Million Dollar Habits

Your Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
The next law that I discovered is the Law of Expectations. This law says that, 
“Whatever you expect, with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling 
prophecy.”
In other words, you do not necessarily get what you want, but rather 
what you expect.
If you confidently expect something to happen, this expectation has a powerful 
effect on your attitude and your personality. The more confident your expectations, 
the more likely it is that you will do and say the things that are consistent with 

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what you expect to happen. As a result, you will dramatically increase the 
probabilities that you will achieve exactly what you are hoping for. 
One of the wonderful things about expectations is that you can manufacture your 
own. You can get up each morning and say; 
“I believe something wonderful is 
going to happen to me today.”
As you go through the day, you create a force field 
of expectations that surrounds you and effects the people with whom you come in 
contact. And in some remarkable way, a series of wonderful things, both large and 
small, will happen to you throughout the day. 
Successful people expect to be successful, 
in advance
. Happy people expect to be 
happy. Popular people expect to be liked by others. They develop the habit of 
expecting that something good will happen in every situation. They expect to 
benefit from every occurrence, even temporary setbacks and failures. They expect 
the best of other people, and always assume the best of intentions. And they are 
seldom disappointed. 
The flipside of positive expectations are the negative expectations that many 
people have. Unhappy people expect to fail more often than they succeed. They 
expect that other people will hurt or disappoint them. They expect their ventures to 
do poorly. Instead of expecting the best, they expect the worst, and because the law 
is neutral, they are seldom disappointed. 
One of the most important things you can do to assure a happy, healthy, prosperous 
life, is to expect the very best from every person or situation, no matter how it may 

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