Battleground for the Self: Everything Counts

Successful Living Among the Walking Wounded

Even as you read this right now, there’s a battle being waged for your attention freedom.

The physical world is a place of duality:

Hot Cold
Male Female
On Off
Yes No
Up Down
Win Lose

How many times have you swung the pendulum between happy and sad?

Join me on a brief trip of self-discovery.

I recently came to love a woman who lives clear across the world.

For two months I felt the joy of sharing/loving/growing.

Then I took the journey across waters to a distant land and my cup filled with experiences.

…intimacy, togetherness and adventure.

Four days later, the honeymoon was over.

She appeared before me with an old/new boyfriend who shook my hand and announced his engagement to her.

Happy swings to sad…and back across the world I went.

The war that wages for your attention freedom is filled with intent.

Our worlds each rotate upon the axis of purposeful randomness.

During the long trip back to my temporary home, I had time for reflection…plenty of time.

Perhaps it would take being in a plane 35,000 feet above the ocean, jetisoning nearly 600 miles per hour, for me to sit still and deeply reflect?

Reading this, you may have children needing baths or dinner, the 6 o’clock news permeating the room, or the tick-tock of a clock pressing you toward your 9-5 job.

For me, I had nothing but a seat, a window and duration.

What a gift sometimes it is to be trapped in a world that wants to speak to you about the secrets of your life.

By the time my 3rd plane had landed me back in Atlanta, Africa had begun to feel like a surreal dream.

But then, aren’t all of our moments that way?

When a battle wages, there are only two possible outcomes in the end: 1) “Surrendering to the enemy” or 2) “Conquering your destiny.”

The greatest changes in my life never did come squarely of my own efforts. But to be fair, the changes wouldn’t have come in the absence of those same efforts either. GUARD YOUR TONGUE - SNAKES MAY FLY OUT! I was in a supermarket while in South Africa, looking for crackers, when life brought me food for thought. A woman with proper posture was beside a tall thin boy: her son. I watched as he broke out into small dance moves, sliding his feet, making his body move to simulate the flowing nature that underlies all things.

“Cut that OUT!” growled the mother. She added a few more choice words I couldn’t make out. Probably something about how he couldn’t “BE” that way here in this place and this time.

I was horrified.

Why? Because she is restricting his attention freedom. She is subverting his desire to become all that he has always been.

There is a place where discipline and ‘freedom of becoming’ meet. I don’t think this mother and son have found it.

Later on, we grow up and, watching others dance, wishing we could too. If only we remembered that we COULD dance - that ordinary trips to the supermarket are “Battlegrounds for the Self” that can turn us into the “walking wounded.”

How many women have stories like, “I love him, but he becomes two different people. Sometimes he’s so wonderful and other times he’s unbearable.”

How many years of your life have you hoped for only the Light to come forward from your partner? That they love and respect you rather than do and say some of the things they choose?

We live among the “walking wounded” and a whole lot of healing needs to happen before we regain our attention freedom.

Oh but this article isn’t about, “poor you or me.”

The War of ‘Dual-ity’ wages within you and around you whether you claim the role of tyrant, victim or some other.

My message to you is one of hope, faith and determination. EVERYTHING counts…

The next time you pick up a cigarette and poison your body, know that someone has made you a slave.

The next time you call another person an *ss, even in your heart or mind, know that you are claiming your place among the walking wounded.

The next time your temper flares or your heart despairs, or you choose chocolate cake over apples and pears (God help us all ha, ha)…

..know that a war is being waged for your attention freedom and that particular battle has gone to the enemy.

Let your children dance in the aisles and teach them how to respectfully live in their POWER.

I’m no saint, I’m right here in the middle of it with you.

My mind has craved chocolate all day today. But I want attention freedom and to live a finer life.

NO ONE IS GOING TO BRING IT TO YOU…You MUST GO AND GET IT!

So as soon as I sign off here, I’m going to instead make a tunafish sandwich.

LIFE BEYOND DUALITY Flying to Africa, my heart was filled with love and possibility. The ride back home, though, was long and empty. Why me? What did I do wrong? What was the purpose? These questions cycled in my mind as I sat on a plane in a life of “doing time”.

Fortunately, beyond the exchanges of victim and tyrant exists a reality that far exceeds even the best of moments in a world of duality. Life’s riches multiply when we slip into higher perspectives. Because of my sincere willingness to change and grow, the very next morning I experienced ‘the grace of life.’

