Post by bagger015 on Mar 26, 2007 19:02:30 GMT -5
Raise your expectations
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It can be tempting to lower your expectations when things are not going your way. Yet the most realistic response is not to lower your expectations, but in fact to raise them higher.
It may seem that lowering your expectations so they're more in line with your reality would protect you from disappointment. Yet lowering your expectations is sure to bring on even more disappointment.
If you're disappointed with the results you're getting, it's not because your expectations are too high. It's because those expectations are not high enough to pull you forward.
Raise your expectations to the point where they become so meaningful and compelling that you cannot help but fulfill them. Choose those expectations that will drive you in each moment to do what must be done to reach them.
When the going gets rough, the answer is not to give up on your dreams. The answer is to grab on to those dreams, and to put them front and center in your life.
Set your expectations high, connect solidly and consistently with them, and those expectations will give a positive, effective direction to your life. Expect the very best, and let those expectations drive you to live out your most cherished dreams.
Ralph Marston
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Copyright (C) 2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All rights reserved.
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It can be tempting to lower your expectations when things are not going your way. Yet the most realistic response is not to lower your expectations, but in fact to raise them higher.
It may seem that lowering your expectations so they're more in line with your reality would protect you from disappointment. Yet lowering your expectations is sure to bring on even more disappointment.
If you're disappointed with the results you're getting, it's not because your expectations are too high. It's because those expectations are not high enough to pull you forward.
Raise your expectations to the point where they become so meaningful and compelling that you cannot help but fulfill them. Choose those expectations that will drive you in each moment to do what must be done to reach them.
When the going gets rough, the answer is not to give up on your dreams. The answer is to grab on to those dreams, and to put them front and center in your life.
Set your expectations high, connect solidly and consistently with them, and those expectations will give a positive, effective direction to your life. Expect the very best, and let those expectations drive you to live out your most cherished dreams.
Ralph Marston
............................................................................
This is the Daily Motivator email edition.
Copyright (C) 2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All rights reserved.
Visit The Daily Motivator web site at greatday.com for an archive of more than 2,500 daily messages, inspirational photos and more.
I've been so stupid, I can't believe I did all that to myself, by the time I flew home to Canada, I was 94lbs, and I looked like crap! But I've now been clean for 32 days and I am so happy, addiction is a form of suicide, everyday that I was using I just wanted to die, and at the very begining of my recovery I wanted to die even more than before. I'm 21 yrs old and I've been using hard drugs since I was 11, that's the honest truth, but I was 4 years clean, after becomming a herion addict, before I moved to Costa Rica. I thought that I had my problem WELL under controll. That just goes to show you that when you start to think like that is when it will sneak up on you and takes controll of you and your life once again. So I say to all, how can there NOT be SOME kind of higher power, fait, destiny or karma? There must be some kind of plan for me I should've died, and that is just the tip of the iceburg for my story, I grew up in group-homes and youth jails, I had many other overdoses, as well as alchol poisoning several times, between the ages od 13-20 as well, I don't know what but something kept me alive and now I'm just trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do with myself. So please, everyone, know that someone out there loves you, and love yourself. Loving someone else is easy, loving yourself is the hardest thing to do. so every morning when you get up and look in the mirror, tell youself that you ARE beautiful and that you DO love youself!
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.