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Matthew FerryMatthew Ferry is a revealer, illuminator & awakener whose point of view creates instant transformation in peoples lives. Since 1993 he has personally coached more then 8000 people, including leaders in business at esteemed companies like Goldman Sachs to cutting-edge entrepreneurs and sales people, who were all seeking to breakthrough what had been stopping them from achieving happiness. With tens of thousands of hours invested in the understanding of what causes a person to take the actions that will lead to success, Matthew has discovered a shocking truth; that happiness is the vital ingredient for creating success and NOT the result of achieving success.

If you are ready for a breakthrough, then Matthew Ferry’s provocative, left field approach will inspire and empower you to take action on your most cherished dreams NOW.

As a global thought leader in personal transformation, Matthew Ferry has penned many powerful books and life-changing seminars including Transforming Fear into Action, Creating Sales Velocity and the infamous Inspired Action Coaching Program.

In addition to his ground breaking Inspired Action Weekly Coaching Program, Matthew’s latest offering Ridiculous Bliss based on his most powerful work as a coach and trainer. Discover that your mind is not your friend, your opinion is the source of your suffering, and that nothing has to change to make you happy.


Instant Inspiration

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Table of Contents

Introduction ...................................................................... 7Strategy One - Your Prophecy Letter ...............................10Strategy Two - The 10/10 Visualization .......................... 13Strategy Three - Daily Gratitude List ..............................17Strategy Four - Daily Intentions ......................................19Strategy Five - Attracting the Perfect People .................. 21Strategy Six - Your Victories and Miracles ...................... 26Strategy Seven - Create a Dream Board .......................... 27Strategy Eight - The Power of Meditation .......................31Strategy Nine - The Power of Visualization .................... 34Strategy Ten - Power Daydreaming ................................ 35Strategy Eleven - The Power of Affirmations .................. 39Strategy Twelve - Empowering Questions .......................41Strategy Thirteen - The Power of Forgiveness ................. 44Strategy Fourteen - Trevor’s Visualizing Game ............... 47Strategy Fifteen - The Perfect Game ................................52


Instant Inspiration15 Bulletproof Strategies to Get You Inspired

and in Action on Your Dreams Now


IntroductionA young man approached the manager of a lumber mill and told him “I can

chop wood three times faster then any of your men, you should hire me.”

The manager said, “I don’t have any positions available right now, young

man. And my guys are the best in the business. So there is no way your

claim is true.” To which the young man rebutted, “If your guys are that

good, then give me a shot and prove me wrong.” The manager agreed to the

challenge. After the contest was done, the young man had chopped three

times as much wood in the same amount of time as his competitor. The

young man was hired.

After three weeks the manager noticed the young man was chopping wood

at the same rate as everyone else. He approached the young man after work

one day and declared, “I’m going to have to let you go! You aren’t keeping

your end of the bargain. You have slowed down and you are now chopping

at the same speed as everyone else.”


The young man looked defeated and replied, “I’ve been so busy chopping

wood that I haven’t had time to sharpen my ax.”

Why are success and happiness out of reach for most people? Because most

people are not inspired and consequently in action on their dreams. In this

book, you will receive 15 bulletproof strategies to get inspired today. There

is no “someday.” These strategies will give you the tools you need to short-

circuit the steps to your own success.

Every strategy is about lining up your energy, getting your mind focused

and removing the obstacles to joy, inspiration, happiness and excitement.

When you feel those things, you are on fire, loving life and totally in action.

No external motivation sources are necessary.

After personally coaching over 8,000 people one-on-one to achieve success

and happiness, I realized that what set apart the people who achieved

success from those who struggled to achieve was one simple concept.

The discipline of sharpening your mental AX! It is so easy to avoid the

disciplines that bring about long-term prosperity, happiness and peace. We

gravitate to those things that blot out the suffering of the mind. It is so

tempting to fill the mind with entertainment and bubble gum.

Every discipline in this book will help you create a life filled with

anticipation, excitement, joy and outstanding results.


It’s all about sharpening your ax. And what is your ax? Your mind, your

thoughts, your energy, your focus! Are you ready to get into that place of

joy, happiness, excitement and enthusiasm NOW?

These feelings make way for inspiration. When you are inspired you will

go the extra mile, do what is necessary to get the results you want. When

you are inspired, there is no need for motivational pep talks. When you

are inspired, you take action because you want to. You do hard things that

other people may not do, with pleasure.

Any one of the 15 strategies that follow could be the ONE idea, tool,

discipline or technique that accelerates your success and happiness into the

stratosphere this year.

Warning: Don’t make yourself wrong and beat yourself up if you don’t do

every single thing these strategies tell you to do. Just do the most you can

do. Don’t get stuck, don’t get stopped by what you are feeling or thinking

when you read the lesson. If you can’t get yourself to do it, move on to the

next one. One of my strategies is going to get you inspired and in action on

your dreams. Just keep pushing forward!


Strategy One - Your Prophecy Letter

The first thing you want to do is get out of the past, stop trying to fix

yourself, stop fretting over what you are going to do to have more success

and happiness. Stop looking at what didn’t work and start prophesizing

about your future.

