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New Years Eve in July

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“Indignation and anger can sometimes act as liberators from false ideas.”
-Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Take yourself back in time… to New Year’s Eve of this past year.

In a second you are back to where you were, observing what you were thinking, what you were doing… a mere seven months ago.

Chances are you were optimistic, looking forward to what a great year it was going to be. You were focused and ready to make something great happen.

For many people, this optimism and enthusiasm is at an all-time high… for a few weeks, and then it gradually begins to wane.

And the reason it wanes is because people lose sight of their goals and the necessary actions that will lead to positive results. In many cases, the goals that were selected were too big, too soon. And the size of the goals caused a blockage.

I used to encounter this situation myself, until I figured out how the accomplishment of daily goals leads to the promised land. And that’s when I made a shift that was and still is self-sustaining.

Now, every single day, I get my goals.

Instead of focusing on one big goal, I divide and conquer.

I “split the atom” until action is self-sustaining, making it impossible for me not to “go for it.” I begin with the smallest particle of action where I encounter zero resistance to forward movement, and once I’m moving I have positive momentum on my side.

Each day I get at least one goal I set. And by year’s end, I have so much momentum that I have accomplished over 1,000 goals.

Those 1,000 goals end up helping me accomplish some rather lofty big goals, even when I don’t focus on much more than the small ones. Funny how that works. When you do the opposite of what so many teach, you get better results.

Some of those lofty goals I have accomplished include writing a book in seven days, and doing so without the use of A.I. or a voice dictating APP. Everything flows when I begin with the first step instead of flooding my mind into a state of confusion and overwhelm.

Other goals I accomplish each year have to do with health, fitness, family vacations, finances, and so on.

Life truly does get better and better when you take care of the seemingly small stuff. Hence the poem I wrote several years ago:

When you focus
on the big,
you stumble on
every twig.

When you focus
on the small,
you realize
you can have it all.

In my greatest Goal Getting Intensive of all times, I’m going to show you how to set and get your daily goals.

I am going to show you how to use daily goals to accomplish a seven-day goal, one that you might think of as impossible in that time frame.

I am going to show you how to build unstoppable momentum, overcome resistance, and achieve what you might not currently believe is possible for you.

I am going to show you how to generate enthusiasm on command, not just on New Year’s Eve, but every day.

And I am also going to show you how to tap into and use “controlled anger” to your advantage, something Dr. Maltz wrote about in Psycho-Cybernetics.

There are 17 spots left for this Goal Getting Intensive. It will be held tomorrow night, July 21, at 7 PM EST. It will run for two hours, during which time I will give you the Furey Formula and answer all your questions.

The fee is $197.00.

To grab your spot, email me at mattfurey@mac.com and I will send you a direct link to enroll.

Let’s reactivate your Happy New Year mindset tomorrow night, in July, so you can look back upon this year and be astonished at how far you’ve traveled in such a short time.

Matt Furey

 

What’s Goals Have to Do with It

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Everyone has a goal.

Some people have goals that are five, 10, and 20 years into the future.

Other people have daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals.

And then there are those people who supposedly don’t have any goals.

These people claim they “just do.”

My answer: Everyone has a goal.

Some people have default goals; goals that were given to them by others, including parents, teachers, coaches, siblings, peers, the corporation or team, the media, et cetera.

Without realizing it, those with default goals began picturing what other people expected from them, and they began to move toward those targets.

Years ago, a baseball coach who was working with my son, began the practice by saying, “My goal for you is…”

I scratched my head and wondered why a coach would tell a player what his goal is. Why not ask the player, “What is your goal?”

Perhaps the reason was a desire to control. Maybe it was the reality that so many people need guidance because of their tendency to set unrealistic, impractical goals. Or maybe it was a belief that if you don’t tell others what their goals are, they won’t have any.

Consider the school system. How many students would complete assignments or study for tests if teachers didn’t tell you to do so? How many athletes would practice, and on what, if a coach didn’t come up with a plan for them?

Whatever the case, the truth is that everyone has a goal. It may be a goal that you came up with and are working toward, or it may be a goal that was put into your mind by someone else.

But wait…

There are people who get out of bed in the morning, sit around and eat, then do next to nothing but watch television, movies, or scroll through social media until it is time to go to sleep. Is that their goal?

