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The Secret of Learning Faster

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August 25

“When I began implementing this way of learning, my ability to learn new material quickly ran off the charts. I went from thinking of myself as a slow learner to seeing myself learning new material rapidly.

The method I have described is the way of breaking everything down into bite-­size chunks. It’s the same as what I have advised for the accomplishment of any goal.

If there’s something you’re having trouble learning, how can you break it into smaller components so that you absorb the material faster?”

Matthew Furey

Today’s message is an excerpt from my new book, Psycho-Cybernetics 365. Get it NOW and devour Dr. Maxwell Maltz’ most powerful quotes, that I decode and add commentary on, making the information even more usable and repeatable than ever before. After reading this book straight through, start with the current date on the calendar. Read and reflect on one page per day. Then get after your goals and turn them into reality. With the detailed techniques included in Psycho-Cybernetics 365 at your side, you are going to be amazed at the different you that shows up, each day of each year.

What’s Your Natural Learning Style?

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Although we are quick as a society to label some people as “naturals,” this is usually not the case.

Our success in life has more to do with being willing to pick ourselves up after falling.

Indeed, there are those who are ahead of us when we first begin to learn.

Some people may have more innate ability than we do. Some people absorb a lesson faster than others, often due to having a similar learning style to the teacher.

However, once you become aware of how you learn when you are at your best and shift to absorb material based on your learning style, your progress will accelerate dramatically.

Matt Furey

Today’s message is an excerpt from my new book, Psycho-Cybernetics 365. Get it NOW and devour Dr. Maxwell Maltz’ most powerful quotes, that I then decode for you, making the information even more usable and repeatable than ever before. After reading this book straight through, start with the current date on the calendar. Read and reflect on one page per day. Then get after your goals and turn them into reality. With the techniques of Psycho-Cybernetics 365 at your side, you are going to be amazed at the different you that shows up, each day of each year.

Smiling Energy

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The following is an excerpt from my new book, Psycho-Cybernetics 365, which thanks to so many, is doing extraordinarily well.

“I will practice smiling at least three times during the day.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded

Smiling at least three times per day is an achievable goal and a worth-

while one at that. When you smile, you instantly begin to feel better about yourself due to the positive neurotransmitters released in the brain.

When you smile at others, they usually respond in turn. When you smile as you think about the people you love, you see them in a different light. And when you smile into the goals and actions you want to take, you become aware that energy is released, making the process much easier.

There are thousands of opportunities to smile each day, and they begin

as soon as you wake up. They begin long before you look at your face in the mirror.

The moment you open your eyes, consciously pull the outsides of your

lips upward a bit, then let them down. Repeat this a few times so you really experience the difference a smile makes for you. Make a choice to maintain your smile for at least a minute, then decide if you want to make it last longer.

Over time, you can consciously cultivate this smiling habit and turn it into an unconscious habit. You’ll note how people smile at you when you’re in a store, or out walking, and at first you may not realize why.

Then the reason will come to you. Other people are smiling at you because you walk around all day with upturned lips.

Are you willing to see if smiling can become a habit for you? Remember to

give yourself a minimum of twenty-­ one days to find out.

Matthew Furey

Link to the book – Psycho-Cybernetics 365

See It In Your Mind

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August 11

“See yourself in your imagination taking positive, intelligent action toward solving a problem or reaching a goal. See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive and intelligent manner.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics; Updated and Expanded

As you read this passage, the key words to focus on are “see yourself… taking action.” This is what successful people are doing in greater and greater numbers than ever before.

Some think they don’t “see” themselves taking action before doing something (even though it’s not possible), and they scoff at the idea that there is great power in your imagination or that it is a God-­ given faculty that all of us have.

You should do nothing to convince those who don’t want to discover the truth for themselves. Leave them alone and focus on doing what you are learning in this book and the other programs I have available on the psycho-cybernetics.­com website.

Do more than see yourself accomplishing a goal. See yourself doing what you need to do to make your goal become a reality. This is fundamental yet often missed.

You can picture yourself achieving an objective, and this alone will get you going. But if you’re not able to gain traction to move yourself toward a goal, if you are resisting taking action, then begin at once to see yourself taking action.

Before you fall asleep in the evening, see yourself taking care of objective number one. As you see yourself acting, mentally say to yourself, “I am going to do (fill in the blank) tomorrow.”

These words, “I am going to . . . ,” when stated to yourself along with the picturing of yourself acting, are the keys that toss resistance out the window.

When you get up in the morning, picture yourself again while using the same type of self-­talk. Repeat your statement as a command, with enthusiasm, then observe what happens in your world. I believe you are going to be stunned at how easy and effective this method truly is. Are you willing to give it a go?

Matt Furey

Note: Today’s email is an excerpt from my new book, Psycho-Cybernetics 365, to be released on August 19. Click the link to reserve your copy.

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

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.

Last Call – 3 Spots Remain

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You may not have heard this before:

There’s a success switch in your mind/brain. And when it’s turned on, good things happen.

You move toward your goals and accomplish them.

People show up in your life and help you out.

Information you need suddenly shows up on your radar.

Why doesn’t this happen when you’re down in the dumps?

Dr. Maxwell Maltz wrote about this in Psycho-Cybernetics. He referred to this switch as your “automatic servo mechanism.” Then he broke it down even further, writing about your “automatic success mechanism” and “automatic failure mechanism.”

He wrote that there are “success prone personalities” and “failure prone personalities,” explained why this is the case, then told you how to turn it around.

Tonight I am going to pull the curtain back even more than Dr. Maltz did, giving you the “inside the mind secrets” of how you activate yourself to be success prone.

Funny thing is I have taught my private clients how to activate this switch within seconds. The first exercise I teach takes about 30 seconds. I can teach it to a child even faster. I can even teach it to a “grumpy old man.”

There are many different levels of activating this success switch, making you success prone, and I’m going to cover a whole bunch of them tonight in the Success Switch Intensive I’m conducting.

As of now I have 3 spots left.

If you want in, click the following link to send me an email: Success Switch Intensive and I’ll send you a direct link to enroll.

It’s not cheap to be involved in this intensive – (it’s $177.00) and for many, many good reasons. Then again, in many other ways, I’m certain I am undercharging for it.

The question is: How much is being “success prone” worth to you?

Last time I checked, failure is expensive. And heartbreaking.

If you want in, contact me NOW.

Only 3 spots left.

Matt Furey

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