Negative Expectations – Are You Ready To Drive Them Out?
Written by Kiwi Champ and is filed under the Category: "Negative Mindsets"
In the last article we recognized the dangers of allowing negative expectations to stay in our minds. They are a severe hindrance to our positive mindset and success.
In fact they can be like a bomb hiding in our subconscious minds ready to explode when certain pressures come into our lives. It is imperative that we identify these intruders (find them out) and drive them out.
Just to make sure you are clear on exactly what a negative expectation is, lets look at the following scenario.
This illustrates how one is created and then reinforced in your subconscious mind.
Let’s suppose you decide that you want to try working yet another business opportunity.
You have tried several times before, but you are sure that this one IS going to work. So with great enthusiasm you dive into this new project.
Then the inevitable happens. An obstacle crosses your path, an unexpected difficulty or simply you see no immediate results and start wondering when something will happen.
So discouragement starts to play with your mind. You agree with those thoughts that are plaguing you.
It IS taking too long, and the difficulties encountered ARE more than you expected to have to deal with and WHAM discouragement starts to sets in.
Finally you give up saying to yourself:
“I don’t seem to have what it takes to build a business”OR
“It seems like these opportunities just don’t work”
OR
“Well it looks like this is not meant to be”
This latter one is a classic. I have heard this SO many times over the years I want to almost scream every time I hear it again. It reveals such a passive – “what will be will be” attitude.
So now you have strengthened a negative expectation that was already lodged in the depths of your mind. How so?
You had tried this once before and gave up. When you gave up, you had made a decision which was archived in your subconscious mind in the category “negative expectation”.
As soon as you encountered a measure of discouragement with this latest attempt, the old file came zooming up to the forefront of your mind to challenge you.
Don’t you remember? (You say to yourself)
No business opportunity ever has worked for you.
You remember and agree 
So now that negative expectation is stronger.
So let’s drive it out this negative expectation now that we have found it out.
(Remember Step 1 was “Find Them Out).
2. Drive Them Out.
Yes, but how? I have discovered that the very best way to get rid of any undesirable thinking pattern in my life is to displace it.
Yes – drive it out by displacement.
What is displacement? If you take a glass filled with dirty water and place something heavy in the same glass, what happens to the water? Right, it is displaced.
And if you run that same glass under a tap of fresh clear water, what happens to the dirty water? Right, the clear water takes its place, right? The more clean water that is poured into the glass, the more the dirty water is displaced.
In this illustration it is obvious that the dirty water represents the negative expectations.
So what represents the clean water that will do the displacing?
The 3 main ingredients of this “clean water” plan:
1. This is war!
The first thing to do is to recognize that you are declaring war these hidden roots in your mind.
The declaration of war is a very positive, definite and determined decision.
Have you made this decision? Are you determined to win?
2. Write down:
You were born to make a difference in the lives of others. This is the center of the reason you are here on this planet, this is your “WHY”.
Your WHY is the reason you will continue to fight to win when the war becomes strong and tiring.
Write down the names of the people (or group of people) in who’s lives you want to make a difference.
Put these names on your vision board, together with pictures.
3. Daily action plan:
Write out a daily action plan of war. This plan will commit you to at least 30 minutes a day of focused reading, listening to cds or watching dvds of motivational and inspirational teachings. You need to immerse yourself in all that is positive.
Some suggestions for reading:
The Bible
Success Principles (How to get from where you are to where you want to be) by Jack Canfield
The Everyday Visionary – Focus Your Thoughts Change Your Life by Jesse Du Plantis
Champions Are Born, Losers Are Made by John Di Lemme.
Your daily action plan is your commitment to fight to win! Act on it every day, and never forget that:
Recommended: Download these free mp3s and mp4s and add them to your daily battle plan of action.
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