DESIGNING YOUR FUTURE by Dr. Joe Rubino

For most people, the future looks like a mere extension of the past. Their expectation of what is to be is consistent with what has been- with a slight and predictable level of improvement.

In contrast to this, consider the possibility that the future lives as the realization of a promise. A promise you make to yourself and to the world. The future will result from your expectations. The quality of your future will be impacted by the commitment you have for it. It lives as a possibility. In other words, you get to invent it. In fact, you are the sole designer and architect of what is to be. And the result will be entirely consistent with your expectation .

Richard Brooke, CEO of Oxyfresh Worldwide, tells us that our future will be directly related to what we expect for it to be. If we expect our future to be worse than our current situation in life, we will sabotage ourselves into making it turn out in alignment with this self fulfilling prophesy. If we expect more of the same results we have to date experienced in our lives, our apathy will generate a future consistent with this expectation.. And lastly, if our expectation is that our future will be better than our present situation, self motivation will result to bring about the positive outcome we envision..

An example of how our positive or negative expectancy plays out to become a self-fulfilling prophesy can be seen with the common occurrence of a novice marathon runner who finds himself out in front leading the pack at the halfway point in the race. If his expectation is not to win the race, self-defeating thoughts ( he is not worthy of winning or he has just been lucky to have got off to a good start) will take over. As a result, his expectation will result in him “choking” and being overtaken by another seasoned runner with a more positive expectation.

The same principle applies to the ghetto child who grows up with the expectation that life is about struggle and scarcity. As a result, this expectation will likely cause her to be blind to possibilities that a more positive expectation would allow for.

We get what we expect.

Take full responsibility for expecting your future to be the way you want it to turn out. Realize that you have consciously or unconsciously attracted everything that shows up in your life to you. If where you are in life, the relationships you have attracted to you, your physical, financial, emotional and spiritual states are not what you desire, decide now to alter your course.

Change your expectations

Design a game plan for action consistent with your expectations

Make requests of those who can support your efforts in some way.

The future exists for each of us as a possibility. When we train ourselves to first expect positive results and then to act in accordance with what we expect, we set the stage for a bright and promising tomorrow. We have the personal power to create our future on purpose. The future can unfold out of our declaration of what we expect it to be like. To the extent we take responsibility to expect it, speak it so as to enroll others in its possibilities and then get into action to bring it about, we will be the force behind its realization.

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The Circle of Sabotage

Your limiting or negative thought --à>>>(leads to)

Developing a limiting or negative belief that does not support you ---à>>>>(which leads to)

A limiting or negative habit --à>>>(which)

Creates similar experiences to further reinforce the cycle -à>>(which creates)

More experiences which reinforce the negative or limiting thoughts…

…and the vicious cycle continues gaining momentum in the wrong direction, taking you further away from the person you want to be.

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EXERCISE FOR DESIGNING YOUR FUTURE ON PURPOSE

Document in your journal your expectations for your future in the areas of your health, prosperity, relationships and personal growth?

Be clear and specify the measurable results you expect.

Identify any negative expectations you have which could sabotage your future results.

What will it cost you to not achieve your expectations?