It sure is.

Whether these people realize it or not, they are doing what they pictured themselves doing. Upon getting out of bed, they picture sitting around, eating and being entertained, and so they do.

As for high achieving men and women, they get out of bed with completely different mental movies playing inside their minds. They picture something they want to accomplish that day, and they get to work and make it happen.

Last year, one of my goals was to rip a deck of 52 poker cards in half. I accomplished this goal on the evening of Christmas Day. After this I upgraded the goal, adding more cards.

More recently I’ve been working on ripping a much more difficult deck of cards in half. While doing so, I tore a callous off my hand, which interfered with my practice.

But wait a minute, I thought, this is an opportunity to practice ripping cards with my non-dominant hand, which happens to be my left. While the skin was healing, I could still be training.

The first day I practiced with my left hand, the technique felt awkward, but even so, to my surprise, I was able to tear 40 cards in half. I then set a goal to rip a 52-card deck with my left hand inside of one month.

One day later, I was fully recovered and decided to test myself with 42 cards. After I ripped them in half, I felt a strong sense of momentum, so I gave 44 cards a twist. The tore them in half as well.

I took a break.

Later that day, I formed a mental picture of myself ripping 46 cards. I then tested myself to see if I could do it, and to my delight, I did.

In the evening, I thought to myself, “I wonder if you can rip a deck of 52 cards tonight.”

I went outside, turned the camera on and had my wife film the feat. I formed a clear image of ripping through the deck. At first it felt impossible, but once I got that “winning feeling,” I ripped right through them.

As a result of being able to rip a deck of cards in half with either hand, I now have a contest going between my right and left hands to see which one will accomplish the next strength feat first.

The goals I just mentioned are goals I gave to myself. But there are others I have recently accomplished as well.

Last week I finished the audio recording for the Psycho-Cybernetics 365 book I wrote last year. It will be available on August 19.

I also have another book on Goal Getting which will be available later this year. And I have a couple health and fitness courses coming out soon.

What about you?

We’re 21 days beyond the halfway point for this year.

Are there any personal, career or professional goals you have in mind, that you want get (not just set) before the year ends?

Do you want to come up with your own goals and turn them into reality, or would you rather sit around and let others tell you what your goals are?

The Goal Getting process I teach is unlike anything you’ve ever heard or read about before because it’s not about having a bunch of huge goals that are so far into the future that you end up feeling frustrated and defeated.

I teach you how to get your goals by activating the principle of momentum in your life. Once you have momentum going for you, there’s nothing that can stop you.

Two days from now, Wednesday, July 23, I’ll be having another Goal Getting Intensive. It will take you deeper than the one we had back in January.

It will begin at 7 PM EST and go until I’ve gone over everything I have planned. It will run at least two hours. All your questions will be answered.

The fee for the Goal Getting Intensive is currently only $197. I have 36 spots remaining. If you want to participate, email me at goals@psycho-cybernetics.com and I will send you a link to enroll.

I will not attempt to sell you when you email me. I will not send you to a salespage to read more about it. You already know if the idea of getting your goals appeals to you or not.

So there’s really nothing more to say other than, “Yes, send me the link so I can register.”

And yes, if you cannot make the call live, you will get a replay of it that you can watch repeatedly for 60 days.

Want in?

Then email me at goals@psycho-cybernetics.com

ALL the BEST!

Matt Furey

P.S. My apologies if there are any typos in this email. I have much on my plate today, so this dispatch was written without any editing.

What’s Really, Really Expensive

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“Expensive is more a state of mind than a reflection of reality.”

–el Furecat

A man grew up in a home where all he ever heard was “that’s too expensive” and “we can’t afford it.”

Years later, this man began learning how to break out of the cycle he was born into.

He learned to be grateful for what he currently had instead of constantly frowning about what he didn’t have.

He learned to see those who were prosperous with “kind eyes” instead of with jealousy and envy.

He learned to harvest skills that would help him rise above his “lot in life.”

And he realized the moment his life had truly changed for the better when he walked into a clothing store, picked out all the suits he wanted, along with belts, ties, shoes and socks.

What was different about this moment?

It was the fact that he never looked at the price tag before trying anything on. The thought never even crossed his mind.

