| Exercise Your Expectations
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You're always expecting something, whether you're aware of it or not. Like many of us, you may have avoided positive expectations for your future, out of fear of disappointment. This is reflected in old sayings like, "Don't get your hopes up" and "Expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed." However, fear is just not a good guide for using your brilliant, creative mind.
The expectation mechanism of your brain is a tool, and you will do well to use it to your best advantage. Optimistic expectations literally give you peace of mind, calm your heart, and give you energy and enthusiasm for moving forward into a positive future.
This is a way for you to make sure your mind is working for you, not against you. Take these steps to get started:
- Write down your expectations for your health & aging process, and for your relationships.
- Replace the negative expectations (fears) with positive outcomes you may have ruled out in the past.
- Now blow the ceiling off those expectations, and dare to imagine a future beyond your wildest dreams...this is actually not risky, although it might feel that way.
- Imagine how surprised you'll be when those good things come, and don't put any thoughts into how or when. Just keep expecting the good.
- Then be grateful in advance...feel the gratitude now, as if the good you expected has already occurred.
These are powerful tools, which will work for you only if you use them consistently. And, over time you'll find that things will start to shift for you, and more and more of your hopes and dreams will start coming true.
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| Quotes From Great Goodfinders
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"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"High expectations are the key to everything."
--Sam Walton
"Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations."
--Craig Sager
"Life... it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."
--Richard M. DeVos
"We tend to live up to our expectations."
--Earl Nightingale
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
--Bill Gates
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