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PLAN EVERY YEAR WITH POSITIVE EXPECTANCY - by
Anuj A Shah
Whatever you
vividly imagine,
ardently desire,
sincerely believe
and enthusiastically act upon
must inevitably come to pass .....
This year can be the year of your dreams,
the year of great accomplishment,
the year you realize and utilize your untapped potential,
the year you receive merited recognition;
the year you achieve long-sought goals in your spiritual,
intellectual, social, physical, financial and family
life.
This year will be exciting
and rewarding only
if you make it so. How can you determine to make it such a
year ? The year will hold accomplishment, realization and
achievement only if you expect it to happen: only if you
enter and live each day with POSITIVE EXPECTANCY.
POSITIVE EXPECTANCY is the
attitude you must adopt and maintain. The greatness of your
accomplishments depends upon your understanding and
application of the principles of positive expectancy; you
must expect things to happen and your expectations must
be positive.
To illustrate the power of
positive - and negative - expectancy. Norman Vincent
Peale tells the story of a group of people who, at the
end of one year, committed to writing their expectations
for the coming year. Each person sealed his expectations
in an envelope to be opened and read aloud at the end of
the following year.
At the end of the year the
notes were opened; the expectations of each had been
fulfilled. The man who had written 'All I can expect is
more of the old, miserable same', received in the new
year exactly what he had expected.
A woman who had listed 10
worthy goals she expected to achieve found that 9 of the
10 goals had been accomplished.
Another man, basing his
expectations upon the negative outlook for his Capricorn
birth sign, predicted, 'I look for difficulties and
frustrations.' His negative expectations were realized.
A woman in the group, whose
birth sign was the same, did not know she should expect
difficulties and predicted a satisfying year which had
indeed come to pass.
Another man in the group had
written, 'As none of the men in my family have survived
beyond the age of 60, therefore, I expect to die this
year.' The man's death had occurred one month before his
sixtieth birthday.
Each of us receives exactly
what we expect, whether our expectations are positive or
negative. We can see from these examples and from the
many we have met during our lives that an attitude of
positive expectancy is crucial to accomplishment and
personal success. How can we plan with positive
expectancy ?
First we must
VIVIDLY IMAGINE.
We must develop the faculty
of seeing with our mind's eye of concise and clear
imagining. The law of attraction that we tend to draw to
ourselves that which we send out from ourselves, cannot
be broken and we must understand and exploit the tendency
to become precisely what we imagine ourselves to be. The
picture we hold in our minds tends to come to us.
Second, we must
ARDENTLY DESIRE.
With the vivid imagination
of our goals, our desire becomes more and more directed
toward these goals. An ardent desire burning within
creates in every new day an opportunity to earn and
justify our rewards; to develop the consciousness and
habits of success; to expect dividends commensurate with
our investment; to seek a challenge to climb to greater
heights. We accept enthusiastically the challenge to
accomplish our dreams.
Third, we must
SINCERELY BELIEVE.
The fruition of our goals,
however vividly imagined and ardently desired, depends
also upon a sincere belief in our ability and worthiness
to attain our goals. Speaking of the power of such
belief, Benjamin Disraeli said, 'Man is not the creature
of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of
men.' We must understand that God has given us power to
perceive, picture, believe, struggle for and attain good
things.? William James affirmed the same truth when he
said, 'Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful
undertaking is the only thing that insures the successful
outcome of our venture.
Fourth, we must
ENTHUSIASTICALLY ACT.
Enthusiasm and action are
complementary and effective partners in bringing
imagination, desire and belief into reality. We must plan
the action that will see our goals accomplished, making
use of appropriate short-range goals. We must plan for
the obstacles we expect to meet and meet them as
opportunities for creativity and as challenges to our
desire and belief. An important part of the power to act
enthusiastically comes from the spirit of love and
sharing with which we view our fellow man. The positive
state of mind breeds acceptance of ourselves and of
others. In such an atmosphere of acceptance and
selfishness, we soon find that the more we give, the more
we are capable of giving and the more we give, the more
we receive in return. The unfailing cycle of giving and
receiving reinforces our commitment to positive
expectancy.
Does living with positive
expectancy mean that life will be easy, free from
disappointment, frustration and difficulties ?
Fortunately not ! The negatives of daily life are like
the obstacles to our goals: they challenge and strengthen
our abilities, resolve and understanding.
One who lives with positive
expectancy knows how to turn problems into procedures,
how to recognize responsibility as opportunity and how,
in adversity, to see equivalent benefit. With positive
expectancy pervading our thoughts, we seek growth and
welcome change.
If you and I want to live
with positive expectancy, we must vividly imagine great
accomplishments. We must ardently desire that this year
be the best year of our lives. We must sincerely believe
in our abilities and in the goodness of man and of God.
We must enthusiastically act upon our own plans and seize
every opportunity to achieve.
I challenge you to plan and
live this year with your thoughts and dreams filled with
POSITIVE EXPECTANCY.
Mr. Anuj
A Shah is Personnel Officer in Elecon Engineering Company Ltd. He can be
contacted at aashah@gear.elecon.com
, Phone: Office - 02692-27327, Residence 36865.
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