In this lesson, you will write a letter as though you had achieved

everything you wanted to achieve, dated one year from today.

As background, I want you to understand that your mind, which I lovingly

call The Drunk Monkey, is not an effective tool for achieving your goals

and dreams. Your mind’s job is to keep you alive and one of the tools it uses

to keep you safe is to prophesize about negative futures and then try to

avoid them.

Hello! This is a problem. You get what you focus on. If you allow The

Drunk Monkey to focus on negative futures and try to avoid them, it

actually attracts them straight to you.


So what’s the solution? Create your own one-year prophecy letter. That is

your first strategy. Write a letter as if it is one year from now. Look back

over the last year, and describe how amazing your life has been since you

started sharpening your ax. Write the letter in present tense.

Write about everything and everyone that is important to you:

Á Family

Á Primary relationship (spouse or partner)

Á Physical health

Á Mental/emotional

Á Business

Á Finance

Á Social

Á Contribution

Á Recreation

Á Spiritual

Write it today! Write it right now! Don’t hesitate. Your letter doesn’t have

to be long. It can be two paragraphs. As long as you start thinking as

though you were already in the future you wish to create.


By the way, when I coach people through this process I usually ask them

to do one new thing every day. To help you achieve that accountability

structure I created a free 15-day version of these strategies spoon-fed to

you with audio and examples. Check it out at www.15strategies.com.


Strategy Two - The 10/10 Visualization

In this lesson, you will receive a powerful visualization tool.

Are you ready for the bottom line? Discipline creates freedom.

This is a paradox because most people live like it is the other way around.

People say to me, “How can I be free if I am disciplined?” Some of my

clients say to me, “If I am doing things in a regimented way, then I am not

giving myself the freedom and flexibility I need to be happy.”

The opposite is actually true. If you are not disciplining yourself, you are not

likely to experience the freedom to be happy. Discipline gives

you the skills, mindset, and power to create the circumstances in your life

that will light you up, and make you happy.

Think about Olympic figure skaters. They display an amazing freedom

on the ice. How did they get this freedom? In most cases, that freedom


of movement on the ice was preceded by a decade or more of rigid daily

discipline.

True freedom happens through discipline. The following discipline will

increase the magic in your life. My students experience amazing results as a

result of doing this exercise every day

10/10 Visualization

Are you ready to create some wild results in your life? Big dreams and big

manifestations will spring forth from the daily use of this technique.

Counting your blessings each day is essential for explosive growth. The

more you study my material, the more you naturally become grateful and

inspired. That’s what it takes to transform your life, to create the maximum

power to manifest your dreams. The universe is happy to provide for you, as

long as you are happy about what you already have. If you are dissatisfied

with your current situation, that energy muddlesup your intentions. The

more dissatisfied you are, the more you receive that which dissatisfies you.

Remember, this is an attraction-based universe.

From gratefulness, powerful manifesting becomes possible. Here’s what you

are going to do to become more grateful and put this power to work for

you:


Make a list of 10 things you love about your life, your family, your job, your

product, the opportunities you have, and your customers. Include anything

that works well in your life, anything you like, and all the people you are

happy about having in your life. Then add things you are thankful for.

Make a list of 10 things you want to accomplish: your goals, dreams,

visions, and aspirations in life.

Once you have the lists, you can begin this discipline. Every morning, find

a comfortable place to sit with your back straight and feet on the ground.

Before you start, take a moment to review both lists. Then, close your eyes

and take 10 deep breaths. Hold each breath as long as you can. Then blow

it out slowly.

Now, that you are in a very powerful, conscious state, mentally review your

list of everything that is good, that you are happy about. Dwell on each

item. Get really connected with how great it is to have this in your life. Let

the emotions of gratitude well up inside of you and overflow. It’s okay to

cry tears of joy. In fact, that’s the objective.

Once you have spent some time truly appreciating your life mentally,

shift to your list of things you want to accomplish. But keep the feeling of

gratitude. First think about how amazing your life is that you have these

kinds of objectives. Then start being thankful for each item as if it had

already come true, or was already happening or occurring right now. Think


about it the same way you thought about the first list. Let your imagination

run away with you.

One of the key elements to this visualization is getting emotional. By

goosing up the desire, you turbo-boost the results you achieve. During each

10/10 Visualization exercise, work to charge your emotions with gratitude

and get as excited as you can about how great your life is. Then transfer

that same excitement to your desired outcomes and dreams. Get excited as

if your dreams are coming true right now. You have hit maximum power

when you are moved to tears of joy for the opportunities the universe has

provided you.

Note that you won’t always be able to create the feelings you want, so don’t

make yourself wrong when it is not as intense as it was before. Keep doing

the 10/10 Visualization and your emotions will eventually ramp up.

Do it now! Don’t wait. Make your list of 10 things you love about your

life and 10 goals and dreams. Do it now. Get in action. Open up a Word

Document, get out a scratch pad, send it in an e-mail to yourself, do it now.

If you are in breakdown, this is your ticket out. If you are on a roll in your

life, this will keep you rolling.


Strategy Three - Daily Gratitude List

In this lesson, you write what you feel gratitude about every day.

