Author: Matthew Ferry

Matthew Ferry is a spiritual teacher, master coach, and best-selling author. Since 1993, he has helped thousands of high-performing professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives transcend fear, quiet their minds, and create what he calls Enlightened Prosperity™—success without stress. His signature methodology, The Rapid Enlightenment Process, has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal for Advanced Social Sciences. He is the author of Quiet Mind Epic Life, creator of the Mental Journey To Millions, a 2x TEDx speaker and best-selling author.

Originally posted August 25th, 2011 Happiness is not only good for your health, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences but apparently, it’s good for business too.  In his Harvard Business Review article, Shawn Achor sites that happy doctors diagnose 19% faster and happy salespeople increase sales by 37%. He goes on to say, “Happiness is the single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy.”Over the last 17 years, I’ve seen dramatic business turn-arounds occur in as little as a week.  The only change being an increase in a person’s happiness.  The results…

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I started writing songs again. (If fact, in the past 3 months I’ve manifested a singer/songwriter partner and two producers. We have 3 songs in production right now. Plus, we’ve been offered a full recording studio to use in the coming weeks and months.) Ideas for lyrics come all the time… while working, while driving, while having dinner. Here’s this mornings ideas… If you see the dark then you chose the dark. If you see the gloom, then you chose the gloom If your world is painted black then you are holding the brush Not sure if these lyrics will make…

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How I first learned about the power of my mind My mentor’s mentor, Earl Nightingale, taught that you become what you think about. It started for me when I was 5. You see, my dad Mike Ferry worked for Mr. Nightingale selling records of the most famous motivational talk ever burned onto vinyl. And one day while at our home in Newport Beach he sat me on his lap, and he asked me what I wanted the most. “A bike,” I answered. He then told me to find a picture and post it on the refrigerator. I did. Soon, I…

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As a life coach, it is my job to help people move from negative states to positive states. Now, life is not necessarily negative at all; it’s just our opinion that makes life negative. To change your life for the positive now, one of the first things that you must take into account, is that you have created opinions about how life shouldn’t be this way, and that opinion then creates a negative state for you. You feel frustrated, you feel annoyed, you feel agitated, upset, angry. These are all negative states that occur when your opinion is contradicted. To…

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