Matty Hill
You’re not lazy, you’re running old patterns I help men who overthink & never feel ready to back themselves Moving to 🇱🇰 in June 26 Find your pattern👇
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Expert Overview
Matty Hill is a mindset coach and NLP practitioner who specializes in helping people bridge the gap between knowing what they should do and actually doing it. Drawing from his own experiences with poor mental health, body image issues, and self-criticism, he teaches practical tools to interrupt unconscious patterns that sabotage progress. His approach combines neurolinguistic programming technique…
Core Philosophy
Matty operates from a foundational understanding that approximately 95% of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors are driven by unconscious patterns rather than conscious choice. He believes that the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it isn't about motivation, discipline, or weakness—it's about unconscious programming that quietly blocks progress. This core insight shapes his entir…
Key Principles
1. Approximately 95% of your thoughts, actions, and behaviors are driven by the unconscious mind, not conscious choice. Most of your reactions are unconscious patterns stored from way before you can remember. 2. The gap between knowing and doing isn't about motivation or discipline. Something unconscious—a story, belief, or thought pattern built up over time—is quietly blocking your way. 3. Your…
Key Ideas & Frameworks
**The Delete Button** • A pattern interrupt technique using a visualized bright red button labeled "DELETE" • When negative thoughts arise, physically press the imaginary button three times while saying "delete, delete, delete" • Breaks the chain of thoughts that lead to self-sabotaging behaviors and negative spirals • Requires consistent practice to notice unconscious negative thoughts faster and…
Actionable Advice
- Practice the arm-folding exercise by folding arms opposite to your natural way to become aware of unconscious patterns - Set up a visualization of a big bright red button with "DELETE" written in capital letters that you can mentally see in front of you - When you catch a negative thought, physically press the imaginary delete button three times while saying "delete, delete, delete" out loud - T…
Checklists & Cheat Sheets
🧠 Brain Pattern Interruption Checklist • Notice when you're operating on "autopilot" in daily activities • Catch negative thoughts as they arise (before they spiral) • Visualize a big bright red DELETE button clearly in front of you • Press the button 3 times saying "Delete, delete, delete" out loud • Practice the arm-folding exercise to understand unconscious vs conscious patterns • Identify whi…
Key Takeaways
1. Approximately 95% of your thoughts, actions, and behaviors are driven by unconscious patterns, not conscious choice, which explains why you know what to do but don't do it. 2. Your brain filters reality through deletion, distortion, and generalization — you're not seeing actual reality, but your brain's filtered version based on your beliefs and past experiences. 3. The gap between knowing an…
Training videos
- Why Your Brain Is Working Against You (And How To Stop It)
- Your brain is lying to you...
- Stop negative thoughts with this ONE tool...
Recent posts
Having a dedicated notes page in my phone for me to jot down any thoughts, notes, quotes or ideas is such an underrated hack. I love listening to podcasts or audiobooks while out on a walk and havin
107 views · 3 likes · 9 Jul 2026
For almost two years I said no to moving to Sri Lanka. Not because I didn’t want to. But because I kept saying I wasn’t ready. I thought I needed my business to be at a certain place, my finances
754 views · 17 likes · 8 Jul 2026
There are a few new faces here and some of you might have found me because I was wearing a lotus leaf hat. I’m Matty and I’m here because for years I lived miserably when I didn’t need to. I struggl
13 likes · 7 Jul 2026
Have you ever noticed you can mind read? Somebody doesn’t reply to your text quick enough and you assume they’re annoyed at you. Or they say “we need to talk,” and you’ve already decided you’re gett
747 views · 9 likes · 6 Jul 2026
Here’s a belated June dump from our first month in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
4 likes · 5 Jul 2026