It’s all about gratitude! Your life rocks. The Drunk Monkey (remember, this

is what I call the mind) won’t let you acknowledge it. Why? The mind is

focused on survival. Its goal is to keep you safe, and it does this by trying

to prevent your negative future. As a result you ruminate about potential

negative futures and set into motion a pathway to create more of what you

don’t want in your life.

The Drunk Monkey and The Law of Attraction are definitely not friends!

You may be interested in these highlights from a research project on

gratitude and thankfulness from UC Davis and University of Miami. Here

is the synopsis. Gratitude is the “forgotten factor” in happiness research.

This is a long-term research project designed to create and disseminate a

large body of novel scientific data on the nature of gratitude, its causes, and

its potential consequences for human health and well-being.


In an experimental comparison, those who kept gratitude journals on a

weekly basis exercised more regularly, reported fewer negative physical

symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic

about the upcoming week compared to those who recorded hassles or

neutral life events (Emmons & McCullough, 2003).

A related benefit was observed in the realm of personal goal attainment.

Participants who kept gratitude lists were more likely to have made

progress toward important personal goals compared to subjects in the other

experimental conditions.

A daily gratitude intervention (self-guided exercise) with young adults

resulted in higher reported levels of the positive states of alertness,

enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness and energy compared to a focus

on hassles or a downward social comparison (ways in which participants

thought they were better off than others). There was no difference in levels

of unpleasant emotions reported in the groups.

Today start a gratitude list, journal, book, word doc, however you will most

easily integrate the practice of feeling grateful into your life.


Strategy Four - Daily Intentions

In this lesson, you will write your intentions every day.

Do you know how amazing you are? The very fact that you are reading

the “Instant Inspiration” is totally amazing! Just take a moment and think

about how committed you are. Take a deep breath, put your shoulders back,

shake your head yes and think, “You are right, Matthew Ferry, I am totally

committed to having the best year of my life.”

Remember the young man with the ax? He could cut trees three times

faster then anyone else when he spent time sharpening his ax. You are

going to start experiencing some miracles here. I define miracles as good,

unexpected experiences that occur in your life.

To experience unbelievable good fortune in your life simply write down

your intentions every day. What do you want? What would you like to have

show up at your doorstep? What are you creating? Are you living your life

by default or by design? What do you want in your life?


More money Better relationships

More business Happiness

Kids to thrive The perfect mate

The perfect job Opportunities

To be creative

Many people want what they feel will make them look good or fit in. Most

people are just tolerating their lives. It takes courage to ask for what you

really want.

When you declare your manifestation, it becomes 90 percent complete.

You are declaring all the time. Most people don’t declare intentionally.

Complaints are intentions. Gossip is an intention. Describing what

happened is an intention. Describing what you don’t want is an intention.

Analyzing is an intention. What you intend will happen so begin to listen

to yourself today.

Write down three things you want in your life now. Don’t wait. I’m your

coach! I’m your trainer! Do it now. My job is to push you to go beyond the

Drunk Monkey. Go beyond the resistance. Let’s go. Write something down

now. If you want to really amplify your power, declare what you want to a

community of people who will support you.


Strategy Five - Attracting the Perfect People

In this lesson, you will get perfect clarity around what you want to attract

into your life.

In my training course “Awakening Sales Velocity” I systematically

train people to become magnetic to opportunities. I call it opportunity

consciousness. The action of being aware of what you want brings it to you.

Now here’s the interesting twist. Opportunities come in the form of people.

The people you meet hold the opportunities. The questions are: Will you

know them when you see them?

Imagine attending a gathering and people feel compelled to walk up to you

and start a conversation. How many more opportunities would come your

way if people were interested in you? The millionaires I’ve coached over the

years are people magnets.

Are you ready for that? Are you ready to become a people magnet and


attract the opportunities you have always desired? The trick will totally blow

you away. Listen to this one word. Clarity! Clarity is powerful. Clarity is

attractive. Clarity is totally free. Anyone can have it. Here is how it works.

Have you ever been in the market to buy a new car? Remember when you

made the decision on the car you were going to buy? Suddenly, you started

seeing that particular model everywhere! It was as if everyone decided

to buy the same car you were going to buy. Is that true? No. People were

driving those cars the whole time, long before you got in the market to buy

one. You just weren’t aware of it.

Science tells us that we are exposed to more than one billion bits of

information every second and our brain cannot process it. In fact, our brain

can only deal with seven (plus or minus two) things at any given time. As

it turns out, the world is filled with what you want, and all you have to do

is become clear about what is wanted and it will mysteriously appear. Isn’t

that crazy?

If you are anything like me, you probably have felt like you’ve had to

work hard to make things happen in life. It didn’t seem like anything was

mysteriously appearing for me, early in my life. But as soon as a millionaire

friend if mine taught me this concept everything changed. Are you ready

for things to get a lot easier?


The moment you get clear about the people you want to attract into your

life, the perfect people appear. Now, take a minute to think about that.

The moment you put your attention on something like dream clients, angel

investors, the perfect mate, or your champion or advocate, they start to

appear everywhere. Isn’t that exciting?