After deciding on what he wanted, he walked over to the cashier and handed her all the goods.

And when she was finished ringing him up, without batting an eye, he made the purchase.

When this man walked out of the store, reality hit him.

Wait a minute, he thought to himself.

Are you aware of what you just did? You bought all these clothes without even knowing the price until the cashier told you.

This was a new reality for him.

His life changed on the inside first, and the reality he was now experiencing was a reflection of it.

At this point he was reminded of what a mentor told him years earlier in response to the question, “When do you know when you’ve escaped the poverty consciousness mindset?”

The mentor said: “When you walk into a store and make a purchase without even knowing how much the item is until the cashier tells you, and you are happy to pay for it when you find out, at that moment you will recognize that your mindset has shifted.”

Years ago, one of my mentors, Don, told me the following: “Money is just zeros. The only difference between a hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) and a million dollars ($1,000,000) is another zero.”

I cover this point and 100 others in my book, 101 Ways to Magnetize Money… in Any Economy.

You’ll probably dig this book. I wrote it in a day and my first printing sold out faster than any book I have ever written. Several people bought 100 copies to give to friends, family and co-workers.

When I wrote 101 Ways to Magnetize Money… in Any Economy, I did so to help a friend.

I had no idea that it would be a “hit,” nor did I have a clue that Nightingale-Conant would contact me to turn it into an audio book, which you can find at audible.com – if listening to a book is your preference.

ALL the BEST!

Matt Furey

The Wealthy Garbage Man

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It was the shock of my life. It blew the doors off my reality.

There I was, in my personal fitness training center in California, working hard to “get ahead,” when a garbage collector knocked on my door, wanting to hire me to be his trainer.

I didn’t know what this man’s profession was at the time, but after a brief conversation, he told me more than I could believe.

Turns out that this man, who was only 38 years of age, was already a millionaire.

From what? I wondered.

I had no idea even though the answer was hidden in plain sight.

Well, that was good for him, but there’s no way I was going to become a garbage man, no matter what the income.

I wanted to become a writer, and a prosperous one at that. I wanted to have a business that didn’t require me to trade time for money. I also wanted to be debt-free.

That was my vision. I focused on it each day, and as a result of doing so, opportunities began to come my way.

I began writing books and creating courses, and one day, one of my clients, Adam, a boy of 16, advised me to get a website on the Internet.

Website? Internet? I had no idea what he was talking about.

Adam created my first website back in 1995. I had no inkling at that time how much it would change my life, and the lives of people all over the world.

30 years later I can look back and it all seems surreal.

And yet, it all began with a vision, a mental picture, a mindset… which brought opportunities my way that I didn’t know existed.

If I would have rejected these opportunities, I’m certain that life would be quite different for me today.

One of those opportunities was learning how to become debt free and prosperous, simultaneously.

It was learning how to pay off a mortgage in seven years instead of thirty, an idea that was unbelievable when I first heard about it, as it is not followed by the masses, even though it is relatively easy to do… when you have a prosperity-prone mindset and vision.

Is this vision and mindset all there is to it?

No.

But it is the pad you launch your rocket from. It is where a change in your circumstances begins.

With a prosperity-prone vision you can do the impossible, you can rise above your circumstances; without it you can barely make ends meet.

Well, I’m going to be going into great detail on this subject in my Prosperity-Prone Intensive, being held this Wednesday, June 18, at 7 PM EST.

Come learn what I learned and do what I have done, come get the vision, and I’m betting that your life turns out so good you’ll need a satellite to monitor how far you’ve traveled.

Only 25 seats remain. Interested? Then reply to this email: goals@psycho-cybernetics.com

Matt Furey

The Prosperity Experience

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“It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.”
Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

And so it is with prosperity as well. Being taught about prosperity has value, but experiencing it is something entirely different.

I grew up in a family where everyone picked up a pen and wrote. It was only natural for me to do likewise.

Conversely, in that same family, no one ever picked up a pencil to draw. My only experience of drawing was in school, and it wasn’t one that filled my heart with love.

As for prosperity, I wasn’t taught that either. Not at home. Not in school.

I did my best to learn it via the “School of Hard Knocks.”