At 5am, sitting at the computer to do some work, I suddenly slipped into a higher state of being.

I could not have orchestrated such a change with my mind alone: it was a subtle and profound shift that had happened inside me.

In that moment, I let go of the wounds that were binding me. You see, as real as they were…they were not there. They never had been.

Finding myself in this “healthy place”, I decided, “let’s keep going!” And so I then released my past partners and wished them well.

I even went and got on the phone with my ex-fiance who I’d boycotted for many months! The healing power that lies beyond this world of duality had made itself known.

So…I let them all go. Truth is, I never found or lost them anyway. A war is waging for your attention freedom.

Acknowledge it.

Advance against the enemy…

Then let it all disappear so only the real remains.

The Success Principle That Creates Champions…

Dear Future Success Champion,

I have a quick message for you that is going to help you go from hoping you were more successful to BEING more successful.

So here it is:

I’ve no doubt that, along the way, you’ve ‘dropped the ball’ so to speak. Probably many times.

I know I have. In fact it happened today. I had an important meeting to be at and, because of a difficult night (won’t waste your time with the drama details), I missed the beginning part of the meeting.

Was I NOT happy about that!!!

Here’s the thing though: we are ALL going to ‘drop the ball’ numerous times along the way to reaching our goals in life…

…along the way to realizing the potential of who we really are.

It’s going to happen! The sooner you recognize and accept that, the sooner you will start seeing greater results in all that you do.

PICK UP RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT OFF

But recognition isn’t what creates the greater results. It’s committing to picking UP the ball that you dropped and continue running with it.

Dropped it again? Pick it up again and ‘keep on keeping on!’

Some people are afraid to even CARRY the ball toward a better lifestyle for fear of looking bad or how others will think of them.

Successful people don’t dwell in that place. So if you go there and hang out, I’m sure you’ll be hanging out with the wrong people.

So that’s the message I have for you: don’t worry about dropping the ball on your way to success. Just make sure you pick it back up and I’m certain you will find the results you’re looking for.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew

P.S. - I had a great time this weekend at my friend’s Wealth Building Seminar.

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Are Your Success Wheels in Motion?

Successful people guard their time like it’s the gold in Fort Knox.

Write that down on a sheet of paper. It’s important to your success.

If you’re not guarding your time and you want to be more successful, then you have work to do.

Ask anyone if they are committed to their own success and most will tell you, “Absolutely!”

However, a closer look at their choices and actions says otherwise.

That’s because commitment to your own success is going to require “doing what it takes” and require “personal change”.

Yes, I said the “c” word…”Change.”

Everyone wants to change the outcome but how can you change the outcome unless you first change the viewpoints, thought processes and decisions you adopt?

That’s just how things work here.

Certain fundamentals never change (treat others as you’d like to be treated, you don’t get something for nothing, your freedom ends where another’s begins).

UPGRADING HOW YOU RELATE

But ‘How you relate with yourself and with the world”? That needs constant upgrading.

As you probably know, I did something most people would not do: I moved from New York, where I’ve lived almost my entire life, to Atlanta to get close to my friends who are multi-millionaires.

Not to hang out and drink beer - I did it because I want to take my 6-figure income and grow it to 7-figures.

Great. Here’s the thing though. I wasn’t experiencing the growth lately that I’d hoped for.

WAS MY MENTOR BROKEN?

Maybe my mentor was “broken”?

Well, we got on the phone together and hashed out what was happening.

One of the revelations I had was that I was being timid and “uninviting” myself.

Probably something to do with a fear of going from 6-figures to 7-figures.

Great! So now I saw my ‘blind spot’
(recognition).

Next comes ACTION.

I rededicated myself to my own success and re-invited myself to the party.

In fact, I ended up hanging out with my mentor all day yesterday. At one point, we were in a store and I saw he was buying a pair of sneakers.

I said, “you know what? I’m getting these SAME sneakers too!”

It may seem silly but it’s actually profound. Here’s why:

You want to be successful like someone you know?

REINVENT YOURSELF

Then CHANGE how you view the world and BECOME more like them!

See what it’s like to walk in THEIR shoes for an hour…a day…a month.

By the way, it’s ok to be a mentor and also have a mentor.

Mentors often have mentors and even mentor each other. They understand “the Success Principles of Life” and they put that understanding into M-O-T-I-O-N.

