If you’re exactly the same person you were when you were “growing up,” then you haven’t grown much as a person.

You can mentally pretend to be anyone you want to be. You can also imagine acting and becoming someone other than who you think you are at this time.

When you play around with and see a new image of yourself acting and reacting different, it’s amazing to observe how you become the very person you were picturing.

Life is growth: Upward, forward, and outward in all directions.

Matthew Furey

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If you don’t have a system to achieve your goals, then you might as well not have any goals.

Then again, a system without a clearly defined goal can become a miracle worker.

If you get up each day and implement a system of actions that are not necessarily tied to a specific goal, you may be surprised to find that you out-achieve or over-achieve what you were focused on before.

Why?

Because as you build momentum with your system, you begin to mentally picture possibilities you never envisioned before.

Someone who has a systems goal to run two miles per day, may realize, after six months or so, that he or she could run a 10K, a half-marathon or a marathon.

The system brought about this realization.

And now, with a goal and a system to back it up, you are literally off to the races.

Matthew Furey

author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – now available in softcover, Kindle and audiobook formats

There are two environments that make it easier for you to create the results you want, to get your goals accomplished.

The first is your external environment. This is where you go to practice, train or get your work done.

It could be an office with pictures on the wall and your favorite type of music playing. It could also be a room in your home, or a cabin where you have total privacy, or a place where there is background noise, such as a coffee bar, or a pool where children are playing.

The second is your invisible, internal environment.

There is an environment within your brain-body where you are at your best, where there is zero resistance to you taking action and getting the job done.

This internal environment can vary as well. Some people prefer to tackle the most difficult task of the day first, forcing themselves, usually with will power, to do what they are prone to putting off.

I have a different approach, one where I go after one of the easiest goals I have on my list for the day. This goal may only take me five minutes (or less) to complete, but once it is finished, I have momentum on my side, and as a result, I find it easier to slide into the next objective.

Similar to a snowball, I can begin the day by pushing one that is the size of a large boulder, or I can begin to pack one together that fits inside my hands and begin to roll it forward until it is much bigger.

Afterward, I can make another snowball, going after my next goal. And with this approach, by the end of the day, I have created a fortress of completed jobs that point to a day that was well lived.

At the end of the day, as I am putting my head on a pillow, I can look at what I have accomplished and say that today was a winner.

Whichever approach you choose to use, observe your results and the method that got you there, then decide if it would be a good idea to make some tweaks in your external and internal environments.

Matthew Furey

Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – is now available for immediate shipping.