You are about to discover that you are surrounded by people who would

love to send business your way, or give you that opportunity you have been

seeking. You are too busy focusing on their absence to see them. OUCH!

And by the way, it’s not magic. It’s brain science. But I don’t want to bore

you with those details now. Let’s get focused on attracting the perfect

people with the perfect opportunities now.

Clarity is the answer. So let’s get clear, right now. You can use this exercise

to determine the qualities and characteristics of the perfect clients, the

perfect customer, the perfect business partner, the perfect bringer of

opportunity, the perfect employee. Whoever you wish to attract into your

life now can be attracted, if you will get clarity. Let’s use the example of the

perfect client. Remember we could just as easily substitute perfect client for

perfect mate, investor, employee or collaborator.


Dream Client Exercise:

Open a Word Document or pull out a note pad and get ready to write.

Answer this question: have you ever worked with a client that was truly a

pleasure to work with?

If not, can you imagine what they would be like? For example, what would

it be like to do a deal with your most trusting and easy going friend? With

that person in mind, make a list of qualities, characteristics and attributes

of your dream client. Expand your list by answering questions to help you

discover your Dream Client.

Á What is their attitude?

Á What kind of positive behaviors do they display around you?

Á How do you feel around them?

Á How do they treat you?

Á What is your communication like with them?

Á How do they speak to others about you?

Á What are they committed to in your relationship?

Á How many referrals do they send you?


Now type that list up and keep a copy in your car to review before

appointments. Put a copy up on the fridge at home so you see it every day.

Keep a copy in your office and review it in the morning before you start

the day. Keep a folded up copy in your wallet or purse. This way you see it

often, and even if you don’t read it, the fact that it is there will make you

think about it again. Keep a copy next to your bed and each night, and say

to yourself, “Thank you for sending me Dream Clients” and then review

your list before you close your eyes.

Now, you can use this process for anyone you want to attract.

Consider this. You are reading this because I made my perfect client list

and you showed up! I’ve also got a list for my perfect Joint Venture Partner,

my perfect employee, my perfect creative partner, my perfect mate, and

even for my perfect child.

Remember, if you want me to spoon feed these lessons to you everyday

check out www.15strategies.com.


Strategy Six - Your Victories and Miracles

In this lesson you will discover you are what you think about.

You must learn to focus on your wins, not your losses. You get what you focus on. You become what you think about. Your thoughts are powerful magnets. So what are you focusing on?

Great stuff happens to you. You have wins, victories, you overcome obstacles, you do the right thing, and you do something extraordinary all the time. Do you know that about yourself ?

Of course not! The Drunk Monkey (your mind) doesn’t have time for acknowledgement. Plus, the Drunk Monkey will tell you it’s silly to acknowledge yourself. The Drunk Monkey and the Law of Attraction are definitely not allies.

You get what you focus on. The Drunk Monkey focuses on what’s wrong, what needs to be fixed, what’s broken, and what might happen that needs

to be avoided.


So how do you get yourself out of the self-fulfilling prophecy of negativity

and downward spirals? Focus your energy on the positive wins. Journal your

wins, victories and miracles every single day.

Do you ever have a down day where you feel glum, feel off, not quite on the

ball? You can open up your victory journal and revisit how magical your life

has been.

Do it now. Write down all the wins, victories and miracles you’ve

experienced over the last few days. Get in the habit. Take time to sharpen

your ax every day.


Strategy Seven - Create a Dream Board

In this lesson, you will focus on what happens when life is as good as it gets.

What has happened to you since you began reading “Instant Inspiration”?

Are you reading this all in one sitting, or have you paused with days in

between to integrate the material? If you are reading this over the course

of a week or several days, you are probably already experiencing some

miraculous things in your life. Are you feeling more optimism, more joy

and more inspiration? Share those feelings with others and watch it grow.

Would you like to share a testimonial with me? If you would like to share

a testimonial about how great your life is becoming send me an email at

[email protected]

Thank you in advance! Your testimony will help you expand your good

feelings and it will help me to change the world and bring billions of

people in to a state of happiness and peace!


Now, it is time to sharpen your ax!

If life was as good as it gets, what would it look like?

Á What are your dreams?

Á What do you want?

Á What kind of house do you want?

Á What kind of car do you want to drive?

Á Do you want a spouse? Do you want a revitalized relationship with your spouse?

Á What are the ultimate vacation spots for you?

Á Do you want a boat, a yacht or several yachts?

The world is your oyster! You can have anything you want.

Here’s the assignment:

1. Go buy a ton of magazines. Buy a journal – I like a spiral pad.

2. Cut out all the pictures that remind you of the life you are creating.

3. Paste them in the book in a meaningful way. Keep the book by your bed and review it daily

4. Daydream, fantasize and feel what it would be like to have everything you want in your life.


Do it today! Create a dream book that visually represents what your life

would look like at its peak. The best life you can think of.


Strategy Eight - The Power of Meditation

In this lesson you will discover the power of meditation.

Nothing has made a bigger difference in my life then meditation.

