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Grab the Low Hanging Fruit

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10 days ago I began teaching the inaugural Theatre of the Mind Challenge, a course that teaches all the members of this illustrious group to raise their vibration, improve their self-image and create positive energy in their lives.

It’s amazing to observe how much these people have grown so far, and to hear the enthusiasm in their voices.

When you practice Theatre of the Mind on a daily basis, your life gets into a state of flow – and it shows as you begin to glow. People pick up on improved vibration/self-image and doors that were closed begin to open.

Thing is, many people have bought into the erroneous notion that they are “visual” or that they’re not good at picturing things in their mind’s eye. This is something I covered on Day One – with a 100% success rate. Everyone realized that visualization, taught my way, is far easier than previously thought.

Today we covered the physiology of creating a high-vibration. I had the group sit in the way I instructed them to sit, and follow what I was doing with my hands.

To say that the members were astonished would be an understatement. They immediately felt the energy in their bodies in some incredible ways. At this point, these men and women realized that if you create this state of being BEFORE you practice Theatre of the Mind, your results will be amplified beyond belief.

I say “beyond belief” because you don’t have to believe what I am saying is true, and it doesn’t matter if you think it will or won’t work for you. It will happen regardless of what you think.

Why? Because just as you have a cybernetic function in your brain and in a thermostat, you also have one in your body. And once you assume the postures of success I teach, much of the important “work” you are doing… is already done.

Visualizing when you’re in a low vibrational state can help lift you out of it, but not nearly as quickly as when you add the elements I am mentioning.

Note: The success postures are not something I covered on the first day, as a firm foundation still has to be laid. I covered the physiological aspects today, when people were primed and ready for them, when they had already lifted their vibration significantly with the other Theatre of the Mind visualization exercises.

And this is important. Too many people put the cart in front of the horse. They try too hard to make a shift in their lives. But “trying” doesn’t work. Neither does jumping over hurdles that you’re not ready to scale yet.

This is why I’m a firm advocate of beginning with the low hanging fruit. Start with daily goals instead of goals that are 20-years off. Start with goals that are process oriented, goals that lead to so much momentum that you can now see the positive writing on the wall. Yes, you CAN do this. You CAN succeed. And you’re proving it to yourself on a daily basis.

Talking about momentum, I’m so pumped about what our group is doing that I am eager to begin filling up the next one, which will probably sell out, as this one did, fairly fast. We will begin on February 12.

Do you want to be involved?

If so, send an email to mattfurey@mac.com and tell me why you want to be considered for this next challenge.

So you know, I don’t take everyone who wants to be a part of this Challenge. I am selective.

The fee for this training is easily worth $5,000 per person – but I am offering it for the ridiculously low early-bird amount of only $1,500. This amount will go up substantially as the date of the next Challenge approaches.

The Theatre of the Mind Challenge gives you the mind-power to go where you’ve never gone before.

You may need a telescope at the end of 2024 to see how far you’ve come.

What I am teaching in this course is not for Lookie Louise’s or Mal Content’s. It’s not for tire-kickers, whiners and complainers.

Get a hold of me immediately at mattfurey@mac.com if you want to participate, and if you’re cut out for this program, I will send you the link to enroll NOW.

Matt Furey

The Big Goal

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Having a BIG GOAL is similar to being in a tournament with 32 competitors, all of whom want to win – with some desiring it more than others.

You begin with the opening round, which you must win to play another day.

If you win the first round, 16 competitors are left.

If you win the next round, eight people remain. Win again and you’re down to four.

With one more victory, two people are still standing, and one of them will take home the championship.

The competitor who is looking ahead to the championship before the first round, is often upset by someone not as highly skilled.

The one whose primary focus is on the current round is poised and relaxed, able to perform at his or her best. The competitor who looks too far ahead, figuring the current round is a foregone conclusion, often meets with disaster.

And so it goes with having a BIG GOAL of any kind.

If you chunk your goal into bite-sized daily accomplishments, you play the game of life with passion, purpose and power. You allow momentum to build as you focus on the process of getting something done.

Over time, by focusing on the process, the result you seek almost seems to take place of its own accord.

Ultimately, you were the one with the vision, the one who created the reality you’re now living in.

But you did it by looking ahead temporarily, then putting your focus back on the here and now, the step you must take before you get another one.

Champions are masters of taking care of the little stuff that adds up to the big prize. Champions don’t overlook opponents, regardless of their record. They take care of who and what is in front of them today.

Too much focus on the BIG GOAL leads to disappointment and frustration.

You can never focus too much on taking care of the opponent you are facing today.

That tiny pebble in your shoe is only a nuisance when you don’t take the time to remove it.

Daily goals may appear to be a nuisance in comparison to a BIG GOAL, but if you don’t take care of them, they will bite you.

Matt Furey

Author of One Breath at a Time

Stopping to Smell the Aroma of Sweet Success

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Q: Why do you and Dr. Maltz advocate reviewing previous successes? Isn’t it better to just move on and focus on the next thing?

