

When birds fly south in the winter, they don’t follow the highways. They fly straight to the target.

They don’t constantly flap their wings when they fly either. They don’t make flying harder than it needs to be. They get momentum – and then they glide.

Last year, using this same idea of “fly and glide,” I accomplished over 1,000 goals, many of which were goals that “made my day.”

But here’s the interesting thing. All those daily victories added up to some HUGE wins.

A new book and audio book published – Psycho-Cybernetics 365.

Another book written that will be published soon.

A couple new online fitness courses.

Passing martial arts tests that propelled me to a higher level of Guru status.

Feats of strength that I once thought of as “impossible.”

Breath-giving vacations in Alaska and Canada.

Greatly improved fitness, relationships, and much more.

Yet, in creating these results, my focus was not on the long-term, on the big, hairy and scary.

I follow a process I created that is called “Goal Getting.”

Not Goal Setting. Goal GETTING.

I created it so that I could flap my wings and glide to my goals, using the principle of “effortless effort” which is not the same as “hard, hard work.”

It’s far, far better!

And far, far easier on your body and your mind.

I’ll be teaching an updated and enhanced version of this system in the Goal Getting Masterclass I’m conducting this Sunday, January 11, at 12 Noon EST, over Zoom.

I held a similar class last year that sold out.

This year’s Goal Getting Masterclass will be far more detailed than last year’s Intensive.

It will include the biggest goal setting mistakes people make and how to quickly correct them.

If you’re still interested in reaching out and GETTING ALL YOUR GOALS in 2026, it’s probably a grand idea to get involved in this Masterclass to find out what I’m doing, so you can do it, too.

The fee for this Goal Getting Masterclass is currently only $197 – a major discount from the $1,997 that I would charge in person. And this early bird fee will go up $100 in 24 hours.

To get your online link to enroll, send an email to goals@psycho-cybernetics.com

The Goal Getting Masterclass will run at least two hours – but chances are excellent it will run over three hours, as it did a year ago.

And the reason it may go longer is because I do my best to answer all your questions to make sure you get it.

You will take a ton of notes.

More importantly, you’ll have a natural system that will glide you to your goals.

As a result, every day you will wake up and go to bed feeling like the WINNER you were born to be.

And when 2026 comes to a close, you’ll need a telescope to see how far you’ve traveled.

Again, email me at goals@psycho-cybernetics.com to get the link to enroll.

Matt Furey

You Get What You Pick

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Q: Matt, how big a role does your imagination play in creating the results you get in life?

A: You imagination is the hinge that opens and closes the door to possibilities. Your every action, including the foods and beverages you choose to consume, is governed by what you picture in your mind first, whether you are conscious of the process or not.

The setting of goals cannot be accomplished without mentally picturing various possibilities in your mind before you make your choices. The same goes for “taking action,” “working hard,” “working smarter – not harder,” and taking time to relax and unwind.

Without the faculty of imagination, school is not in session and no one is at home.

The faculty of your imagination involves you as both the professor, the student and the audience who is watching over it all.

Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365

What If You Don’t Think You Can

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Question of the Day

Q: Matt, what’s your take on the saying, “You can if you think can?”

A: “You can even when you don’t think you can.”

Hmmmm.

Ask yourself the following:

Have I ever done something I didn’t think I could do?
Have I ever failed to do something I thought I could do?”

It’s great when you believe you CAN do something before you start – but if you don’t believe you can, stay in the middle, be neutral with a “let’s find out,” scientific state-of-mind.

Chances are excellent you will discover, “You CAN even when you don’t think you can.”

Matt Furey

author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365

Your Cheat Code for Successful Living

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“In your mind’s eye ‘see’ not only the main event but all the little incidental things that accompanied your success.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

The details of a success experience can be relived in even more detail than what we had during the experience itself.

When we remember a success experience, we take in as much as we can currently remember, and then we can choose to zoom in, amplify, and enrich any particular aspect of the memory so that we increase the feeling of the experience.

When the feeling we had at the time we succeeded is uncovered, this alone is sufficient to activate the Creative Mechanism, but we can also increase the

feeling much more. We do this when we increase our height in the movie. Instead of seeing yourself at your current height, you imagine you’re a movie editor who can make you ten feet tall on the screen.

As soon as you grow on the screen of your mind, your positive feelings are amplified and elevated.

The same is true with the proximity of the image you see before yourself, as well as how soft or loud the sounds you are hearing are. If you move the image of yourself closer and you feel better than if the image is farther away, this is something you will want to repeat.

You can also play around with the speed of the movie, watching yourself move at supersonic speed or viewing yourself in super-­slow motion. Everything you become aware of in your memory can be expanded, enlarged, enriched, and improved upon.

Why?

Because you are not only the actor in your mental movie but also the director, producer, editor, and the audience.

Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365

Zero Resistance Living – the advanced course in Psycho-Cybernetics, will walk you through today’s lesson in illustrious detail. Get it NOW and you’ll have the keys that continually upgrade and recreate your life in a positive way.

Everybody Wins

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“Everyone has, at some time or another, been successful in the past.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

Believe it or not, there are people who will tell you that their whole life has been a failure, that they haven’t succeeded in anything. Such a statement is not only false but it is also an impossibility.

The fact that you are speaking a language is proof that you’ve succeeded in something. And if we want to dive

deeper, those who talk (or write) this way are successfully drumming up a negative narrative about themselves.

There’s no sense in arguing with those who talk this way. A far better approach is to ask questions that make them see how many loopholes there are in their statements.

