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Appreciation versus Expectation

Appreciation versus Expectation

One of my favorite quotes by Tony Robbins is “trade your expectations for appreciation and your whole world changes in an instant”. This is so true if we choose to live our life this way. When we live with expectations, a lot of the time we find disappointment, but when we are grateful for everything we have, we soon find more things to be grateful for in our lives. Let’s look at appreciation versus expectation.

When we expect our results and circumstances to be the way we want them to be, we can feel disappointment when unforeseen circumstances happen and change the outcome. These feelings of disappointment begin to attract, through the law of attraction, a domino effect of bad or unpleasant outcomes which causes more frustration not achieving our initial expectation.

When we have gratitude for every result and every circumstance we begin to find we feel good about everything which attracts more results and circumstances into our lives with no frustrations or unpleasant feelings. It all begins with an attitude of gratitude.

I have found that most of my life I have been thankful daily. It probably stems from my being raised in the south by a very southern mother that taught me, sometimes with a belt or a switch, that I use my manners and be grateful for everything I have. See I was taught from a very young age, no one owes you anything in life and you need to be grateful for everything you have. It seems our society has strayed away from that concept. Sadly there are a lot of Americans that feel entitled to things instead of earning them and being grateful when they receive them. I’m not talking about saying grace before one eats dinner; I mean sincerely being thankful for all of the good things in our lives daily. Everyone has something to be grateful for in their life.

I have always taken the time to reflect at the end of each day in my daily prayers personally. But even an atheist can reflect and be grateful daily, because it is not a religious ritual to be grateful. By focusing on things we are grateful for, we will find we will have more positive thoughts. If we dwell on the bad things that happened daily, we will tend to stay negative which attracts more negative into our lives. I find the entitled crowd seems to love to blame certain groups, corporations, government, republicans, democrats, parents, bosses, etc. When in reality they are making themselves a victim. The dictionary defines a victim as one who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or who is deceived or cheated as by one’s own emotions or ignorance. By definition, we cannot be a positive person if we choose expectation versus appreciation. If we are grateful, happy and positive, we will find very soon we don’t like attending “pity parties” because they are not very fun. Positive things will come our way if we persist to have positive thoughts and have faith.

Start today by reflecting in meditation or prayer for every good thing that happens to you today. Forget the negative. Do this for the next 21 straight days and form the habit. As Tony Robbins stated, you will change your life immediately.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”Albert Einstein

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Tim Wilhoit is owner/principal of Your Friend 4 Life Insurance Agency in Nashville, TN. He is a family man, father of 3, grandfather of 1, entrepreneur, insurance agent, life insurance broker, employee benefit specialist, salesman, sales trainer, recruiter, public speaker, blogger, author and team leader with over 29 years of experience in sales and marketing in the insurance and beverage industries.

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