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Have you found it difficult to quiet your mind in busy and stressful times? Maybe, you are so fixated on the outcome of something that you let your emotions take over. What if we told you that you could quiet your mind in order to make peace with your life decisions? WTR joins Matthew Ferry, a best-selling author, life coach, and spiritual teacher. Today, we discuss how it is important to recognize a worst-case scenario for everything in order to make peace with your life. Ingenious tactics to accumulate wealth, for people who see things differently. Matthew Ferrybest-selling author, life coach and spiritual teacherWebsite http://matthewferry.com (http://matthewferry.com/) Website #2 http://blog.matthewferry.com (http://blog.matthewferry.com/) Website #3 https://matthewferry.com/app (https://matthewferry.com/app) LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewferrypublicspeaker/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewferrypublicspeaker/) Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/matthewferry (https://www.facebook.com/matthewferry) Twitter URL https://twitter.com/matthew_ferry (https://twitter.com/matthew_ferry) YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/matthewferry (https://www.youtube.com/matthewferry) NOTES: [00:28] Kevin: Today, I'm joined by a definite outside the box thinker Matthew Ferry. Today's topic is mindset for preservation and generation. We will be talking about the impact of not taking care of your mindset and the impact of taking care of it [01:12] Would you mind sharing with our listeners a little bit about where you came from and what inspired you to do what you do today? [01:20] Matthew: The main thing that I do today is assist people to be at peace while creating the kind of life they want to create (quiet mind, epic life) [03:53] When you have a quiet mind, you adopt that skillset. You find yourself in the present moment and that means you're free from stress and worry which is a big deal [04:27] When you're stressed, you make bad decisions and you don't see things clearly and your energy is diminished [04:52] Kevin: So you have basically a series of techniques that you can help train people with that help with all of this. So let's talk about that and what our listeners can do [05:05] Matthew: We want to start with this idea of the rapid enlightenment process. Proven 4 step process to try to get the mind to quiet down and to stop being so stressed out in order to take action (be at peace in the process) [05:40] See that your mind is not your friend [05:58] You don't listen to your mind like it's a trusted advisor; you listen to your mind like a survival system (what it is... thriving vs. surviving) [07:08] Recognize that there are 10 hidden motives to survive. If you don't understand what these motives are, they actually run the show (greed, grudge, hatred, victim, illogical rules, humble, traitor, pride, resistance, and lazy) [07:43] To use enlightened perspectives that assume that all is well [07:50] Use something called re-contexualization (a skill of re-languaging that all is well) [08:35] What do we do to make the mind go quiet? [08:45] You have to embrace the worst case scenario (then make a plan from there) [12:50] Embrace and celebrate breakdown/failure [12:56] A quiet mind isn't possible when you are resisting the way that life is [13:38] 70% of the real big negatives in your life overtime optimize for something good [14:28] Breakdown is the beginning of breakthrough [15:43] Kevin: How about practicing being at peace amidst the chaos? [16:07] Matthew: Being at peace is the ultimate expression of quiet mind and it takes practice. To achieve it, you have to be able to catch the "drunk monkey" in reaction (for all the negative self-talk) [16:43] Your mind is absolutely convinced that it's psychic and that it can predict the future. So questioning...