No Cost, Live Ustream Broadcast Tonight!

Tonight I’m broadcasting LIVE on UStream talking to you about how to make this year the best of your life. I’m so excited to share my secrets and strategies with you!!

My event is called “4 Reasons 2011 Will Suck and How To Make Sure It Won’t“. After coaching more than 8000 people to live better lives, I have identified 4 reasons that will stop you from having a great, successful year… unless you do something about them! If you don’t know what they are, you leave your future to chance. Why leave it to chance when you can join me for my free, Ustream event?! It’s going to be fun, informative and will help you have the best year ever!

To learn more and to register, click here: http://www.matthewferry.com/bestyearever2011/ You will get the link that takes you directly to the Ustream event page.

The event is tonight (Wednesday Jan 26th) and will start at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST. Don’t miss it! :)

Todd Smith Interview

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Todd Smith. Todd has been an entrepreneur for over 30 years and has done over one billion dollars in sales. He has achieved the top 1/100 of 1% of the people in his chosen career paths. He was also one of the youngest people inducted into the Re/max Hall of Fame. And Todd is sharing his ideas and thoughts on success with you!! You can find Todd Smith on his web site, http://www.littlethingsmatter.com/

Click on the audio player below to listen to this awesome, inspiring interview!
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Why Success Will NOT Bring Happiness

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What you had envisioned success to be, isn’t at all what success actually is.  Success is like standing in a hammock on one leg juggling twelve balls.  Now that you’ve accomplished this incredible feet, it takes a lot to keep it going.

People who are already successful once believed that success would bring happiness.  Happiness in the form of acknowledgement, appreciation, victory, money, power, self esteem etc.  Now that you are successful and have received the accolades, you realize, it doesn’t make you happy.

In fact, success often brings even more negativity into your life.  More people want something from you and demand your time.  You have more responsibilities and accountabilities.  To be successful often means you have created something that needs to be protected.  Even worst, you may be among the many successful people who face the disastrous notion that what you have created isn’t even something you want.

To create happiness in your life takes a different set of success tools.  The target is different.  It’s not longer material success or accomplishment.  The new target is emotional success.  This is the next domain of success.  Once you realize that success does not make you happy, you suddenly find yourself on journey.

Nothing outside of you will bring happiness.  Nothing out in the world will ever make you happy.  Happiness is both an art and a skill.  Your mind, which I lovingly call, The Drunk Monkey is not designed for happiness.  In fact, I’ll leave you with this thought, “Anything other then happiness and peace is just a state of mind.”

How To Stay Focused on Success

I received a question in from one of my clients that said, “How do I stay focused on success, Matthew, when I’m just sick and tired of waiting for it?” And the answer is actually very simple. First of all, you must begin to acknowledge everything that has already occurred. You’ve already come so far, and you don’t acknowledge it.

There’s so much to your success that you’re already used to so you don’t notice it. Therefore, you’re not grateful. And there’s a reason for that. We’re not grateful because the mind’s job is to find things about us and about the world and about life that are potentially dangerous.

And so your mind is constantly saying, “Okay. I’m glad you’re successful. But what about that? What about this? That’s wrong. And this is wrong.” If you really pay attention to the drunk monkey in your head, it is totally focused in on how you are wrong.

So in order to get back to that renewed, rejuvenated place, you must get grateful. Now, what I recommend is that you do the 10 – 10 visualization process. Every night before you go to bed, I want you to just close your eyes and envision 10 things that you love about your life, and then 10 goals and dreams that are exciting to you.

Success is a progressive realization of a worthwhile goal. So success is not an outcome. You don’t get there. The moment you’re there, you already want something else.

So what you want to do is get grateful, get happy now. Every night before you go to bed, envision all the things you’re grateful for. Feel that gratitude. And then I want you to think about the things you want to create, your goals and dreams. And when you do that, it will blow you away how much happier and fulfilled you’ll be with today, which gives you energy to make tomorrow better.

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