Psycho-Cybernetics - See Yourself at Your Best
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Here’s a thought to ponder today:
“Momentum from small successes can catapult you to achieve far bigger results, including results you never thought possible before momentum was established.
There is no such thing as a small success or a tiny victory, because the tiniest victory can lead to a lifetime of accomplishment.”
Matt Furey
P.S. From V.P.
“Matt, I just finished reading Expect to Win-Hate to Lose for the second time. Literally cannot put it down. Thank you for writing such a great book.’
During my walk this morning I got the following download that I want to share with you.
“Whenever you see someone who owns a big ole smile, oh, how you may want to trade places, at least for a while.
But behind the smile are experiences you do not know; pain and suffering transcended he dare not show.
Your pain is for you and his is for him – accept it, move on and live your life then.
Your smile is natural, it will come from above, when you accept yourself now – with a big chunk of love.”
– Matt Furey
P.S. Strange but true, I’ve been writing these little ditties on a daily basis. They represent yet another shift taking place in my life. Even so, there’s a ton of oldies but goodies on the Psycho-Cybernetics Products page, especially the best-seller, Theatre of the Mind. If you already have these products, listen to them and read them again. You cannot get all the value from just one round.
Here’s a little ditty to brighten your day…
“If you find yourself in a place where you don’t know what to do, you don’t know what to say
or
you don’t know what to think –
enjoy…
this
defining moment.
Freed from the bondage of
always having to know what to do,
what to think and
what to say,
you are free to
finally be or do
something that no one can
ever take from you.”
– Matt Furey
P.S. If you enjoyed today’s thought, there’s a lot more in store for you here – including the best-seller, Theatre of the Mind.
Here’s a thought for the day:
“When the goal becomes a process –
and the process becomes your goal,
you will exceed all preconceived
expectations and ambitions.”
– Matt Furey
P.S. If you enjoyed today’s thought, there’s a lot more in the Psycho-Cybernetics Library. including the best-seller, Theatre of the Mind.
“Act without trying.
Breathe without interruption.
Laugh without smiling.
Go without moving.
Love without hate.”
– Matt Furey
“The most vulgar word in the English language is only three letters: t-r-y.
The person who tries to do something – or anything, accomplishes nearly nothing.”
“I am a billionaire.”
“I am seven-feet tall.”
“I am a basketball player in the NBA for the Golden State Warriors.”
“I am … I am… I am….”
In the uncanny world of self-development, none of the foregoing statements are lies – even though they are.
If they’re not lies, then, what are they?
In positive thinking speak – they’re called…
“BELIEFS.”
Delusional. Hallucinatory. Exaggerated.
Absolutely, they are – but try to convince the positive thinker otherwise and you’re fighting a losing battle – unless you’re armed with high-powered persuasion skills.
Even then, though, you’ll need someone willing to drop all the pretense and bluster and be real.
But wait a minute – isn’t Psycho-Cybernetics all about being a positive thinker?
Psycho-Cybernetics is about changing your self-image, the way you see yourself. It’s about being honest with yourself – in terms of your past and your future.
It’s not about telling yourself you are something when you aren’t.
If you’re not a billionaire or millionaire, there’s no thought crime for stating the truth. Being honest will help you go to the next level – whereas the phony positivity has far less chance of helping you.
If you want to go somewhere in life, you must know where you are now. You cannot set proper coordinates if you tell yourself you already are where you want to be.
This is probably one of the main reasons why Psycho-Cybernetics has such grand appeal with athletes and coaches.
You cannot hide the truth about your record.
How many wins v. how many losses?
What’s your free throw percentage?
How many steals?
How many tackles, interceptions or fumbles?
How fast do you run the 40 or 60?
I’m talking about real data you can see on paper and verify.
“I am MVP of the league?” – well, let’s check the record books and see.
Whereas…
“I want to be MVP of the league…” – that’s a very different story.
You have a goal. You recognize you are not there yet.
So you put the time in.
You picture what you want – but you also picture where you are NOW – in relation to the goal.
That’s Psycho-Cybernetics.
It’s positive and life-changing because it deals with the way things are as well as the way you want them to be.
If you want to achieve your goals and dreams – and do so without fighting with yourself about what you believe, then take the next step forward.
Start where you are – then move.
Matt Furey
P.S. If you already have Psycho-Cybernetics and want to know what’s next, then be sure to grab a copy of Theatre of the Mind – the audio program I created with Nightingale-Conant.
2,500 years ago, in the Chinese classic called the Tao Te Ching – Laozi wrote the following….
“Act without doing.”
As you read these words, you might do a double-head shake. At first, these words barely appear reasonable or accurate, especially in a whirld* wherein the maxim of the day is to…
“take massive action.”
Hmmm, put thee pondering cap on, my friend, as you’re about to enter the zero resistance zone.
Consider the superb professionals in ANY field and how we regard them:
The professional speaker who makes the very thing many people fear the most look easy.
The surgeon who is operating for eight or more hours on the same patient and has no sense of time.
The NBA star who swishes free throws without looking.
The writer who is in a trance-like state as she cranks out a novel.
The chef who tastes his dish to reassure himself he’s still living on planet earth.
All of these people are acting – but none experience themselves as a DOER.
