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“I may be a mistake-maker, but I’m also a mistake-breaker.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D.
Examining errors may be unpleasant, but when you overcome what went wrong and see an improvement, you feel pleased. Eradicating mistakes allows you to release the trapped tension that was holding you back. So shake off your mistakes after you make them. You’ll not only breathe better afterward, but you’ll hit your targets with far greater ease.
Matt Furey
“Be aware of who you watch, listen to, and associate with. It’s much easier to rise upward when you aren’t
surrounded by those who are pulling you downward.”
“Good friends and good mentors do more than back you up; they challenge you to finish what you started.”
“To become a great goal-getter, you do more than focus on a destination; you also take note of the correlation, of how much farther you have to go.”
Matt Furey
Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – the eye-opening, riveting and engaging book that takes Dr. Maxwell Maltz best quotes on how to upgrade and improve your self-image – and turns them into easily understood actions that lead to previously unimagined results. Read and reflect, one page at a time.
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“Instead of resisting what you don’t want,
insist and persist on what you do want.
What you persist will eventually exist.”
Matt Furey
Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – an eye-opening, riveting and engaging book that takes the best quotes from Dr. Maxwell Maltz on how to upgrade and improve your self-image and turns them into easily understood actions that lead to previously unimagined results. Read and reflect, one page at a time.
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“Positive pressure uplifts; negative pressure downgrades. Successful living maximizes both types of pressure. You don’t get too high on the positive, and you learn to rise above the negative.”
Matt Furey
Psycho-Cybernetics 365 is such a great book that the author does what he instructs the readers to do. He reads and reflects upon one daily entry to begin each day.
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“When the finish line looks and feels too far away, focus on getting started in the here and now. Every day represents a new starting point. When you string together a series of days where you just got started, you’re going places in life. The conclusion will be a foregone finish.”
Matt Furey
Honorée Cordor wrote to tell how much she loves reading a page of Psycho-Cybernetics 365 each day. I replied, “I do, too. A page a day keeps the troubles away.” “True story!” she replied.
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Q: Matt, I’ve been doing my best to get rid of my ego. I’ve worked on it for many years and feel that I am not making any progress. Any suggestions?
A: Your question reminds me of the tell-a-vision commercial I grew up with for Lego waffles. The tagline was “Lego my Eggo.”
I mention this because you’ll be better off when you “leave go of your ego.” Pay no attention to this distraction from taking action.
To focus on how big or small your ego is, or to keep track of how much it expands or contracts, is a highly megotistical and narcissistic practice. After all, who but an megotist would give any thought to the size of his or her ego?
Focus on GO, GO, GO and you’ll lose all interest in the ego.
Matt Furey
“Confidence is a coin flip away from uncertainty. Change the mental picture and you change the motion picture.”
Matt Furey
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Recommended Reading:Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – Thrive and Grow Every Day of the Year – a daily reflections guide that explains the nuts and bolts of Psycho-Cybernetics in bite-sized golden nuggets
“You become great when you mentally pretend that greatness is your nature, when you see your life as a canvas being painted, a movie being filmed, a three-act play in which you are playing, directing and refining the results you seek.”
Matt Furey
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Dear Matt,
I’ve been suffering with an addiction known as PMO. Each time I engage in it I feel horrible afterward. I tell myself I’m not going to do it again, then the urge becomes overpowering and I fall victim to it again. Any suggestions?
A.
Dear A.
This is where you can begin to exercise your “won’t power.”
You do the opposite of the Nike slogan and… “Just Don’t Do It.”
It’s one thing to have positive goals that you pursue; goals where you want to be able to say, “Look what I created.”
It’s another to feel subject to default goals that you didn’t formally declare. Although you’ve been exercising your will power to overcome this addiction, will power is no match for won’t power.
You exercise won’t power by seeing and declaring what you WON’T do anymore. You see yourself walking away from the screen and the fakery. You forgive yourself and recognize that a much Higher Power loves you and forgives you, too.
Begin with a one day goal, as in, “I won’t do XXX today.”
Don’t just say it, either. Picture yourself NOT doing and keep score of your progress by recording how many days in a row you’ve exercised your “Just Don’t Do It” power.
Replace the old habit with a new one. Do something else with your hands. Keep them engaged in reading, writing, drawing, cooking, cleaning, gardening and so on.
I would also encourage you to read today’s entry (June 19) in Psycho-Cybernetics 365 – which is about “being used” by an addiction. Read a page each morning when you get up. At the top of each page is a quote from Dr. Maltz, followed by my commentary.
I read a page each day myself, and I wrote the book. What does that tell you?
Keep me posted on your “won’t power” progress.
And remember, Just Don’t Do It!
Matt Furey
Today’s reading in Psycho-Cybernetics 365, contained the following quote from Dorothea Brande:
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
Take a minute or two to ponder these words.
Ask yourself if you are moving through life in accord with these words.
What would happen if you acted as if it were impossible to fail?
Would the picture you hold in your mind be altered in a positive way?
Would your facial expression change?
Would you relax and move forward or sit around worrying?
Answering this question changes the game going on inside your mind – and leads to results beyond what you can currently imagine.
Matt Furey
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Best,
Matt Furey
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