A: Moving onto the next goal without taking time to appreciate what you accomplished is the same as never stopping to smell the flowers or refusing the savor your favorite food. You’re living and moving, but without all the senses being activated.

When you express appreciation and gratitude you connect to the Creator and strengthen the creative process. When you relive a previous success experience, no matter how seemingly insignificant (such as the first time you tied your shoes) before you visualize you are practicing gratitude even though it is not explicitly stated as such in Psycho-Cybernetics.

Gratitude and appreciation increase your vibration. It puts rocket fuel into your tank.

Matt Furey

The Daily Facelift

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Q: In Psycho-Cybernetics Dr. Maltz talks about giving yourself an emotional facelift. Does this mean you can give yourself a facelift in your imagination?

A: Not only can you give yourself an emotional facelift, but you can also use your imagination to do a face plant (not recommended). The key word is”emotional.” Use your mind to lift the corners of your mouth (inner smile) and experience the difference it makes in your inner and outer world.

Matt Furey

from my notebook

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I keep various notebooks and journals.
Some tiny, some much larger.
Others are leather bound, this one has
spirals.

I write cursive or script and almost never print.
Sometimes the characters I draw… a bit better than
stick figures – have squares and triangles that drop a
hint.

And then there are the rhyming words, the poems.
Written just for fun when life is easy or rough.
No thoughts of buy or sell, letting my mind
roam.

Feels good to free the mind from its cell.
Once a day, to let loose without a snare.
Climb a bonsai tree? Let crickets ring a
bell?

With pen and pad, the trivial becomes important.
The telling of what you can ruin or create.
Can you fish without water, or turn a walk into a
hunt?

– Matt Furey
author of One Breath at a Time

P.S. I thought today’s entry would come from my notebook, but as I began… something else wrote itself upon the page. When that happens, go with it.

The Goal You Don’t Put In Writing

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Have you ever had the experience of writing out a list of ALL your goals, especially the BIG ones where you stretched your mind to think without any limits? 

If so, how’d this process turn out?

If your results weren’t so good, ask yourself, “Have you ever achieved a big goal that you did NOT put in writing?”

In my investigations, I have found that people who say, “I don’t need to write my goal down because I know what it is and I’m not going to forget it…” are almost always correct.

When it comes to the goal you CANNOT get out of your head, chances are there’s no need to write it down because your subconscious mind is already activated and working to help your bring it into reality.

With this type of goal, there’s also no need to speak about it, to anyone, especially if you want to make sure it gets completed. The only exception would be a mentor.

A goal that consumes your mind has YOU, you don’t IT. This type of goal is in your mind, your heart, and every fiber of your being. To write it down can dilute the process of achieving it. Again, so does talking about it.

As for the goals that DON’T have you by the heart strings, yes, we are prone to forget them, so it’s a good idea to put them in writing and review them often.

Let me know if what I have written here resonates with you, based upon your experiences.

Here endeth today’s lesson.

Matt Furey

The Fastest Way to Remember Names and Numbers

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Today’s Question:

Hello Matt,

Thank you for your welcoming email. I am looking forward to reading your “almost” daily emails.

One thing I would like to find out, and that you could address in the email, is what are the best psycho-cybernetics exercises to increase memory retention, and what can of expectations one could have about developing a better memory.

As I am reading the Psycho-Cybernetics, I have great expectation that I will see positive results as Maxwell Maltz was the genesis of it all.

Sincerely,

Jerome R.

Jerome,
Great question. There are no specific memory techniques that are directly spelled out in Psycho-Cybernetics, but they are in there, written between the lines… once you realize the power of mental imagery.

I say this because your memory and imagination are linked, and this is one of many reasons Dr. Maltz wrote, “If you can remember, worry or tie your shoe…”

Worry is the negative use of the imagination. When you worry you picture something in the future that is negative and this mental picture is accompanied by feelings of anxiety, dread, hopelessness and so on.

As for tying your shoe, if you can remember doing so, you are also picturing it.

What’s this have to do with memory?

Well, when you want to remember something, if you form a mental picture of it, you retain the information far, far faster than if you attempt to remember by rote.

For example, to remember someone’s name, you don’t need to repeat it several times in a conversation, as is commonly taught. If someone tells you his name is Jeff, you make an association with a word that rhymes with it, such as chef, then you imagine that Jeff is wearing a large white chef’s hat. If someone’s name is Sherry, you can imagine that she is eating a bowl of cherries.

As for numbers, you turn all of the numbers you want to remember into famous people and you build an imaginary story around them.

The first ten digits of pi, as an example, are 3.14 15 92 65 35.

Each of these numbers corresponds to a letter in the alphabet, i.e. A=1, B=2, C=3.

