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What I Didn’t Learn in School

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When I was in high school, a doctor friend used to drop by our house most mornings to have breakfast with my Dad.

His name was Duke. He was a wild man compared to my father. And I will always remember him saying, “I’m a doctor, but I’ll be the first to tell you, you learn more about life from sports than you will ever learn in the classroom.”

The ole Doc nailed it.

As I look back upon every class I took, it’s hard to come up with a single shred of wisdom that remains with me to this day.

But when it comes to sports and martial arts, there is something pivotal, something life changing in every single workout.

When it comes to living and embodying the principles of Psycho-Cybernetics, people who are athletic, people who have played sports or who practice martial arts, have a distinct and decided advantage.

All throughout the book you will see example after example on the power of visualization and mental imagery being utilized by golfers, baseball players, basketball players, boxers and so on.

There is a reason for this.

In order to activate your Automatic Success Mechanism, you go back into your memory banks and relive previous happy moments, previous success experiences. If you’ve challenged yourself in the past, both physically and mentally, this is relatively easy to do. But if you’ve never been athletic, if you have avoided physically challenging yourself, it can be tougher.

Here’s the good news: It’s probably not too late for you to become more athletic, to practice sports, to engage in martial arts.

And if you already are physically inclined, it’s not too late to add something new to the equation, to test yourself in a different way.

Running a marathon was a dream I kept to myself for a long time. I used to run several days a week, but never competed in a race.

Then one day I decided to train for and run a half-marathon. When the half-marathon was over, I felt so good I realized it was time to take the next step.

I registered to run in the Honolulu Marathon.

Whilst training for the marathon, I made a number of mistakes. I was running myself into the ground. I sought advice from a coach and changed my routine. The advice worked.

Next thing you know I’m running in pouring rain in the 1990 Honolulu Marathon.

I finished with a time of 3:35:52 – which was 1,101 out of 13,800 registered runners. I didn’t WIN the marathon. My goal was to finish. And that I did. Over 3,000 runners failed to finish. Something I don’t understand at all.

I never ran another marathon, but I will always have the one I ran as a success experience I can go to when I want to fuel my mind with success juice.

This is why I say it’s important to have an area of your life where you do something physical to prove to yourself that visualization works.

No one thought I had the body type to run a marathon, except me.

And that’s all that mattered.

You can prove the power of mental imagery with sports of accuracy such as tennis, golf, bowling, dart throwing and horseshoes.

You can prove it with strength training or power lifting.

You can prove it with endurance activities: marathons, triathlons, swimming and walking.

You can prove it with playing billiards.

You can prove it with combat sports and martial arts.

And you prove it with calligraphy, drawing or playing a musical instrument.

Challenge your body – challenge your mind.

Do something you’ve never done before to prove to yourself that visualizing is realizing.

See it. Feel it. Be it.

el Forecast
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The Power of Moonlighting

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It doesn’t matter.

You can get up early in the morning or you can stay up really late.

The benefits to you, your career and your life are nearly the same, perhaps even better.

They are definitely better for me.

Personally, I’m not a fan of the get up at 5 AM club.

I get my best work done and make the most progress as a night owl, a moonlighter.

If I go to bed early, I still have to overcome resistance to get myself going in the morning.

But if I stay up late – and I mean well past midnight, I’m already in flow. I get more done with zero resistance, and when I finally go to sleep, I’m pleased with what I accomplished. I’m grateful for the good day I had.

As a result, that same day, I wake up energized.

Last night I went to bed at 2 AM. And I got up at 7:30, raring to go.

I got two hours of mega productive time in between 11:30 PM and 1:30 AM.

It was super quiet and peaceful. The same as you’ll encounter at 5 AM – me thinks.

This is why I say “it doesn’t matter.”

It doesn’t matter if you get up early or stay up really late – so long as you get a couple solid hours of productive time in, during the early morning hours, when it is quiet and peaceful.

If you’ve tried, unsuccessfully, to follow a 5 AM regimen, give the power of moonlighting a whirl. The key hours are 11 PM – 1 AM. You can stay up longer if you so desire, but those are the hours where you’ll begin enjoying the greatest benefits.

