Tell Me Something Good

I encourage you to ask yourself: are you living a life full of fun, love, and joy? If the answer to that question is anything like, “Well, I would be, if only ______________,” then I want you to dispel the myth that you need to wait for something or someone to change before reveling in the pure joy of living. 

Your life can be exactly the way you want it, if you will focus on what you do want instead of what you don’t want. Multiple people have said it in a myriad of ways over time, and here are just a few examples of that truth being spoken:

(Hear this 1974 Motown Favorite, here.)

Consistent thoughts of, “…lust, greed and poverty will bring you to ruin.” – Bob Grant, Counselor
The Law of Attraction: positive or negative actions produce corresponding results. 
Self-fulfilling Prophecy: a prediction that causes itself to become true, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
 “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” – Galatians 6:7  
“Ask, and it shall be given to you.” – Luke 11:9

If a few quotes and definitions aren’t enough to garner your buy-in, consider scientific proof. Robert Rosenthal, for example, explored the effects of a teacher’s expectations of students or the effects expectation has on random studies when research biases occur. (Read the Info).

There are all kinds of social, scientific and personal reasons, that expectation brings results. Whatever host of complex reasons, however, it’s clear that disciplining the mind to expect wonderful things to happen and the mouth to verbalize faith in that expectation, brings positive results time and
again. But when you don’t feel that positive expectation, how do you make expectation work for you? The simple work of expectation is this: Think it, speak it, own it, and it shall be.

For whatever troubles you this week, start expecting something better by thinking and speaking to yourself and others. For example:

 “I have a beautiful, healthy body.”
 “I am very successful in my career.”
 “My husband is warm and affectionate.”
 
Add to that statement any slightest, tiniest indication of it, in order to strengthen your ownership of it. 
 
“I have a beautiful, healthy body, and I know that because my eyes are clear and bright, today.” 
“I am very successful in my career, and I know that because I received a call from a new client, today.”
 “My husband is warm and affectionate, and I know that because he went to work to provide for us, today.”
 
Ignore the skeptic that would have you thinking, speaking and owning what you don’t want, and start creating the life you do want. Tell me something good, people. Then expect it!

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