Isn’t that an odd thing to think about? The practice of sitting silently and

not doing anything has made the biggest difference in my life. Meditation

is the process of self-mastery. It is mastery of the mind. Meditation gets

you connected with who you really are. Meditation frees you from the grip

of The Drunk Monkey who can be belligerent, nasty, and judgmental and

mean to you.

In meditation, you realize that your mind is not your friend. You realize

that your mind is just biology. It is energy moving through fields of

neurons in your brain. Your mind does not listen to you. It may or may not

like you. It isn’t interested in you being inspired. Meditation is the process

of observing your mind and noticing how funny it is. Once you can see


your mind for what it really is, it starts to shut up and not be so dominant

in your consciousness.

As you see your mind for what it is (just biology), your confidence soars.

You begin to feel like you are on the right path. Even when the future is

unclear, you trust that you are going to be taken care of. It’s awesome. You

will love it. Confidence, certainty and trust become yours for no reason, just

because you are alive.

Doesn’t that sound crazy? The Drunk Monkey is exactly the opposite. The

Drunk Monkey is about fear, anger, distrust, skepticism, and hesitance.

There is nothing wrong with that; it is just that you get what you focus on.

So let me lead you in a very simple meditation right now.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep full breath.

Keep taking deep full breaths all the way down to your belly.

Even push your belly out with the breaths.

Nice and slow, begin to allow yourself to feel totally relaxed.

Relax your effort.

Relax your shoulders.


Now I want you to breathe in and say to yourself “I wonder what my next

thought will be?” and hold your breath until it comes. The next time you

breathe in, say it again “I wonder what my next thought will be?” and hold

your breath until a thought comes. When a thought comes, exhale, and as

you are breathing in say “I wonder what my next thought will be?” and keep

going for about 30 seconds.

Every day, maybe while you are driving, or maybe in the shower, spend a

couple minutes saying to yourself “I wonder what my next thought will be?”

Just notice.

Get out of judgment. It’s not bad that you have to poop. Pooping isn’t

wonderful, it’s stinky and inconvenient, but you don’t make it wrong, you

just accept it as a part of your experience. The same thing could be said

about thinking. It is not wrong; it is just a part of your experience. You have

just accidentally made it important when it is not.

Inspiration flows in moments of no thought. Sharpen your ax.


Strategy Nine - The Power of Visualization

This lesson shows the power of visualizing outcomes every day, all day long.

In my powerful teleseminar “Awakening Sales Velocity” I share how to

utilize the power of visualization to attract sales effortlessly. These people

want to attract more prosperity, abundance and good fortune into their

lives. The class has gotten bigger and bigger over the years because of word

of mouth. Everyone who takes it says the same thing “I had no idea that

my life could accelerate that fast, just by getting control over my mind.”

Visualization is one of the most powerful tools for taking control of

the mind, and you are going to start doing it today. I learned it from

professional athletes, who pioneered the process and brought it into the

mainstream in the early 1970s.

So how do you do it?


First of all, remember that your mind is not your friend and your

mind is not interested in your goals and dreams. Your mind, aka The

Drunk Monkey, is interested in survival and keeping you alive. It ’s like

the CIA for the body, so it is not going to cooperate most of the time

and it will quickly lapse into a sea of crazy thoughts that are totally

random and completely off track. Don’t make The Drunk Monkey

wrong, just gently point The Drunk Monkey back to the images you

want to be focused on. With practice you will be able to hold images

for several minutes.

What should you visualize? What do you want? What is the

outcome? How do you want to behave? What results do you want to

produce?

When should you visualize?

Á Before anything important

Á Before a meeting

Á Before you perform

Á Before you drive your car

Á Before you create something

Á Before you get to a parking lot


My kids visualize before they take tests, before they play soccer, before

taking a golf swing. You become what you think about. You thoughts

become things. Where your attention goes, energy flows.


Strategy Ten - Power Daydreaming

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…I know I can! You are two-thirds

of the way through “Instant Inspiration”

In this lesson, you will discover power daydreaming. This tool will rock

your world.

You are working on being able to chop three times more wood in the same

time as everyone else. How? By keeping your ax sharp! Most people make

the mistake of getting in action too soon. They don’t take the time to line

their energy up, get their mind clear and focus on what they want. We are

going to get that negative self-talking nasty Drunk Monkey in your head

sober and in shape to make this the best year of your life.


Power Daydreaming

Every day you spend countless hours chewing on thoughts like a cow

chewing on cud. Round and round your mind goes like a hamster on a

wheel, lots of thinking with no particular results in mind.

As a student of Matthew Ferry International, you are now going to utilize

that mindless time for power daydreaming. Catch it when your mind is

wandering and bring it back into focus. How do you want your days to

look? What outcome do you want to produce with this next sales call?

How will your life be 10 years from now? Who is your perfect client and

what makes them so perfect? By spending your time daydreaming about

these things, you keep the Law of Attraction working for you all day. Next

thing you know, you’re living your dreams.

Power daydreaming. Catch your mind wandering and visualize something

you want. Play with it all day today.


Strategy Eleven - The Power of Affirmations

In today’s lesson you will re-discover the power of affirmations.