See it. Feel it. Be it.

el Furecat
笔名 for Matt Furey
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Let’s Meet in Person

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This is a wild shot in the dark.

It’s also a rare, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

For you and for me.

If you’re interested in following in my shoes, writing a fitness and/or self-development book – if you want to duplicate and/or exceed my results, then this message is going to be music to your ears.

For quite a long time I’ve been thinking about doing another seminar on this topic, and then a big surprise came my way.

I got invited to speak at an event in Gdansk, Poland, this coming August.

How could I refuse?

Never been to Poland – and when I saw the footage of the area, I looked at flights immediately.

Now I’d like to extend an invitation to you.

Come join me in Gdansk. Let’s meet and make this seminar an absolute thriller.

Let me help you write that book and manifest your dreams.

Let’s kick butt in Gdansk.

Here’s the link.

Click it NOW.

Kick ass – take names,

Matt Furey

My Secret Goal Setting Code

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Was at a coffee bar this morning – reviewing my goals, hammering out “copy” and poetry – while many college students sitting nearby have zero idea what I’m writing because I’m using what is now, in many ways, a secret code.

It’s called Cursive Handwriting.

I write all my goals, poems and somewhat deep thoughts, in cursive – first.

I write much of my copy the same way – first.

Then, when I need speed, I type.

I write cursive for many reasons. Here’s a partial list:

1. It uses the brain at a deeper level – causing neurogenesis and enhanced memory function

2. It improves fine motor skills that come into play when performing a gross motor skill, as in sports or martial arts, with a light touch

3. It releases neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, making you feel good

4. It puts you into a calm, relaxed, flowing mood – without even trying

5. It increases production of IGF1 – insulin-like growth factor – the hormone involved in keeping you YOUNG

6. It makes you feel superior to other earthlings who can barely print their name, much less write it in cursive

7. If you ever want to read the original writings of our forefathers and/or your forebears, you have the ability to do so.

8. It increases clarity of thought, organizational capability and precision.

I know many people who type out their goals. This is a big mistake.

Writing them out is much better – and writing them in cursive is FAR BETTER due to the increased brain wave activity.

This is why, whether you’re currently studying Psycho-Cybernetics or Zero Resistance Living – you want to fill in the blanks in cursive.https://youtu.be/7ocOIKI1fic

Doing so will engage more of your brain – both sides – and help catapult you to where you want to go.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

P.S. If you want to view the actual writing of today’s Psycho-Cybernetics poem – you can view it on Instagram @mattfureysays – or on the Matt Furey Theatre of the Mind Facebook Group I created.

P.P.S. You can also view my cursive writing in the YouTube videos I’ve been putting up. Subscribe to my channel.

Wanting it So Bad You Can’t Have It

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If you want to make seemingly quantum-like changes in your life, then you’ll want to avoid the trap of attempting to make a whole series of changes at once.

I realize the temptation is huge. You read Psycho-Cybernetics and you listened to Theatre of the Mind, and you get so incredibly pumped that you want to change everything about yourself, everything you hate, everything that is holding you back – and you want to change ALL of it NOW.

One of the most overlooked principles in Psycho-Cybernetics is called over-motivation. In short, it’s wanting something so badly, wanting to make quantum changes so quickly, that you get in your own way and stumble over your own shadow, not to mention your feet.

When it comes to money, over-motivation can be an enormous hurdle. Same goes for weight loss, or winning a championship in sports.

This is why you make one change in your life at a time, rather than 50.

Once you decide to make a specific change, you track it, and do so in such a way that everyday is a victory.

Here’s an example of how it works and how it doesn’t work:

How it Doesn’t Work

A guy I know wants to become a copywriter. He reads one book after another on HOW to write effectively. He even goes to seminars and enrolls in online courses on the subject.

It appears, on the outside, that this person is DOING. But studying a subject, although important, is NOT DOING… nor is it LEARNING.

There’s no everyday victory for this person, no confidence building going on. It’s just study, study, study. All he can do at the end of the day is say that he read something.

Great. But what did you create?

The joy in life comes from creating after you study or think. The joy comes from the practice of something.