I pay my mentor A LOT more to help me get to my business to 7-figures than you would pay me to help you to reach 6-figures : )

LES BROWN, MARSHALL SYLVER

And because I am inviting myself to the party, later this week I’m going to be introduced to Les Brown, one of the all-time great motivational speakers, and possibly Marshall Sylver and Frank McKinney (a friend of Donald Trump’s).

Do you want to be invited to the party too? How committed are you to growing yourself and changing so that you can have everything you want?

Most people really want success but have trouble when it comes to committing to the process.

CAN YOU COMMIT TO THE PROCESS?

I’m looking for the people who are ready to be mentored to having a 6-figure income they can run from the comfort of their own home.

And I’m only looking for a few people because I can’t mentor more than 4 personally. Otherwise it takes up too much of my time.

If you are ready to invest in your own success so your family doesn’t have to be held captive by the state of the economy or by when your boss feels like giving you a raise, then “invite yourself to the party” too.

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How much easier would it be to have someone showing you exactly what to do to be successful creating wealth for yourself and your family?

I can go to my office, I can work from home…I can even work in another country like I’m about to do later this month.

I want this same lifestyle freedom for you.

But you have to show me YOU want it. Otherwise we end up just wasting both of our time.

If you think you could be one of the few people I mentor to success as we blast our way into 2009, then go right now to www.keithmatthew.com and fill out the questionnaire there. Don’t skip any questions.

If you’re going to skip questions when there are only 8 of them, what are you going to do when I tell you exactly how to be successful? Skip important steps?

The more info I get from you, the more I can see if you qualify for me to work with you personally.

Think about it…

Would you rather try and “figure it out” for the next few years and spend a lot of money in the process…or would you rather have someone who’s been there show you exactly what to do and guide you to your success?

THE HUNGER TO SUCCEED

If you’re hungry for success and ready to invest in yourself, then go fill out the questionnaire at www.keithmatthew.com and then give me a call at 678-368-4731. Why wait to hear back from me?

Seek me out and “invite yourself to the party”.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew
Self Mastery Secrets (dot com)

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Economic Bailouts: Are You Walking the High Wire Without a Safety Net?

This is one of the headlines I was looking at while writing this to you early yesterday morning:
 
“White House considers taking ownership stakes in private banks to deal with credit crisis”
 
They are seeking to “deal with a serious credit crisis that has caused the biggest upheavals on Wall Street in seven decades and continues to roil global markets.”
 
My question for you is this: how did this credit crisis “sneak up on us” like it did?
 
Or didn’t it?
 
Was the world turning a blind eye? Have we been looking the other way while the problems worsened?
 
And now world governments are looking to bail out and to some extent even “buy out” the institutions that are such a mess.
 
We’ve all gotten into a jam at one point or another. Whether it be with credit cards or making poor business decisions. It’s part of the growing process.
 
What disturbs me is that across the board bailouts do not send the right message to the world. The lesson should be: manage your affairs more wisely or watch your company disintegrate. If we take away the lesson, then we are guilty continued reading by clicking here of perpetuating the problem.
 
Now, I don’t think we should just let tons of jobs go down the tubes without trying to preserve them. But let me ask you this:
 
When was the last time you didn’t pay your electric bill and the utility company said to you, “no worries, we’ll pay it for you.”
 
Try…NEVER!
 
Like a loving parent who pain-heartedly watches as their child learns new lessons and discovers how to take care of himself, so should we less quick to rush in and take their troubles away.
 
I still want to know where the world governments were while the problems were mounting. Hmmm…busy attacking each other and exploiting world resources perhaps?
 
So that’s most of my rant for today. But the question still remains:
 
Where does that leave us now?
 
Well, I can’t recall so many instances of people around me losing their jobs, having their retirement money depleted and just downright worried about their financial well-being.
 
EBay cut 10% of its workforce the other day. General Motors is shutting down divisions. Just pick up a paper one of these days and chances are some company is laying off people.
 
But you’re safe right? I mean you have a secure position and you’re untouchable correct?
 
Think again.
 
What happens when the pink slip comes or you get a memo informing you that you’ve actually been working on ‘The Titanic’ all this time?
 
(I’m still waiting to see how they carve up my bank - Wachovia.)
 
For the record, I don’t believe using credit is a bad thing. It’s just the abuse of it which has caused this mess.
 