Are you even using affirmations in your life today? I don’t have to tell you

that your life is created from the thoughts you think repetitively. Your

life today is the sum total of what you were thinking previously. And

your future will be what you think about today. I’m going to say it again:

“This is an attraction-based universe, and your thoughts are like powerful

magnets.”

Affirmations are pre-written thoughts. Thoughts are magnets for

experience.

Use this process to create your affirmations.


1. Identify what you want: your goals, dreams, visions, and aspirations.

2. Identify what behaviors cause those results. For example, in my book “Creating Sales Velocity” we talk about the Conscious Salesperson. To become a Conscious Salesperson, one of the goals is to accept people exactly the way they are. To achieve this, you look for what you like about each person you meet.

3. Identify how thoughts cause your behaviors. For example: If you were going to find something you liked about everybody, a thought that might cause you to do that would be something like, “People are interesting.”

4. Turn those thoughts into affirmations.

Á Affirmations should be first person “I am”

Á Affirmations should be present tense

Á Affirmations should be action-oriented: “I find people interesting. I look for what I love about everyone I meet.”

As you get more excited about your own affirmations, let’s talk about ways

to use them. Some of my clients like writing them down every day. Others

have found that reading them each day is a powerful mental programming

tool. A lot of my clients have found someone else who is equally interested

in using affirmations and have arranged a time each day to call each other

and say their affirmations out loud to each other.


Strategy Twelve - Empowering Questions

Are you inspired? Have you done everything I’ve asked you to do? Of course

not! Don’t make yourself the bad guy! You are doing the best you can!

In this lesson, you will begin to ask yourself empowering questions.

Remember I said at the beginning, do what you can. Do what is

comfortable. One shift has the power to change your life forever. But let me

tell you a little secret.

It’s done. You are cooked. Your life has already changed. Exposure to

“Instant Inspiration” is all it takes. Even if you didn’t do a single thing I

asked, exposure to this material is inescapable in its power to change your

life forever.

Now, ask yourself empowering questions. Here is a sample of the questions

I like to ask myself…


Á Which feelings will make my life enjoyable today?

Á Why is today perfect?

Á What is perfect about my family?

Á What’s perfect in my life?

Á What do I love about my job?

Á What do I love about my products and services?

Á What do I want the universe to line up for me today?

Á How do I want my day to look?

Now it’s your turn. Write down two questions that will empower you today.

What are they? Write, right now. Read my questions again and see if any of

them inspire you.

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The Drunk Monkey loves to ask questions like “Why me? What if it

doesn’t work? How come everyone else? Where’s mine? How come I didn’t

get it?”

The Drunk Monkey learned about life by the time you were two or three

years old and if you really got honest, it hasn’t changed. Your mind is not

a grown up. It’s a toddler stuck in the Terrible Twos forever. Today, take

conscious control over The Drunk Monkey and ask it questions that will

get it moving in the direction that you want.


Strategy Thirteen - The Power of Forgiveness

In this powerful lesson, you release yourself from anger, frustration and pain.

This is the time to lift the curse of The Drunk Monkey! The Drunk

Monkey’s job is to keep you alive. Your mind’s job is to keep you alive. How

does it do it? It generalizes! You walk over you pet a dog the dog bites

you….Ouch! Next time you see a dog, what does The Drunk Monkey tell

you to do? Stay away! The Drunk Monkey generalizes that all dogs bite,

but they don’t!

The Drunk Monkey has been a very powerful survival mechanism over the

centuries and because of it, we have such a wonderful standard of living

today.

But it has gone too far. There are people in your life who did something to

you and it hurt you, or it almost hurt you, or they broke your trust, broke your

expectations. Now The Drunk Monkey is trying to keep you safe from them.


This is one of the most destructive side effects of The Drunk Monkey.

Consider this: Most people are trying to keep themselves safe from their

parents. Hello, your parents only want the best for you, no matter what you

think.

There are some people who are trying to protect themselves from their

spouses, lovers, partners and significant others. That person did something a

while back, and now The Monkey tells us not to trust them! Are we crazy?

We let The Drunk Monkey kill off our loved ones.

Who do you need to forgive in your life today? Release yourself from the

destructive focus of protection, anger, frustration, fear, anxiety and hate. The

more you try to hold the people you know or have known accountable for

some wrong doing of the past, the more you bring it upon yourself again

and again.

In my private coaching practice, one of our first initiatives is to assist you

in becoming free from the hallucination that you are a victim. I coach my

clients to let go of the past, forgive all who have done them wrong, and step

into their power as the creator of their experience. Let’s begin the process

now, shall we?

There are no victims. Victim is code for “I’m not responsible for where

I put my thoughts.” Victim means I am unwilling to be responsible for


my perception and my reaction. Victim means powerless. Is that you?

Powerless? I don’t think so.

Therefore, it’s time to release the victim mindset and forgive someone

important. Who is it going to be? Who are you making wrong? Who are

you blaming? Who are you holding accountable that doesn’t even know it?

Write down the name, right now! Who are you going to forgive in your life?

To take this to the next level, make a list and systematically forgive every

single person in your life all the way back to when you were a toddler.

