How your expectations are in the way of what you can achieve

What do you expect?

Your expectations set the bar for your life.

I invite you to write your expectations and reflect on them. They will reveal your thoughts and beliefs about people, situations, yourself, and life. This is a powerful exercise because it will help you discover where your thinking is on various subjects. You can tie your review to your results and perhaps entertain shifting it. Your expectations set the bar for your life. Once you examine your expectations, you can decide to change them and up the bar to the success, you seek.

When you expect negative results, the limitation is set. Setting more positive expectations can reap greater rewards. You see it in sports when baseball players expect to knock it out of the park, or the swimmer expects to break the record. Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right.”

Your subconscious mind is literal

Raymond Charles Barker, the author of The Power of Decision, shares that our subconscious mind is always in a state of expectancy. It accepts everything you tell it as truth; it doesn’t understand that your expectation may come from fear or an experience. What you tell yourself, it believes.

If you are not expecting a good life or results, it is time to switch your thinking to prosperity, and even if you don’t believe it at first, start telling yourself, “I am prosperous.” This simple exercise works to repattern your thoughts. Instead of expecting bad results, imagine and expect the best.

A Client’s Story

I recently had an experience with a client demonstrating how expectation and envisioning the best result can deliver what you want. My client was worried about taking the written driving test; she had trouble passing it prior because her nerves would take over, making it impossible for her to think clearly.

She came up with a vision of expecting to hear great news from the DMV and be given her license. I also prescribed positive affirmations to keep her nervous system calm while studying and testing.

She and I were astonished by her remarkable result. When she arrived at the DMV, the clerk told her there was no need to take the test. They advised her to expect her license in the mail. Granted, this can be seen as a coincidence, a fluke, or however you want to frame it if you do not believe in the Spiritual Laws. I know that the thinking and energy she brought to the appointment aligned with her vision and expectation sources.

I’ve witnessed situations like this with other clients, and like the late Bob Proctor used to say, “I am never surprised, but always amazed” at how Spirit delivers what we place our attention on with the expectation to receive it.

Expectation led to results

You see, our mind is connected to the higher mind of Source/ God. When we think something will be hard, it is so; likewise, expecting it to be easy produces the energy of ease. While on my breast cancer journey, I experimented with this and attested that my expectations about the treatments helped me have a different experience than others.

Experiment, try it for yourself. If you are sick, expect to be well; if you are unhappy, expect to be happy. Perhaps when you last felt a sniffle, you expected to get a cold. Or when you’ve heard or said, “this was just what I expected would happen,” was what you expected, good or bad?

Because we have been expecting bad things to happen, it is time we reverse our thinking to think of all the beautiful things we expect from life.

Decide to expect the good

You are the master of your thoughts, and you have the power to shift your thinking, except only the good. If, along the way, the bad occurs, we use it as information on how to do it better, what we learned, and continue to expect the positive.