Here are some questions I might ask:

How many years of formal schooling did you have? Did you pass any classes?

How many languages can you speak, read or write?

Can you walk? Can you ride a bicycle? Can you drive a car?

Can you eat a meal without someone feeding you?

Can you bathe yourself? Can you brush your teeth? Can you get dressed without help?

Can you comprehend a question being asked and give an answer?

Can you listen to a joke, hear the punchline, and laugh?

Can you see life itself and the characters in it as a clown show?

Almost anyone can answer “yes” to these questions, and this serves as sufficient proof that all of us have many success experiences that we overlooked or ignored.

Accurate questions jog the memory. They help people realize how they have hypnotized themselves to picture an idea that is not true. Accurate questions begin to dehypnotize you and rid your mind of erroneous mental pictures, false narratives and distorted stories.

Once these false mental pictures are removed or cast to the side, you can move on to the fun side of living.

Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365
Also, see Zero Resistance Living

Here’s What Holds So Many People Back

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“Good fight managers start a new boxer off with easy opponents and gradually pit him against more experienced fighters.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

In today’s quote from Dr. Maltz, we are looking at how success is created with far greater ease.

As an example, even when a boxing manager has a rare talent, such as legendary fighters Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, he knows it’s almost always a bad idea to throw him into the lion’s den against a Top-10 fighter.

So he starts the boxer out slowly, feeding him opponents he knows he can beat. And once the boxer’s confidence grows, the manager gradually gives him tougher foes.

If the boxer continues to win, the manager continues to move him along strategically, and within a short period of time the amateur turns pro.

After turning pro, the boxer, even if he happens to be an Olympic gold medalist, as Ali and Leonard were, his manager still feeds him opponents he knows he “should” beat.

The boxer does not immediately fight for the championship, even if he thinks he can whoop the guy currently holding the belt.

This procedural way of moving a boxer along is the same approach you can take to learning and getting good at anything. Start with the low-hanging fruit and make gradual upgrades.

Beginning weightlifters don’t begin with 500 pounds on the bar.

Marathon runners don’t begin with a 26.2-mile run.

Writers don’t learn their craft by beginning with three-hundred-­page books.

And artists don’t begin with the goal to paint a Mona Lisa.

The above illustrates how ridiculous it is when people who have yet to earn a single dollar in a business, setting goals to become billionaires.

This is not the way of wisdom.

A far better way is to start with momentum-building daily goals instead of frustration-inducing scary long-term goals. Begin your journey with the low-­hanging fruit.

Prove to yourself that you can make one dollar selling something. Then, increase it to two dollars. Then four, then eight, sixteen, thirty-­two, and so on.

If you were to pull off this level of doubling your sales on a monthly basis, within a mere twenty months, how much would you be earning?

The answer is $1,048,576 per month. Nothing to scoff at, is it?

Once you realize that a seemingly slower, procedural approach is much faster in the long run, you’ll want to use it in everything you do.

Give yourself mental pictures that inspire you instead of those that scare you. Give yourself winning pictures, not those that lead to losing.

Feast on the low-hanging fruit and it won’t be long before you can take a seat at the table of a five-course meal, and devour every bit of it.

Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365

In the Zero Resistance Living course – the first lesson alone on the Power of Imagination – changed my life forever. That lesson alone is easily worth 10X the amount for the entire 12-lesson course.

Little Things

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“By arranging things so that we can succeed in little
things, we can build an atmosphere of success that will
carry over into larger undertakings. We can gradually
undertake more difficult tasks and, after succeeding
in them, be in a position to undertake something even
more challenging.”
– Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

One of the keys to making continuous progress is following a procedural method of learning. With this method, you begin with the smallest morsel of skill you want to cultivate, including what may appear overly simplistic or too ridiculous to cover.

Dr. Maltz wrote, “Success is built upon success, and there is much truth in the saying ‘Nothing succeeds like success.’”

The sad truth is that many teachers and coaches never gave us a procedural way to create a series of small successes that built our confidence. Consequently, we may have felt we didn’t have the aptitude for success.

The good news is that it’s never too late to learn something you’ve struggled with in the past. You can begin to learn anything procedurally at any age. Just because you had teachers and coaches who couldn’t break down a subject for you doesn’t mean that you cannot find someone who will or figure out how to teach yourself to do it. You most certainly can.

This is why the first mental imagery exercise I teach many of the people I coach is an eyes-­open exercise where you picture the A, B, Cs.

When I first came up with this exercise, I thought it might be too easy, too trivial. But the results of it proved to everyone in the audience, including those who

have repeatedly told themselves, “I can’t visualize,” that they really can. They begin to see that thinking in pictures is not as complicated as they thought. This initial exercise created confidence, and from there even greater skill showed up.

Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365

Introducing: the 2026 Furey Nature Calendar

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It’s almost the start of another New Year. Can you believe it?

And I have a recommendation for you that is off-the-charts cool.

It’s the Furey 2026 Nature Calendar – loaded with exquisite photos my son, Frank, took all over the world.

My personal favorite is the Tibetan Yak, whereas other people love the clam-digging Grizzly Bear in Alaska, the Bald Eagle with an open-mouthed salmon in its talons, and so on. There’s something for everyone.

It would be super cool if you have one of these bad boys on your wall – or you get some for friends and family as Christmas gifts.

Click here to get yours NOW before this limited edition masterpiece is sold out.

Matt Furey

P.S. None of these photos are A.I.

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