Inspiration is your natural state! Inspiration occurs when you remove the

toxic irresponsible thinking of the victim. Inspiration happens when you

admit that you are the creator of your experience and you are no longer the

victim of your circumstances.


Strategy Fourteen - Trevor’s Visualizing Game

You are on fire! You are unstoppable! Your intention to get inspired and

in action on your dreams now is happening! Yes! I honor you! I appreciate

you! What a blessing to have someone like you in my life.

But there is no secret behind why you are here. I wrote down my qualities

and characteristics of my perfect clients and here you are! So are you ready

for your second to last strategy to get you inspired and in action on your

dreams now?

In today’s lesson, you will learn Trevor’s Visualizing Game.

When my son Trevor was five years old, I decided he was mentally ready to

start acknowledging himself as the creator of his experience. I wanted to teach

Trevor that work and effort were not required to produce results. I wanted to

teach Trevor that his life was nothing more than a result of what his dominant

thoughts were. But how do you teach that concept to a five-year-old?


After thinking about this for a while, I decided to invent a game, knowing

full well that lecturing him as if he were my student would produce

laughable results at best, and turn him off to the concept. I told Trevor that

he had the ability to produce magical results, if he would just practice. I

told him that whatever he visualized would come true and I proposed the

game. After discussing it, Trevor decided to call it the Visualizing Game.

Here’s how it worked. Every night before he went to bed, I asked Trevor

to choose something he wanted to experience. We started off simple. I

asked, “What would you like to see in your life?” and Trevor responded,

“I want to see a blue butterfly!” I said, “Okay! A blue butterfly. Let’s see it

in our minds and show the universe what we want.” We both visualized it

and then I said to him, “Now, remember that the universe is very excited

to show you a blue butterfly, so let’s start looking for one the moment we

wake up.” Trevor was always enthusiastic.

At first it took us a couple of days or even weeks to manifest the result, but

sure enough, we would see what we visualized. Over and over, we played

this game, never choosing something new until our current visualization

had manifested. When the universe delivered what we had visualized, we

always got excited. Sometimes, Trevor would choose things that would

cause me to doubt. One time he said, “I want to visualize a golden eagle!”

Now I live in California, by the beach, and there are no eagles here, and


definitely no golden eagles. So I worried that this would be the end of the

game, we would never see a golden eagle and he would begin to disbelieve

in his power.

What I didn’t acknowledge was the power of my own doubt. Clearly my

doubt was sending the opposite message because three, then four, and

then five weeks went by and we had not seen a golden eagle. This was the

longest it had ever taken to manifest something. It had been so much time

that I had forgotten we were even looking. That was the trick! I let go of

my doubt and resistance; in the sixth week Trevor and I were sitting in a

bagel shop. Next-door was a bank whose emblem was a giant golden eagle.

Trevor jumped out of his chair and said, “Look, Daddy! A golden eagle!

The universe did it again!”

Now it’s your turn. The discipline of being the creator of your experience

becomes proactive with the Trevor’s Visualizing Game.

Each day, choose something small and unique that you want to manifest.

Don’t choose something new until it has manifested. Don’t get crazy and

say, “I’m going to visualize a million dollars showing up on my doorstep.”

Your doubt will kill that off in a heartbeat. Start simple. Build your belief

and confidence that you really are the creator of your experience. This is a

discipline, like getting up early in the morning. You aren’t going to one day

start getting up at 4:45 a.m. to work out if for years you’ve been getting up

at 8:30 a.m. You need to start slow and build some momentum.


Don’t get attached to the result or how it looks. Remember, the universe

will always deliver the essence of what you want. For example: Trevor and

I were on a trip to visit his grandparents in Oregon. We hadn’t been there

for a couple of years. On our drive from the airport I said, “Let’s visualize

something!” Trevor, always game, said, “I want to visualize horses with

hearts on them.” “Okay,” I said, “horses with hearts, let’s visualize.” Well,

about an hour later we drove through this incredibly huge horse farm with

thousands of horses everywhere. But no hearts! So we brushed it off and

said, “The universe only got the message for horses and wow, did it deliver!

Thanks, universe!”

About an hour later, we arrived at the house. Trevor’s grandparents showed

us to our room, which was filled with hearts printed on everything. There

were little hearts everywhere! We asked for horses with hearts on them, and

we got horses, and then we got the hearts.

Trevor received a valuable lesson: The universe will always provide. Just

don’t be attached to how it looks. If you visualize a green pencil, you might

see green everywhere all day long and a pencil at the end of the evening.

Mission accomplished.

The purpose of this game is to continue to build your belief that you are the

creator of your experience of life. So what’s it going to be? What will you

manifest today with the power of your thought?


Remember, the less you care about seeing it, the faster it will come. The

more attached you are, the slower it comes. This is why it takes so long to

manifest your big dreams. Don’t get me wrong, your big dreams are coming.

It is just that you send mixed signals. I want a million dollars…why does

my life suck so bad…I need a million dollars to fix it…because my life

sucks so bad…won’t it be great when I get a million dollars…because right

now it sucks so bad.

Stop…start…stop…start.

