Empower Newsletter – May 2014
Welcome to the May 2014 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month discover how our expectations create our reality and how to create a different reality by changing your expectations.
Did you know?
‘our expectations create our reality!’
Do you expect things to turn out the way you would like them to or do you expect things to go wrong? And how can what we expect actually have anything to do with what the actual results are?
The short answer is that depending on what we expect, will determine what we look for and hence determine our results. For example, if you expect things not to work out, you will see all the things that go wrong. Whereas if you expect things to go well, you are more inclined to see the things that are going well.
Humans constantly distort, delete and generalise every moment of every day. One reason we do this is because we cannot possibly take in everything that is happening around us. Whilst you are reading this newsletter, before I pointed it out, were you aware of any background noise, your breath going in and out, any smells around you, or the feel of the material on your skin? If not, it is because you were not focusing directly on them at that time, you were focusing on something else.
Depending where our focus is and what we are giving our attention to in any given situation will determine what we look for, and what we look for then determines what we see. What we have seen is our reality!
What we focus on is what we get to the exclusion of everything else!
An example I often use to illustrate this principle is after buying a new car, you then suddenly start to see it everywhere (even the same colour). It’s not that they haven’t always been there, it’s that our focus has changed so we now see them.
What are you focusing on? If your expectations are creating a life you would rather move away from, a good place to start changing this is to consciously look for the things that will give you the result you would like.
Are you choosing to focus on all the good things that happen in your life or are you choosing to focus on the opposite?
Definition
Expectations
The act or the state of expecting.
Expectations are driven by beliefs, society, culture, and past experiences – expectations by others around us (known to us and strangers) and most importantly expectations of ourselves.
Something to Ponder
“Life is the result of your belief and expectations!”
Just because you’ve believed something is true, even if you’ve believed it for a long period of time, that doesn’t mean that it is actually true or that it has to be true for the future.
Quotes of the Month
“In order to win, you must expect to win.”
~ Richard Bach ~
“You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.”
~ Charles H. Spurgeon~
Affirmation Corner
‘I see all the good that is happening in every situation of my life.’
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May 1, 2014 1:36 pm
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