Expect the best and the best will come.
I was always amazed by people who just seem to float through life receiving all the blessing and seeming to always fall into lucky situations. I had friends that were already well off win the lottery, or hit it big in Vegas or land incredible jobs. Their cups seemed to always overflow and I marveled at their accomplishments. It had nothing to do with education. It was not a matter of being "connected" and knowing the right person. There was one defining pattern in all these people...it was their attitude.
Never did I hear them complain or worry (out loud for that matter). They always expected the best to happen and it did. Even when bad times fell on them, I found them always in good spirits and like clockwork, everything that they seemed to loose was restored back and then some.
Then it began to dawn on me that we as a society always focus on the results thinking they come in absence of something else. That sounds like such an absurd statement, but how many of you believe today that you will be happy after you make a lot of money. Or you will believe you can accomplish something after you do it. Or my personal favorite, "I'll believe it when I see it." The truth is there is no such thing as luck, everybody makes their own luck, good or bad. Things only happen when you believe they can happen.
How many times, have I heard people say "I can't do it" or "It will never happen to me." Well they are absolutely right. If they expect they can't, then they won't. I am not saying, believing will bring you an instant victory. Much like when we all learned to ride bikes as children, we fell over and maybe skinned our knees. The difference in believing "you can" will make you try again instead of walking away and accepting defeat. Mistakes and setbacks are just a part of the learning process...learn from them and they will never happen again.
I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as coincidences. We live in a world of constant cause and effect and it is no coincidence that people who think positive have positive things happen to them. Just as well, people who think negative thoughts have negative things happen to them. Problem is many people just do not know that they are doing it to themselves. If they took the time to monitor their thoughts, they would be amazed to see there was no coincidence in the outcomes at all. True happiness is within everyone's grasp.
Skeptical? So was I, till it started to work...Honestly, what do you have to lose?
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