But I found a far better pathway to prosperity from the “soft knocks” I received from mentors and clients who weren’t theorizing on the subject. They were living it.

Never once did I ever hear any of them utter phrases such as, “I can’t afford that.” Even when these people didn’t have the funds to do something they wanted to do, they were not discouraged because they used what I call “look for, find and count” language.

They looked for and found a way to get the funds, then they counted it and used it to get what they wanted.

Several years ago, my son, Frank’s, high school baseball coach, Nicholas Rodriguez, showed me the blueprint for a new baseball field that would also serve as a football and soccer field. He then told me that he needed to “find” two million dollars within two years to move forward with the project.

The first year, he raised almost nothing. After 18 months, he had $100,00.00.

And then, presto bango, in the last 60 days, he raised the rest ($1.9 million).

Coach Nick had a prosperity-prone personality. Never once did I ever hear him say, “I want a new ball field for this school, but we can’t afford it.”

It wasn’t about whether or not the school had the dough. Other people had it. So Coach Nick looked for and found donors. And then he counted the funds.

The field went up before Frank’s junior year, and was and still is a beauty. I’d say it’s the best high school field in the city, if not the whole state of Florida.

If you want something, figure out a way to get it.

And part of getting it is to never, ever utter the poverty-prone personality’s words, “I can’t afford it.”

Matt Furey

Note: Next week I’ll be holding a Prosperity-Prone Personality Intensive. It’s going to be HUGE. People are already enrolling. Interested? Then reply to this email here: goals@psycho-cybernetics.com

The Prosperity-Prone Personality

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“…there are “success-type personalities” and “failure-type personalities,” “happiness-prone personalities” and “unhappiness-prone personalities,” “health-prone personalities” and “disease-prone personalities.” Self-image psychology throws new light on these, and many other observable facts of life.”
Maxwell Maltz, M.D. Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

Additionally, there are prosperity-prone personalities and poverty-prone personalities. Whichever way someone leans is usually due to the mental pictures and programming that began in early childhood.

The good news is the unwanted, negative pictures and programs can be discarded and replaced with a completely different point of view, resulting in a vastly different life.

If you want to go from rags to riches, to rise from poverty to prosperity, it’s not simply a matter of knowing what you do. It’s primarily a matter of how you think BEFORE you begin doing. If you see your future as being more of the same, that is what you will experience. If you see your future as bright, it will eventually become so.

Matt Furey

Note: Next week I’ll be holding a Prosperity-Prone Intensive. It’s going to be HUGE. Interested? Then reply to this email here: goals@psycho-cybernetics.com

What Your Brain Sees

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So… I put up a video on Facebook several years back, showing a flow sequence from a Thai-Indonesian martial art I am a guru in.

It received rave reviews. Even so, I was shocked by the comments people made. Over and over I read comments such as,

“Looks like Taekwondo.”

“Reminds me of Karate.”

“Looks like Kung Fu.”

“Takes me back to my study of Aikido.”

“Looks like Savate.”

“That is what we practice in Ving Tsun.”

I was bewildered. How could all of these different people look at what I was doing and see an art that they had practiced or were engaged in now? How did they not see the uniqueness of what I was doing?

That’s when I realized how often we look at “reality” but see with our brain. Instead of seeing what is on the outside, we see what is already inside of us.

It takes practice, skill, and patience to truly see something originally, and do so without comparing it to what you have already learned.

Two years ago I was driving in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. The Crow Native riding along with me, blurted, “Look, there’s a herd of elk.”

“Where?” I asked.

“Over there. There’s at least 500 of them.”

I pulled to the side of the road, walked 30 yards toward the fence to get a better view, and still couldn’t see them.

A man from Alabama handed me his binoculars. I still couldn’t make them out. All I saw was green grass with brown patches of dirt here and there.

With a little more guidance, I tuned in and saw the elk that were a half-mile away. It was the first time I saw elk in the wild, but it wasn’t the last. Today, I can spot them with ease.

The first time I saw a bald eagle was when someone pointed to one resting at the top of a tree. Today I see bald eagles almost everyday but before I only saw trees. And it makes me wonder how many times I have walked or driven past an eagle without seeing it.

Improving your self-image is similar to seeing an elk or bald eagle for the first time.