Studying and thinking are important components, but without the DOING you have nothing.

This person is over-motivated. So motivated, in fact, that he will buy everything and enroll in even more because he wants to be the BEST copywriter the world has ever seen. But when shove and push want to get together, he’s got no oomph. Over-motivation ruined this person’s chances of success.

How it Works

Person number two is also interested in copywriting and buys the same courses and attends the same seminars and workshops as Mr. Over-Motivation. But she does one thing different. After she reads about a specific skill or facet of the trade, she closes the manuals or shuts off the recording and PRACTICES the one thing she just learned.

And at the end of the day, she gains greater insight and clarity about the craft because she’s practicing. She can also hold something in the air, in her own hands, and say, “THIS is what I wrote.”

She created something. She did something.

And if she continues to do this every single day, and tracks it, she has a million times better shot of making it than the person who only studies.

This is how it works, my friend.

Do one thing.

Do one thing everyday.

Track it.

Get good at what you’re tracking.

Then learn another thing – and do it.

And another.

One change at a time – and pretty soon you have 50 changes.

Make cents? Or sense?

Good.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

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Success Reluctance

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Everyday it’s the same old drivel.

“I’m not worthy. I feel like a fraud. I’m not good enough yet. Who am I to write a book, teach a course, train people, etc.?”

If you’ve ever entertained such thoughts, you’re not alone – and it’s a big freakin’ club.

So big, in fact, that the author of a 35-million copy best-seller, a CLASSIC that changed the world of self-development forever, had this same crappy thinking rummaging around in his brain, too.

Yes, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-Cybernetics, experienced what I call “Success Reluctance.”

Who was he to write about psychology? After all, he was JUST a plastic surgeon!

Who was he to write about a virtually unknown subject called the “self-image” – and how a person who changes the way he or she sees this invisible “self,” can dramatically change outcomes, results, talents, skills, abilities, and so on?

Maltz was also reluctant because of the troubling question: “What will my colleagues think?”

Getting over this inane, inner hypothetical was vital to him moving forward with what he envisioned.

What’s interesting though, is how the same person who experiences “success reluctance” thinks it only affects him. No one else has this thought. Just me.

Uh-huh.

As a coach of M.D.’s, Ph.D’s, and plenty of other professionals, I’ve yet to meet the person who has never experienced self-doubt or reluctance.

So it’s not a matter of whether you have it or not – as much as it is amplifying the imagery of what you want, what you envision, while refiling the reluctance and doubt.

If you’ve ever gone to bed filled with positive aspirations and opened your eyes in the morning filled with doubt, once again, you’re not alone.

But if you want to separate yourself from your doubt, and free yourself from self-inflicted bondage, you’ll move on in spite of the negative.

If you wait until all the doubt clears before you move, you may be waiting forever.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

Leave the Losers Behind

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Inside each and every human being is an automatic mechanism that operates in one of two ways: As a creative success mechanism or as a failure mechanism.

Which mechanism we are using at the present, depends largely upon what we’ve programmed into our minds – or what we’ve unwittingly allowed others to put into us.

The mental imagery we habitually picture in our own minds is what we tend to get out of life.

Whether we realize it or not, the people we associate with play a large role in either helping us move up – or keeping us stuck. Hence the saying: Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.

Whether we choose to believe it or not, we are influenced by the people we associate with.

Every interaction counts.

Whether we talk face-to-face, over the phone, over Skype, by text, Twitter or Facebook – everything counts.

When I look at HOW I got to become a champion athlete, there are many factors that went into it – but having a great coach was a major part of it. The same is true of my study of martial arts, business, and so on

Somewhere along the line I was influenced by someone who knew more and knew better than I did.

Now, the question many people have is, “Can you break out of the doldrums when you’re surrounded by people who want to keep you down?”

The answer is yes.

But there is a process because most people aren’t going to instantly manifest the very person who can and will help you.

The process starts with beginning to think BIGGER..

Not BIG.

I said, BIGGER.

You begin to see yourself rising UP and OUT of where you are.

How do you begin to SEE YOURSELF this way if you’re surrounded by negativity?

