Alter Your Expectations for Success
Last week’s Prosperity Quick Tips about disappointment evidently really hit home for a lot of people. I received an unusual amount of email about it. So today, let’s take another step forward.
If you have an emotional pattern that shows up in your life stories such as disappointment, betrayal, abandonment, or any other uncomfortable emotion, then on a deep-down level you harbor an expectation of that experience. Because of the way the Law of Attraction operations, that expectation will lead to a result.
The same thing happens if you have a pattern of having life stories end in satisfaction, success, or getting your needs met. You will have an expectation of a favorable result and that’s what you will manifest.
The "cure" is obvious–alter your expectations. But that’s easier said than done.
Long term emotional habits become part of your identity. If disappointment is your habit and expectation, you would actually feel some discomfort if suddenly a series of events ended with a favorable outcome because you don’t perceive yourself as a successful person who gets what he or she wants.
What has to change is your self-concept. You have to be willing to be a successful, fulfilled person and your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors need to be congruent with that self-concept. That’s the tough part.
Because so much positive change would be a threat to your identity, you’ll do everything you can on a subconscious level to protect who you’ve been and resist the change. You are apt to engage in what is commonly called self-sabotage. I call it self-protection.
I’m going to address this issue in the next few tips. Actually, this is what my book Build Your Money Muscles is all about. If you have the book, go back to it and pay close attention to the discussion of the Identity Factor that appears throughout the book.
If you’d like to learn more about what is in the book, go to
http://ProsperityPlace.com/bymm
The audio Creating a New Financial Identity is also helpful.
I discuss the Identity Factor in episode #3 of The Prosperity Show