At first you may not be able to see yourself being different than you are now. But with some guidance, you will realize that you must see the change you want to become on the inside first.

Once you see what you want on the inside, you’re much, much closer to seeing it in reality.

That’s the way the brain works. You see on the outside a reflection of what is on the inside.

And that’s why I frequently use the phrase….

See it. Feel it. Be it.

Matt Furey

Learning a Lot About Little Things

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This morning as I was pulling weeds, I noticed the little ones I overlooked yesterday.

There were so many of them that I didn’t see as I focused on getting the big ones first.

But today I saw them clearly.

After I got under a bunch of smaller ones and pulled them out, I noticed a stick in the dirt near the corner of the house that was slightly covered with soil.

I brushed it off.

It’s just a partial tree branch, I thought.

Just before tossing it into the bag I looked closer.

What is this, really?

I noted the broken nubs, the hollowed inside where it broke off a “tree,” as well as the angle of the “branch.”

My brain was seeing what was already inside, a branch, until I took a breath, paused, asked questions, and looked at the piece with conscious eyes.

I positioned this “branch” above my right ear and looked at my reflection in the window.

Oh, deer. Is this what I now think it is?

What I dismissed as a branch was something entirely different when I looked closer. Made me think about writing, wrestling, and the water flowing in rivers and creeks.

How often do we take a closer look at the details that go into making something great?

Human beings are quick to say, “I know. I know.”

But when we stop time and take an original, curious look at something, it’s amazing what we overlooked.

When we closely examine something small, something seemingly meaningless, we learn a lot about it.

And so it is with the thoughts we think, the ones that tell us, “I know, I know.”

Those thoughts seem small and inconsequential, but they are far from it.

Examine the little things you once thought were true, about yourself and about life itself, and you’ll see a whole new world.

Don’t be surprised if it’s in a corner and it’s covered with a bit of soil and some weeds.

Matt Furey

Psycho-Cybernetics Daily Mind Massage

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A pivotal moment in my young life took place when I attended my first wrestling camp at the University of Iowa.

The first day, Dan Gable, the 1972 Olympic Gold Medalist and head coach of the Iowa team, asked for a partner to demonstrate on. The boy who volunteered stood stiff as a robot, unable to relax. Gable immediately told him to take a seat and looked for another partner.

As one boy sat and another stood, Gable looked at us and said, “When you’re wrestling, you need to be relaxed.”

Then he paused, shook his arms to release tension from his body and added…

“You gotta relax so you can EXPLOOOOOOODE.”

Two years later, when I was on Gable’s team at Iowa, I noted how frequently he shook his hands, wrists and forearms to release unwanted tension.

Gable did this while walking down the hallway, while watching film of previous competition, as he warmed up before practice. He seemed to be doing it all the time.

I didn’t fully realize the importance of Gable’s “quirk” at the time. No one else on the team did it nearly as often. Most didn’t do it at all.

Over the years, in my study of martial arts and other endeavors, I learned that physical and mental relaxation are the hallmarks of the great ones. The superstars know how to be calm and relaxed as they sit still, stand in place, or move.

They know when and how to apply pressure to something without using unnecessary tension. They know how to apply force to a task without overdoing or “forcing” it.

The great ones are using something I call “the principle of effortless effort.”

They relax so they can EXPLOOOOOOODE.

First, they imagine what they want to do. They see it and feel it as though they are doing it now.

Second, they act without appearing to act; they are relaxed and at ease as they move. They let their mind lead the way.

Third, they get results that stun those who take action first, those who, when things don’t go well, apply even more tension, which leads to even worse results.

There’s a reason that Psycho-Cybernetics teaches you relaxation exercises first. With them you’re a powerful force, an extraordinary achiever; without them you’re average and ordinary.

“You gotta relax so you can EXPLOOOOOOODE!”

Matt Furey

P.S. Next week, June 18, I’ll be holding another Intensive. Details forthcoming.

Weekends are Made for This

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Weekends are for rest and relaxation,
for fun and games, for reading,
for recovery, prayer and meditation.

Weekends are for reflection,
for deep introspection,
for planning and scanning the horizon.

Weekends are a time to imagine,
to reset your vision and goals,
to see the future bright and bold.

Matt Furey

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