These pros are so much in the NOW that neither time nor resistance to action appear to exist.
They think, they imagine and then they are spontaneously catapulted into doing – albeit effortlessly so.
Whether they are taking a few tiny steps each day – or 100,000, they never really feel as though they’re doing anything, because ultimately there is only…
“one step at a time and one breath at at time.”
Being aware of this, LIVING this, means you are in the FLOW STATE, the Zero Resistance Living state of mind.
This is…
“act without doing.”
See it. Be it. And do it without doing it.
Matt Furey
P.S. A few recommendations for you in regard to the above:
Zero Resistance Living
Theater of the Mind
Psycho-Cybernetics – Updated and Expanded
P.P.S. I would also encourage you to join my
Theater of the Mind Facebook group
A great many people who’ve attended courses in self-development, have a negative reaction to the word “goal.”
The word “goal”registers as an expletive, a filthy four-letter word. Every time these people hear it they are reminded of ALL the goals they set and never achieved.
In fact, many people who set goals, despite all the rah-rah of the self-help teachers, cannot honestly point to much success at all using the process.
You can test your internal reaction when you read the following phrases:
“What are your goals?
You gotta have goals!
You cannot be part of the top 3% unless you have clearly written goals with plans for their accomplishment.
You cannot get rich, lose weight, become a (fill in the blank) without goals.
No one ever succeeds without a clearly written goal.”
What if I told you that ALL of the above are not necessarily true?
The idea that your goals MUST be in writing and MUST be clearly defined fits in the same category as the equally false advice about making sure you THINK BIG, take massive action, set goals that scare you and get out of your comfort zone.
The above may be true for a very tiny group of society, but it’s NOT true for everyone – myself included.
Many of my top achievements were NOT written down, nor did I have written plans.
How about you?
Am I against having written goals? Or plans?
No.
What I’m for is helping you figure out who YOU are and how YOU get things done.
I can thank my children and tai chi for helping me discover what I’m telling you.
Almost every day I practice the so-called slow motion martial art known as tai chi.
I’ve been going at it for years – and I am continually and continuously improving.
Yet, I have no written goals about the art and how good I should be.
Even so, I”m on the trail of tai chi and am constantly thinking about it – looking for tiny or seemingly insignificant ways I can make myself a little better.
As a result of looking at the SMALL – doing the opposite of thinking big – I’ve made major and dramatic improvements. So much so that every time I think I’m getting good, a new wave hits that catapults me to unexpected heights.
My daughter is the same way with dancing.
She’s never had a written goal about it. And she’s now on her 10th straight year of constant improvement.
In my son’s case, whenever he has set very specific goals, he has faltered. Yet, when he focuses on the journey and the process, his concentration and his results are staggering.
I can go on and on about this subject for days, but the real person I want to help is YOU.
Take a few moments and ask yourself a few basic questions:
1. What percentage of the goals I set for myself do I actually achieve?
2. How often do I feel paralyzed with fear and/or frustration a day or two after setting goals?
3. Am I taking less action or more after I’ve set goals for myself?
4. How often am I able to live in the present moment and enjoy my life?
5. Have I ever set goals and noticed that “all hell breaks loose” – i.e. the opposite of what I intended begins to manifest?
Again, these are some basics to get you rolling.
Matt Furey
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True, yet not true.
That’s what I think on an almost daily basis when my clients bring up yet another motivational maxim for me to opine and re-position.
Here’s today’s example, followed by my commentary:
“You need to go to bed early and get up early if you want to be successful.”
Most people I know get up early each day – and most of them do not consider themselves to be successful.
Yet I know others who moonlight and sleep in, and they’re more successful than those who rise early. Almost every pro athlete goes to bed late and gets up later than the rest of society – and they’re making bank.
Same goes for rock n’ rollers, artists and performers of every shape and size.
The other day I was listening to Bruce Springsteen talking about his “glory days.” He told how he sleeps in until noon.
I guess he’s got it wrong.
The fact is that many, many, many people are early risers, and they lead very unfulfilled lives. Some early risers have extraordinarily successful – and then there are those who formed a “how to” around the habits of the early risers.
Rising early definitely works for those whom it “works” for.
But it’s unwise, even for Ben Franklin – or anyone living today to form a “must” or “need to” around this habit.
Rising early is a good habit that I utilize from time to time, depending upon where I am in the world and what I’m doing.
Yet, the grand majority of my greatest productivity has always come when I stayed up late – often until 3 a.m. – writing, crafting, creating and manifesting.
In an earlier time of my life, I was up at 5 a.m. and in bed by 9 pm – six days a week, and I was broker than broke.
I guess this was because I took the seventh day off. Yooouch.
Moral of the story: Be careful about universalizing a “how to” on sleeping habits of the rich and famous – or those we deem to be a “success.”
Instead, think about what works for you as a free-thinking individual. When you’ve been most successful in the past – what were your habits?
You may find that moonlighting is the ticket for you. It might be rising at 5 AM. It may be some crazy combination or amalgamation of more than one method.
Then again, you might be one of those who sleeps sparingly or sporadically – four or five hours per night.
Whatever works for you is the way for you to live your life. It’s what will probably produce your greatest successes now and in the future.
The key is reviewing your life to determine which way works the best for you – then doing it.
Matt Furey
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