In fact, I teach my clients to leverage credit in a way that they can create assets by doing so.
 
I teach people how to have successful businesses from home.
 
You can’t get fired from home.
 
In fact, when you become your own boss, you can give yourself pay raises whenever you want!
 
Now is the time to be preparing yourself to be self-sufficient. Actually, you should have
been doing it for a while already but there’s still time to get it done if you start
putting your attention on it today.

Accelerating Your Success,

Keith Matthew
Self Mastery Secrets

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What Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie Taught Me About Opportunity

“He can’t make it Thursday to do a talk on ‘Think and Grow Rich’. We think it’s a good fit for you. Would you want to do it?”

Caught by surprise, I started to think it over while I gathered some info.

To give some perspective, Andrew Carnegie had offered Napoleon Hill the opportunity to interview America’s wealthiest people for the purpose of creating a success system, he secretly held a stopwatch in his pocket and gave young Napoleon no more than 60 seconds to decide.

Napoleon Hill came back with a resounding “yes” 32 seconds later and the rest is history.

Having had listened to Napoleon Hill’s recorded talks countless times, I knew the importance of being decisive.

I checked my calendar, checked my gut (always do) and came back with a resounding “yes”. Maybe not in 32 seconds but pretty quickly considering I didn’t even have a talk on Think and Grow Rich that I could give!

Those who know me know that I invest part of my time teaching clients and students to recognize opportunity where they normally may not have.

But this article isn’t about that. It’s about about what you DO when opportunity knocks.

Do you answer?

Or do you turn off the lights and pretend no one’s home?

I’d thought about saying “no thanks” to the talk because I knew saying yes would mean having to craft a brand new presentation, coordinating my roundtrip travel to New York, getting a place to stay and putting together a sales presenation for the end of the talk.

Not to mention the reality that for two days I’d be away from my business and not building it the way I’d planned.

But Keith, so then why the heck did you say ‘yes?’

Because “no” doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for new possibilities.

“No” pretty much puts an end to the conversation and you never get to find out where it would have led to.

I don’t mind using myself here as a live case study for you. In fact, it’s my pleasure if it ends up helping you in some way.

Success stories don’t happen all at once….they unfold over a series of events and choices. You don’t have to know all the details of how you’re going to get where you want to get to.

You just need to know how to say yes when opportunity knocks.

I knew there was a chance I’d stumble a bit during the talk because it was my first time doing it. My biggest concern was that I’d run out of content and not fill the full 2 1/2 hours because I hadn’t a chance to time myself before the event.

The great thing about answering the door when opportunity knocks is that you put yourself ‘in motion’ and end up growing while your “fanny” is in the fire. There isn’t much time to worry or be fearful when necessity keeps you in the moment.

I ended up taking on two new clients as a result of the talk (which at least covered my expenses from the trip) and now I have two more people I can help create better outcomes for themselves.

Answering the door when opportunity knocked has now pushed me into building out the infrastructure of my business (mastermind groups, a new mentoring program etc).

Undoubtedly this is going to lead to more knocks on the door and more wealth-building opportunities for both myself and my newsletter subscribers.

In fact, the day after I’d answered the door and said yes to speaking on the topic ‘Think and Grow Rich’, I was contacted and asked to coauthor a book on a similar topic.

An hour BEFORE the talk, I swung by my friend’s office in Manhattan and asked him about his recent trip to China. What came out of my 50-minute visit with him? Now we’ll be having regular mastermind sessions together along with other high-powered people (This friend recently pre-sold his next seminar and pulled in $200,000 - just to give you an idea of the company I keep).

Answer the door when opportunity knocks and great things will happen.

Normally I recommend you DO NOT talk too much about your successes when a cycle isn’t yet completed (ie, the experience isn’t finished yet) because it can compromise the outcome. That’s because you invite the energies of other people into your sphere and they can negatively impact your success vibration.

I’m ok with sharing this one with you though. Even if everything I’ve mentioned changes before you read this, I know practicing putting this success principle of “answering the door when opportunity knocks” into action in your life will always produce great things. So if everything changes, I’m certain it will change into something just as miraculous (maybe even better!).

Since this article is a live case study, it really has no ending…just a pause.

Practice answering the door and saying yes to opportunity - keep the conversation going and see where it leads you.

Then write me at keith@selfmasterysecrets.com and let me know how it turns out!

Keith Matthew