God, source, universe…is listening and wants to deliver on intentions you

are setting. Your job is to be in gleeful anticipation.


Strategy Fifteen - The Perfect Game

In this lesson, you learn “The Perfect Game”.

Which of the strategies have you completed? Here are the previous

strategies, in review:

1. One Year Prophecy Letter

2. 10/10 Visualization

3. Gratitude list

4. Setting intentions

5. Your Perfect Customer Attraction List, Your Perfect Mate List, etc.

6. Win book

7. Dream book

8. Meditation


9. Visualization

10. Power daydreaming

11. Affirmations

12. Empowering questions

13. Forgiveness

14. Trevor’s Visualizing Game

And that leads us to our final strategy for sharpening your ax, The Perfect

Game.

The Perfect Game is a discipline. It acknowledges fully that you are the

creator of your experience. It acknowledges that nothing comes to you that

your thoughts and vibrations haven’t attracted. Your dominant thoughts are

bringing you exactly what you desire. You just have to get out of the way.

Here are the rules:

Whatever is offered, take it.

This is such an important rule. First of all, it allows the whole world of

people to whom you contribute, to contribute back to you. Nothing gives

people more satisfaction than being able to contribute. When you allow

people to contribute to you, they allow you to contribute to them. It’s the

Law of Reciprocity. The people in your life, including your clients, would


love nothing more than to tell everyone they know about what you do. You

must use the Law of Reciprocity to your advantage. Allow others to give

to you, and they will allow you to give to them. That’s one reason to accept

what is offered.

Second, when you simply accept whatever is offered to you, the excitement

in your life accelerates massively. Suddenly you are receiving all sorts of

magical gifts that you never would have dreamed would come your way.

And because you are going to follow the third rule of

The Perfect Game, you will find yourself enjoying all sorts of new things

and experiences that will make you feel more alive than you have ever been.

All that you have been thinking about is on its way to you, the moment you

think of it. The problem for most of us is that we stop the universe dead

in its tracks with our doubts. This discipline of accepting what is offered

acknowledges that the universe will deliver whatever we are focused on.

Keep remembering that you must detach yourself from the way your visions

are supposed to look and turn out.

Here’s an example. A couple years back I got it in my head that I wanted

a Ferrari for free. I told my wife that I was going to play a game with the

universe. I was going to begin thanking the universe, in advance, for a free

Ferrari. About two months latter, my father called me out of the blue and


offered to give me his new wife’s Lexus sport sedan. He already had three

amazing cars and she was going to drive one of them now that they were

married.

Of course, because I play The Perfect Game, I accepted the car on the spot.

A week after driving the car it occurred to me in a meditation that the

Lexus had the essence of what a Ferrari represented to me. It was fast, slick

looking, and luxurious. It wasn’t the Ferrari by any means, yet everything I

thought the Ferrari would be was represented in the car. And best of all, it

was free. Start accepting what ever is offered today and get ready for your

dreams to start rushing into your life.

Whatever is suggested, do it.

Wow! Can you feel the adventure your life is becoming by taking on this

discipline? You will now begin experiencing the things you have always

wanted to experience but have never had the courage to really ask for. The

universe can’t wait to deliver on your every desire.

The discipline of doing whatever is suggested continues your quest for

flexibility. It assists you in appreciating all that life has to offer. It opens

up the possibilities of what you feel is acceptable. The more you open up

to differences, the more power you have. You truly amplify the energy of

attraction when you find joy in all that is suggested to you.


Whatever happens, declare it perfect.

This is the culmination of everything we have been talking about. Go

with the flow. Release your opinion of how things are supposed to be and

instead enjoy what they are. Give up all your rules about how things have

to be in order for you to enjoy them. Give up all the restrictions around

what must happen for life to be right. Give up the constant comparing:

“This is good, this is bad.” These are all just arbitrary points of view.

Looking at it from a different perspective gives you a different judgment.

You become the calming person in every situation, which means you are a

leader. People follow leaders, and mastering the techniques my company

teaches ultimately means you become a great leader. People trust you when

you can make anything and everything okay. Playing the Perfect Game

does just that.

Playing The Perfect Game for one month means you will have the most

amazing, tantalizing, extraordinary month of your life! Miracles occur

as you “accept” whatever is happening and declare everything “perfect!”

You’ll find yourself lit up, alive, and invigorated while playing this game.

That feeling is the most attractive feeling a human being can have. You are

sending out the message of abundance. Abundance is flying at you right

this very second; Just thinking about the game and the possibilities causes

it to happen.


I challenge you to play this game for the next 30 days. It will blow your

mind how much luck, synchronicity and good fortune will come your way.

So now it’s time to figure out what’s next. Let’s play some more together.

I would love to support you in taking your life to the next level. I know

what we have done here has absolutely started the ball rolling. Now what?

You can’t just quit sharpening your ax. Remember the young man at the

lumber mill? After three weeks of chopping and no sharpening he was as

ordinary as everyone else. Head on over to www.matthewferry.com to keep

this inspiration going. I’ve got a bunch of free stuff to keep you inspired.

Thank you for giving yourself the gift of Inspired Action! The world is a

better place because of people like you.

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