Well, subscribing to this email is a start. Understand that “readers are leaders” – or, as Mark Twain would say, “The person who does not read is no better off than the person who cannot read.”

Read the classic best-seller Psycho-Cybernetics, and discover the unstoppable power of a positive self-image.

Get audio programs on Theatre of the Mind and Psycho-Cybernetics as well, to reinforce the message while you’re driving.

As you begin to do these things, keep them to yourself. Your job is lifting yourself up first, not those who are negative. You cannot help others unless you’ve helped yourself, so keep your vision, your goals, your mental images locked inside your own mind.

Everyday, begin to think BIGGER. Not so big that you’re fearful and timid about taking action. But big enough that you can see yourself in a better place.

Once you’re in a better place, think BIGGER again.

And keep doing this until one day you come to a realization such as, “I believe I can do anything I set my mind on.”

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

P.S. Another thing you can do is be a part of the Matt Furey Theatre of the Mind Facebook group. You’ll be able to watch videos that are helpful, including one I am putting up this week on How to Defeat the Failure Mechanism.

Are Affirmations a Crock of Crap?

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Pick up a self-help book and most of the time, it doesn’t take long for the author to begin espousing the glories of positive affirmations.

Many of these authors are well-meaning, but in almost all cases, they are just repeating what someone else wrote or said.

The sad truth is that many of these authors pass on what other authors wrote when they have no proven track record whatsoever of it working in their own life.

One book tells you that you’ll get rich if you write affirmations about “having it all.”

Tell yourself, I AM RICH.

Or, I AM A MILLIONAIRE.

As you begin to follow this advice, things often go in reverse.

The authors will then tell you that the reason you’re struggling is because you have “limiting beliefs.” You’re advised to take note of what all your limiting beliefs are, then change them to their positive counterpart.

Thing is, you might have a million and a half negative or limiting beliefs, many of them unconscious, so you’re not exactly about to figure out what ALL of them are, must less record them, so you can reverse them.

Ugh!

There’s got to be a simpler way than this.

And in fact, there is.

Let me begin with a simple question:

What if the notion that you need to change your limiting beliefs was just an idea, and not necessarily an idea that is true?

What if the notion that all these limiting beliefs are keeping you from being rich, prosperous, famous and highly fortunate were, for the most part, a very clever marketing ploy designed to make the author of the book wealthy – but not YOU?

Well, all I can say is, it wouldn’t be the first time someone sold something that doesn’t work – and didn’t care – so long as it made him a bundle.

The reality is that MOST affirmations are a crock of crap.

And most of your so-called limiting beliefs that you’re being advised to fix, aren’t holding you back in the least. There’s no need to fix them because they’re not relevant when you have your mind focused in the most effective, efficient and natural way.

Now, let me clarify something: I am in favor of SOME affirmations. I am not in favor of MOST.

In fact, I have taught thousands of people to do the exact opposite of what the positive thinking books advise, and whaddyaknow, the method I taught worked far better.

Por ejemplo, you’ve probably heard about the three P’s of positive affirmations. If not, the theory is that whatever you affirm must:

Be positive
Be personal
Be in the present tense

This means that you would not say or think, “I’m hungry. I am going to go get something to eat.”

No, no, no. Don’t do that, even though you’ve successfully filled your belly for an entire lifetime doing precisely that.

Instead, be a good little self-help disciple and follow the three P’s.

Instead of “I’m hungry” you should write “I am well fed now.” Or, “I am always eating enough food.”

Now, don’t laugh too hard. This is el Furecat reducing self-help to the ridiculous, and for a reason.

You would never in a zillion years think of being hungry as a negative or limiting belief, would you?

Why? Because it’s the truth, at least once a day, isn’t it?

Why not report the truth then? What would be the harm in doing so?

“Oh, but the gurus say….”

Forget the gurus. Think. Really think about what I am writing to you about.

Why would you write an affirmation such as, “I am a millionaire now” when you don’t even do such a thing for simple everyday accomplishments such as feeding your face (and stomach)?

It appears to me that saying, “I am hungry” and “I need food” is working out pretty well for you.

But maybe this is too complicated. Perhaps we need another scenario for validation.

