Q: Matt, how do you get yourself to take action toward your goals instead of procrastinating on them?

A: People procrastinate for many reasons, but one of the biggest, if not the biggest reason, is the resistance they feel about the action that is required.

Here’s a simple example: If your house is a mess and you want it to be clean, you attempt to calculate an answer to the question, How long is this going to take? And upon coming up with an answer, you say to yourself, “I don’t have that much time right now.” So, instead of doing something, you do nothing, other than find time to watch movies, tee-vee, talk on the phone, scroll on social media, and so on.

You put off any and all action because of the resistance you feel and your desire to avoid that feeling.

Ultimately, you can fight through this resistance and force yourself to “just do it.”

But what if there was a way to feel no resistance to taking action? How much would you accomplish if there was no resistance to taking action whatsoever?

You can tell yourself that resistance is normal and you have to battle it every day. Or you can do what I have done and figure out ways to get things done without a battle, without fighting through the resistance.

When you go after a goal without any resistance to taking action, the success you will enjoy is “off the charts.” It’s mind boggling.

Yesterday, I had an incredibly small goal. So small you would laugh. So small that it would be accomplished within 60 seconds.

But what was the result of focusing on that goal? That’s the question.

The result was that I kept going – for another five hours, without any resistance, and I accomplished a much, much bigger objective.

What a great way to live.

You can fight resistance if you want. You can engage in a daily battle with it and think there is no other way to go through life.

The results of procrastination are ugly – but it is rooted in avoiding the resistance.

But when you remove resistance from the equation – there’s no reason to avoid action.

Matt Furey

Psycho-Cybernetics.com

P.S. Want to learn my methods of easy Goal Getting Without Resistance. Then I suggest you enroll in the Master Class I’m having on it this Saturday, January 17, at 1 PM EST. Drop me a line at goals@psycho-cybernetics.com to get the link.

“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

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

“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

Q: Matt, one of my favorite books by Dr. Maltz was Creating Living for Today. In the book he taught to never retire but instead to remain creatively alive. Can you expand on this?

A: Creative Living for Today is also one of my favorites. The way I look at this subject is as follows: You can “retire” from an occupation but you never retire from life. You focus on doing something else, on being creatively alive. When you are in the process of creating something new, you RENEW your energy, which gives you more life, more get up and go. To “retire” means to get tired again. To “renew” means to become new again. Which would you rather do? To me, being tired is one of life’s greatest miseries. Being renewed, however, is one of life’s greatest mysteries.

Matt Furey

Dear Guru Furey,

Q: If I set a goal that’s too big and too far off, I get scared and don’t do anything to bring it into reality. And this leads to bad dreams. Any suggestions?

A: Reminds me of when I used to have nightmares. I not only froze, I broke into a sweat. Start with the small and let momentum move the ball.

Matthew Furey

Note: If you want the world to be a better place, as I do, Psycho-Cybernetics 365 will move you and many others in that direction. If you don’t want things to change for the better, don’t get Psycho-Cybernetics 365.

Q: Dear Guru Furey, do you think affirmations work?

A: Sure, affirmations work – thing is, on what? They’re like a worker bee who focuses on collecting pollen but forgets about making honey. An image works in any language. An affirmation without an image is about as useful as a dry sauna without heat. Combinations matter.

Matthew Furey
Author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365