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Matthew Ferry

Matthew Ferry has been committed to helping people achieve maximum performance in allareas of their lives since 1989. His holistic approach to success has been developed over the

past two decades through his hands on coaching process. He has individually coached over

8,000 people to succeed and trained over 58,000 people who were committed to having abreakthrough.

Known as the “Turn Around Coach”, Matthew has demonstrated that he can get anyone tosucceed and achieve their dreams. Whether you’re a novice or someone at the top your field,

Matthew’s unique, multi-disciplined approach empowers you to breakthrough the barriers to

success and fulfillment. While Matthew’s clients have come to him for breakthroughs insuccess, they find that every aspect of their life improves.

In 2005, Matthew founded Matthew Ferry International dedicated to teach the principles of

prosperity, happiness and peace.

Matthew Ferry International is a life coaching and executive coaching firm whose primary

goal is to empower individuals to live in a state of blissful happiness while producingoutrageous results in their life and business.

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Instant Inspiration15 Bulletproof Strategies to Get You Inspired and in Action on Your Dreams Now

Copyright ©Matthew Ferry 2008

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form withoutwritten permission of the Author.

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Table of Contents:Introduction, 6

Strategy One - One-Year Prophecy Letter, 10

Strategy Two - 10/10 Visualization, 13

Strategy Three - Gratitude list, 19

Strategy Four - Setting intentions, 22

Strategy Five - Attracting the Perfect People, 25

Strategy Six - Win book, 32

Strategy Seven - Dream book, 34

Strategy Eight - Meditation, 37

Strategy Nine - Visualization, 41

Strategy Ten - Power daydreaming, 45

Strategy Eleven - Affirmations, 47

Strategy Twelve - Empowering questions, 51

Strategy Thirteen - Forgiveness, 54

Strategy Fourteen - Trevor’s Visualizing Game, 59

Strategy Fifteen - The Perfect Game, 66

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Instant Inspiration

15 Bulletproof Strategies to Get You Inspiredand in Action on Your Dreams Now

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Introduction

A 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 busychopping 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 8,200 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

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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 withanticipation, 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.

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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!

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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.

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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. Lookback over the last year, and describe how amazing your life has been

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

You can see an example of mine at www.15strategies.com

Write about everything and everyone that is important to you:

• Family

• Primary relationship (spouse or partner)

• Physical health

• Mental/emotional

• Business

• Finance

• Social

• Contribution

• Recreation

• Spiritual

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Write the letter and then email it to me at [email protected]

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.

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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

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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.

The 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 muddles

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up 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.

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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.

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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 aWord 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. If you want an audio version of this

visualization, check out Amplifying Your Money Magnetism on my

main site www.matthewferry.com

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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? If

you’ve been through my “Being Unstoppable Teleseminar” then you

know.

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.

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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 anddisseminate 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). Go to

www.15strategies.com to download a copy of the study.

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.

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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.

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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. Miracles I define as

good, unexpected experiences that occur in your life.

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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 relationshipsMore 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.

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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.

I’ve created such a community at www.contributiongame.com.

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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 seven-week 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?

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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 totallyblow 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

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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.

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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 easilysubstitute 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.

4 What is their attitude?

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What kind of positive behaviors do they display around you?4 How do you feel around them?

4 How do they treat you?

4 What is your communication like with them?

4 How do they speak to others about you?

4 What are they committed to in your relationship?

4 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

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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

with audio and lots of special gifts check out www.15strategies.com.

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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

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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.

In all my courses, students log wins, victories and miracles every day.

You can do it at www.contributiongame.com . 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. Join our community at

www.contributiongame.comand we will all celebrate your amazing life together.

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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.

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

share a testimonial go to www.15strategies.com and tell me about how

great your life is becoming.

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?

• What are your dreams?

• What do you want?

• What kind of house do you want?

• What kind of car do you want to drive?

• Do you want a spouse? Do you want a revitalized relationship

with your spouse?

• What are the ultimate vacation spots for you?

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

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

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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 daily4. 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.

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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

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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.

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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 nextthought 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.

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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.”

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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?

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4 Before anything important

4 Before a meeting

4 Before you perform

4 Before you drive your car

4 Before you create something

4 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.

I’ve got a special gift for you today. Participants in the “Awakening

Sales Velocity” teleseminar receive six visualizations that support them

in manifesting and attracting more sales and more opportunities. So

click the link, and you may download the “All is Well” visualization

that I created for the “Awakening Sales Velocity” teleseminar. Go to

www.15strategies.com to download or listen to the All is Well

Visualization. It will get you in a very inspired state.

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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.

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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 yourdays 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.

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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.

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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 goalsis 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.

• Affirmations should be first person “I am”

• Affirmations should be present tense

• 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

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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. If this sounds interesting, go to www.contributiongame.com

to find partners. Join our community; we would love to get to know

you.

Being a music producer and songwriter for my entire life, I took my

favorite affirmations and I turned them into songs. I created two CD’s

called “NRG Affirmations” and I created super fun high-energy dance

music and embedded them with powerful affirmations. This is the

ultimate music to play on your headphones while at the gym or when

you want positive, uplifting and peppy background music in your

environment.

I am giving you the first three songs of my Energy Affirmations CD to

get you pumped up. Enjoy. Thank you for being in my life. You make a

big difference for me and my family. Claim them at

www.15strategies.com

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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

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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…

4 Which feelings will make my life enjoyable today?4 Why is today perfect?

4 What is perfect about my family?

4 What’s perfect in my life?

4 What do I love about my job?

4 What do I love about my products and services?

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

4 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 isnot 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.

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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 thatall dogs bite, but they don’t!

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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 yousafe 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

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accountable for some wrong doing of the past, the more you bring it

upon yourself again and again.

In the Inspired Action Coaching Program, one of our first initiatives is to

assist you in becoming free from the hallucination that you are a victim.

We coach our participants to let go of the past, forgive all who have

done them wrong, and step into their power as the creator of theirexperience. 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?

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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 nolonger the victim of your circumstances.

To help you forgive someone today and release the toxic black widow

energy of The Drunk Monkey’s victim mindset, I’ve got another gift for

you.

It’s going to take you 20 minutes to sharpen your ax today but it will be

the best investment you make. Today I’ve included a 20-minute

visualization from the “Awakening Sales Velocity” teleseminar called

“Accepting Self, Others and Situations.” Go to www.15strategies.com to

listen now and download.

Get ready to release your resentment and your anger and go into a state

of bliss, peace and ultimately inspiration. Consider your resentment is

stopping you from being totally inspired and in action on your dreams

now.

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Get inspired now! Listen to the Accepting Self, Others and Situations

NOW! Then forgive someone important in your life.

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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! Iappreciate 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.

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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

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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 wehad 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!”

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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 upon 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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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