Alrighty then, let’s say you’re driving around town and you look at the fuel gauge and it says that you’ve got five miles left before you’re completely out of gas.

What to do?

Oh, I know. How about this? “My car is now completely filled with gas.” Or this, “The universe always supplies me with all the gas I need.”

What do you think?

Is that going to put gas in your tank?

I don’t think so.

In fact, I know so.

I don’t even “believe” it to be so. I absolutely, 1,000% percent KNOW that saying, “My car is now completely filled with gas,” makes about as much sense as a fart in church.

If your goal is to travel another 100, 1,000 or 10,000 miles, you better say to yourself something very limited, such as: “I need gas. I’m almost empty. I better stop at that gas station over there (first one you see).”

To be continued…

Here endeth the lesson!

Matt Furey

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No Mistakes – No Progress

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On a regular basis I work with authors in the making.

There are two types:

1. The writer who wants to make no mistakes – and remains a writer
2. The writer who accepts his or her mistakes, makes corrections and becomes an “author.”

As I tell my clients, being a writer is easy. Being an author requires much more.

One doesn’t sell anything. The other does.

One learns from mistakes and GROWS. The other abhors mistakes, stifles himself and goes nowhere.

Embracing your mistakes is the hallmark of a successful person.

Everything in your life that is working has both positive and negative charges or attributes.

The battery is an easy example. How well would your car battery work if it only had a positive – or only a negative?

Not at all.

The same is true when you analyze your successful journeys as well as your unsuccessful ones. When you’ve succeeded, you may note how you were able to use your mistakes as corrective feedback. Unemotionally, you looked at what was wrong and made a course correction that led to victory or to the accomplishment of your objective.

On the other hand, when you have a goal and you make a mistake and you get so upset about the mistake that you stop taking action to correct it, you are finished.

Yes, the journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step – yet it’s important to realize that many of those steps will be “off-course.” You’ll be going in the wrong direction, unintentionally. But once you catch the error and change course, you realize that you were supposed to make that mistake, and without making it, you wouldn’t have succeeded.

Next time you make a mistake, learn from it. Use it to understand that something valuable was acquired that you wouldn’t be able to use unless the mistake happened.

Think of mistakes as nothing more than having a conversation with someone. You speak but mispronounce a word or use the wrong word. You note the error, clear your throat and correct it.

No emotional attachment to what was said a second earlier. Keep the car in drive and make an adjustment.

So simple, when you think about it.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

How to Turn Losers into Winners

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Suppose you were a fan of the worst team in football history. And suppose you were disappointed year after year after year.

What to do?

Give up and become a fan of another team?

Perhaps.

Or you could realize that your team is in two places simultaneously.

First, they are in the lowest and deepest canyon ever seen. Second, they are also in the perfect position to climb the world’s
largest mountain.

The same holds true for you when you make mistakes, fail, or have setbacks.

You can view these situations as “the worst” – or you can view them as perfect positioning for a rebound.

Over the past year, a good friend, while working to increase prosperity in his life, got stuck with a nasty divorce. Things looked worse than ever before.

At his all-time low, I told him things could be a whole lot worse.

He began looking for the good in the bad and within a month he was in a new home with a new job that will bring him an easy six figures per year.

He climbed out of the canyon. He turned the pits of hell into peaceful prosperity.

This is how nature balances things out. Nothing is ever 100 percent good or 100 percent bad.

There is always a speck or sparkle of good in the seemingly hopeless – and once you discover it, you can amplify it.

Back to football….

Take a look at the records of the worst teams in the game today.

The Tampa Bay Buccanneers rank near the top.

So do the Cleveland Browns.

But will it ALWAYS be that way?

Not a chance.

The same is true in each and every human being’s life.

The trick is realizing that you’re playing a game, too. It’s called the Game of Life.

Things can always get better. You can always play better. Even if you go undefeated – there were games you won in spite of not being at your best.

What would happen if you approached life from the standpoint of the climber. No matter how low you sink or how far you ascend…

keep climbing.

Look for the good – look for the mountain,
and be on your way.

Matt Furey

P.S. Looking for more prosperity in your life or business? Consider putting your writing talents to good use for the good of others.

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