So 14 is Adam Dunn, 15 is Albert Einstein, 92 is a bit trickier as you turn 9’s into the letter N (it contains two of them), so Napoleon Bonaparte will do; 65 is Frederic Engels and 35 is Chris Evert.

Now you form a story of Adam Dunn teaching Albert Einstein how to hit a home run; followed by Einstein stabbing Napoleon, followed by Napoleon falling onto Frederic Engels then Chris Evert hitting a tennis ball off his head.

The key, once again is using your imagination… albeit in an exaggerated manner and represents one of the unwritten reasons that getting good at visualization is a great idea. Not only will you remember your goals you’ve set better, but everything else that is important to you as well.

Thank you for the question.

Matt Furey

P.S. I cover this sort of thing and much, much more in my Theatre of the Mind Masters Coaching program.

How I Made a Ukrainian Girl Cry

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So I walked into my favorite restaurant in Tampa, was greeted by a Russian lady, Gina, who typically waits on me, and grabbed myself some wood at the bar.

A bearded, bespectacled man who was sitting two chairs away, looked and me and exclaimed, “You look familiar. I think I know who you are.”

“Are you a martial arts teacher?” I asked, noting the Chinese characters on his shirt.

“No, I’m not a martial arts teacher.”

“Oh, I noted the black t-shirt and characters and thought you might be,” I replied.

He continued: “What is your name?”

“My name is Matt.”

“And what do you do for a living?”

“I help people become more successful,” I answered.

“And how do you do that?”

“With my books and courses and newsletters and other services.”

“My name is Andy and I’m in IT. I think you should get a membership site on onlyfans.com,” he said, with a serious expression.

I raised my left eye a bit and said, “Onlyfans? The porn hub?”

“Oh, it’s not just a pornhub. I know a guy who teaches cooking on it and he charges $2.00 a month and…”

“TWO dollars a month?” I laughed.

“Yeah, it’s good money. You can get followers from all over the world who just sit there and watch you cook, or whatever else you do.”

With zero excitement I said, “I see.” Then I got up from my chair and relieved myself in the lavatory.

Upon my return the bearded wonder turns to me and says, “Is it alright if I talk with you some more.”

“YOU can talk,” I snarled.

“What’s your name again?”

“I already told you that.”

“Oh, your name is Matt. Sorry. And what do you do for a living again?”

“I told you that, too,” angling my body toward the door, hoping he can read body language.

“You know what else you can do to improve your business?”

I turned to him as though I wanted to know his next piece of whiz dumb, then stated, “How about you get to work on your memory. There are a few courses I can recommend.”

This terminated the conversation.

A minute later, Gina brought my food, recalling correctly what I wanted. She brought more than the usual amount of food, her habit, which I always reciprocate at the end of the meal with a meatier tip.

Before finishing my meal, the bearded guh-roo finished his brew, got up from his seat and said goodbye to the staff. I sent out the “don’t put your hands anywhere near me” vibe – and he got the message, leaving me at peace to finish my meal.

After paying my bill, I asked Gina where the Ukrainian waitress was, as I had a gift for her.

“Raquel,” she called out.

Within seconds the Ukrainian appeared. “Hi Matt,” she says, easily remembering my name.

“I have a little gift for you. You told me you’re fasting this week, and I thought that maybe some reading material would keep your mind strong.”

I handed her a copy of Psycho-Cybernetics and flipped to a page with some exercises she can do to relax.

“Oh, thank you,” said Raquel. “When I am finished I will give it back to you.”

“No,” I answered. “There’s no giving it back. This copy is for you.”

“You mean you want me to keep this book?” she questioned.

“Yes, it is a gift. No giving it back to me.”

At this point she was crying her eyes out. I put my hand on her shoulder and said, “You are going to be amazed at how good this book is.”

Raquel opened her arms, giving the hug signal, and although I’m usually not the touchy-feely type (outside of family), I gave her a hearty embrace.

As I walked out the door I wondered how such a small gesture of kindness could produce such a reaction.

And then it came to me. Many people in this world have never been given a no-strings-attached gift from anyone in their life.

Not only that, when you speak, most people don’t listen, not even when you’re telling them your name.

Matt Furey

From Neediness to Wantiness

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Question of the Day:

Matt,
What’s the difference between needing something and wanting something? And does being needy prevent you from becoming wealthy?

Answer:

When you need something, it’s usually a matter of survival. You need oxygen to breathe, you need water to bathe, you need food to eat and water to drink. 

Just because you want something doesn’t necessarily mean you “need” it. For example, no one needs to be a billionaire. There are those who want< that amount of wealth, but do they "need" it. Not a chance.  When you really want something, you don't need much of a reason. You probably want it for its own sake. If someone asks, "Why do you want that?," you don't have an answer other than, "Because I want it." I did not become an author because I needed to become one. If there was no such thing as money, the desire or want to write would still be there.

Strangely enough, many people are surprised when those who do what they want out-earn those who do what they think they need to do to put food on the table, and so on.

Matt Furey

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