The Law of Expectation

The law of expectation

written by Ishola N. Ayodele

"What you expect is what you get"

The law of expectations states that “whatever you expect to happen in your life eventually becomes your own self fulfilling prophecy”.

This means that you are always acting as your own fortune teller by the way that you think and talk about how things are going to turn out. When you expect good things to happen to you, good things usually do happen. When you expect bad things to happen to you, bad things usually happen.

This is germane to the accumulation of wealth because it determines what happened to the ideas or opportunities you get in life. No matter how good an idea is if your thought about the idea is negative it will never work for you even if it works for a million people.

A recurring theorem in the field of psychology states that, “A large proportion of our conscious activities are controlled by our unconscious activities”

If your business is not doing well others,

you are not getting contract like others,

you are not getting business opportunities like others,

you have tried and tried to save money but it is to no avail,

your career is not growing like it should,

you are not making a head way with your relationship with your boss, co-workers or other people,

your marriage is not going well and so on

The first person you need to check out is yourself and your first point of call should be your mind. Your present state of the mind is the way it is now based on your understanding or ignorance of this law.

The Law of Expectation works with the Law of Cause & Effect and the Law of Belief. If you understand that whatever you caused to happen must have an equal effect on you. If you act on an idea or opportunity promptly and with determination,

do your job with diligence and honesty,

deal with people with respect and forthrightness,

live with your spouse with sincerity and kindness,

then your expectations on the outcomes should be positive, as you are sure you are doing the right thing and effect will definitely be positive too.

One powerful effect of the Law of Expectation is that even when things are not going as you expected and the odd is against you, as long as your expectation is positive the outcome one way or the other things will put themselves right for you in an inexplicable amazing way that will bewilder you for the rest of your life. 

A Note of Warning

Please don’t misunderstand the Law of expectation to the expectation that you have about people reciprocating your gesture. For instance, expecting your friend to help because you have helped him before is not Law of expectation.

What the law of expectation is teaching you is that, if the dominant thought in your mind is that you will get help you will definitely get help. So, if your friend whom you have helped refused or his unable to help you the law of expectation tells us that as long as your mind is certain you will get help, help will surely come from sources you don’t even know.     

  

On September, 2004 I was to attend the Motivational Congress (a yearly gathering of the best brains in Motivational Speaking and Human Capital Development Consultancy) and I got the information just two weeks to the event. As a member I had a discount I was to pay just N5000. But believe you me that was like N500,000 to me because I was so broke that time I could barely feed myself.

Things were so difficult then that I was practically fasting daily due to lack of fund to even eat. But when I got the news I knew I was going to attend because my expectation was clear and that was “if I was not going to attend the Motivational Congress it will certainly not be because I couldn’t raise N5000” 

Within days of this conviction people begin to need my service and by the following week Tuesday which is five days to the event I paid the N5000. In the evening I called to confirm if my seat has been reserved but I got another shocking news.

It’s not that my money was not received or the seats have all been booked but as a member I am to attend in a dress code which is a dark blue suit and a sky blue shirt. I have suits but I don’t have a dark blue suit and a sky blue shirt. And right there and then I had no money on me or in anywhere. I felt sober and my brother asked me “what are you going to do now?” I looked up and said, “if I am not going to attend this  Congress it will certainly not be because I don’t have a dark blue suit and a sky blue shirt” .

Two days to the event a man came to me that a school in Shomolu local government needed graduation gowns and their number was large but I stay in Ajegunle and had no connection whatsoever to this school. This was too good to be true because it is rare for schools to do their graduation at the end of August. But it turn out they had to delayed it till then because of a circumstance which fortunately is a blessing to me. 

By 5pm on the Friday prior to this event I was coming home smiling with my Dark blue suit and a sky blue shirt with more than enough money for transport {which I didn’t even thought about before}.

You are always acting as your own fortune teller as a result of the expectations you hold. The beauty about this law is that your expectations are largely under your control. This means that you can decide whether you expect to be poor or whether you expect to be prosperous.

 When it comes to money, Wealthy people have a clear idea of what they want and expect to get it. For example wealthy people expect to live lives of financial abundance and have their net worth increase year after year. They may be  

labourers now like Henry Ford {the founder of Ford motors},

street sellers or mechanic like Roman Abramovich {the owner of Chelsea FC}

spare part apprentice like Cosmos Maduka {the chairman of Coscharis group}.    

a boy selling plantain like Timaya {The popular musian}.

But their expectation have always been to own a company and not work for money.

They focus on nurturing their idea and building a business out of it.

Whereas most people who are not wealthy, expect to struggle for their money and just earn enough to get by. They focus on money as the ultimate goal of their labour. This has limited their imagination which causes them to focus their attention on the present moment and the satisfaction of their immediate needs. As a result, their financial expectations also become limited, which ultimately becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that they live by.

If you want to bring financial abundance into your life, experience a good career and have a fulfilling relationship in marriage or with people, you therefore need to think big and expect the best, because what you expect to happen will largely determine the type of things that you work at achieving.

Summary

The expectations you have determine what you think will happen to you in your life, which then determines the aims and objectives that you work to achieve.

The higher your expectations are, the greater a level of wealth that you are likely to pursue. But having high expectations is not enough, as those who only dream of fulfillment without willing to work hard for it, will remain just that, dreamers.

 What are your expectations?

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