Extreme Self Care

Jim Edwards has a great illustration of the difference between simply ‘hoping’ and ‘expecting’. You can try this exercise yourself. Close your eyes and try to HOPE you’ll make a million dollars this year (or whatever number might get you excited). Just sit there and hope and hope and hope.

Now if you pay attention you’ll notice you’ll probably a little bit slumped over and if had to stake your life on it – there’s no way you’d bet you really would make that mil this year. Now try the same exercise but this time EXPECT to earn a million dollars. I mean really expect it.
Now look at the way you are sitting, breathing and feeling. I’d wager it’s a little different. Your expectations determine your results.

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Optimist Creed

by Christian D. Larson, 1912

PROMISE YOURSELF

• To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
• To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person
  you meet.
• To make all your friends feel that there is something in
  them.
• To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism

  come true.

• To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and
  to expect only the best.
• To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as
  you are about your own.
• To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater

  achievements of the future.

• To wear a cheerful countenance at all timed and give every
  living creature you meet a smile.
• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that
  you have no time to criticize others.
• To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong
  for rear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
• To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the
  world, not in loud words but in great deeds.
• To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side
  so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

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A great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary
for him to make a decisions which insured his success on the
battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful
foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into
boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and
equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried
them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, “you see
the boats going up in smoke. That means we cannot leave these
shores alive unless we win. We now have no choice- we win- or
we perish.

They won.
Every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the
present, was a dreamer.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never
see them in your bank account.

Tolerance and an open mind are practical necessities of the
dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed
before they start.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead
and do it.

EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN
EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.

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