Our daily lives change little according to our fantasies about how they should because we lend relatively little thought to shaping our future. We need to interrupt our current pattern of thinking giving a complete upheaval to some of our existing beliefs in some cases.
We need to expect different experiences for ourselves. We need to work harder at this then anything we have ever done in our lives. It is work. However, it is work of the unbound creative mind and that in of itself should excite and entice you.
Is it any wonder that exactly what you have been expecting each day shows itself in your life? The bad day, the more work than you can handle, the car problems, the higher than average bills, housework that’s never done. Occasionally, you will stop the pity party long enough to wish for an abundant future, but the pictures you paint are so poorly constructed and your expectations of their occurrence so doubtful they are never given the opportunity to reveal themselves.
Take a moment to consider everything you have expected to happen in the last week. How about the last year? What about the last decade? The answer is nothing but what you currently have in your life right now. That is what you have been expecting and that is what has shown up. Unless you decide right now to change your thoughts and therefore your expectations, then your tomorrow and the next day and a year from now will look exactly like today. You have been living in Groundhog’s Day.
The opportunity in expectations is two-fold. This is another profound secret to harnessing your supreme power. First, your current expectations reveal much of your current thought process. If you are unsure what your thoughts have been or what lies in your future, take a moment and jot down exactly what you expect for the coming week or coming month. Do it right now. If your dream vacation or job promotion is not on that list then you have not been diligent in preparing for it. The time is always now to do something about it. And what you expect is always what you have been thinking about. Your expectations are a window into your beliefs and thoughts. So ask yourself often, “What am I expecting.”
The second opportunity allows you to set your expectations. You can start with your ideal expectations and work backwards into developing specific thoughts. Take a moment and review your list of expectations for the coming week or month that you just jotted down. If you are like most people, it will look something like this: I expect to clean the house today, cook dinner, and do laundry. Tomorrow, I will start the work week, get a tune-up on the car, run errands, attend a conference, pick up the dry cleaning, and mow the lawn…
Much of what you expect is a repeat of what you have been expecting. You have become an expert attractor of what you currently have. The problem is you do not know how to expect different results because it has not occurred to you until now to expect differently.
Most people often are unsure what to expect because they have not clarified for themselves exactly what to expect within their ideals. The picture of the abundant future has never been worked out. How can you begin to act with expectation when you have no idea what you are expecting?
To attract your ideals, you must state specifically what your ideals are followed by your expectations of their appearance. Consider the thoughts you would have if the outcome were occurring right now. Then think those thoughts. Paint those pictures. Produce those feelings. Expect the result.
Expecting inconsequential events or objects, such as receiving a small check in the mail or attracting a specific feather, do materialize because detailed focus is given through thoughts. We are able to visualize results because expecting one or two incidental changes is both believable and doable.
Breakdown occurs when uprooting our current mode of life is desired. We want our pendulum to swing from lack to abundance. However, two problems exist that we need to overcome. First, most of us do not know what we want and so we fail to provide clarity. Second once we provide at least some degree of clarification, we do not achieve the proper thought patterns to get us from lack to abundance. Finally, we figure out what we what! What thoughts do we need to entertain to achieve it? That is our dilemma.
We do not achieve the proper thought patterns because we do not know what to think about. I want a brand new black Mercedes! What do I think about? We end up slipping quite easily back into our comfortable thought patterns of expecting what we always expect because we know how to work that model. We often do not stick with our newly forming thoughts. They are easy to abandon in favor of our well-trodden ones.
Step One: Know what you expect
We change our expectations by setting our expectations according to our ideals. Know what you want. Visualize your ideal life. Without overwhelming yourself, take an area that you want to improve right now. Write a paragraph or two on your ideal of this event. Write exactly what the vision of you is. You may not indicate what you do not want. You may not settle for or what you kind of like. You must write exactly what you see yourself doing, living, behaving, and enjoying.
Once you have clarified one or two expectations, put your list in a visible place and remind yourself often that this is what you expect. Say out loud, “I expect….” And then name each item on your list.
Once you know what you are expecting, your work is developing specific thoughts centered at driving the materialization of that event. When you develop your thoughts they should be in direct alignment with how your thinking would be if the event were actually occurring now.
Do not just pin your expectations on the refrigerator and forget about them. ACT upon them. Ask yourself: What would I do right now if my expectations were occurring? Then take some form of action. If a brand new Cadillac is on your list and you had the money in hand now to purchase it, wouldn’t you test drive the Cadillac? Is the space in your garage cleared for it? If not, go clear a spot. Acting with intent to receive is a powerful tool because your thoughts, emotions and expectations coincide. You cannot help but think about the Cadillac when you are sitting in it. You can help but visualize it when it is right in front of you. And you cannot help but feel joy behind the wheel. When thoughts, feelings, expectations and mental pictures come together at the same coordinate point results will soon follow.
Additionally, you have to keep acting with intention to receive. Remember we talked about these brief interludes of momentary enthusiasm are not enough to counteract what has been built up. A demolition ball hits a building many times before it finally collapses. Ultimately the building falls. You have to keep swinging away at your old thoughts and beliefs to get them to submit. Make your mental efforts daily. Consider how many times a day you give thought to your current condition. You give a lot of thought to your current situation. In fact, most of the day is devoted to your current forecast. Remember those 60,000 thoughts a day working to crank out more of what you already have? Do you really think a few brief thoughts are enough oomph power? The work in front of you must be diligent counteractive thought. That is the only way to change your current experience.
Before you answer with uncertainty as to what your thoughts should be, let me remind you that you are whole with the universe. All information is available to you that you seek. The answers as always are within you. How should you act? You should act as though you are receiving, as though you have arrived and as though you are living your ideal.
Occasionally, a role model is beneficial in aiding with thought development. If there is a specific person whose thoughts and behavior you can model, by all means take advantage of mirroring them. Listen to how they speak, adopt their body language, consider what thoughts enter their mind and what thoughts are absent from their habitual pattern.
Why do you think Martha Stewart is wealthy? What thoughts do you think she has? What thoughts do you think are barred entry from her mind? What about JK Rowlings, author of the very successful Harry Potter Books? What thoughts do you think must enter her mind? Bill Gates thoughts? Identifying with a person that is already where you see yourself arriving aids in thought selection. While you may not be able to get inside the mind of Bill Gates, you can certainly make note of his body language, gestures, confidence, voice tone, words he uses and words he does not use. All of these are signals to his thoughts. You do not have to be a mind reader to know Bill Gates does not think in terms of what cannot be done.
Try to figure out what drove your role model. Think in terms of what their ideals must have been. I assure you money was not the motivating factor. It is always something else. The key to becoming successful is not by imitating a role model. The key is in figuring out what your role model was trying to achieve, then reaching for the same ideals.
To attract your ideals, you must state specifically what your ideals are followed by your expectations of their appearance. Consider the thoughts you would have if the outcome were occurring right now. Then think those thoughts. Paint those pictures. Produce those feelings. Expect the result.
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