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 and 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.
In other words, 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 such as he is not worthy of winning or he has just been lucky to get 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 building a successful network marketing business. If we expect to succeed, we will be in action consistent with that expectation. We will therefore generate the opportunities that will drive our success.
We get what we expect. Take full responsibility for expecting your life and future network marketing success 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 new 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.
So, my challenge for you today is to write out a clear and specific vision of exactly what your network marketing success will be like in every area of your life. What measurable results and achievements do you expect? Now design an action plan consistent with achieving this level of success and you will have accessed the power to succeed.
 

Dr. Joe Rubino is an internationally acclaimed trainer, author and success coach and the best-selling author of TheSelfEsteemBook.com and 11 other transformational books available worldwide in 19 languages. To receive his complimentary newsletter entitled “The Power to Succeed” visit http://www.TheSelfEsteemBook.com . For more information on his 11 best-selling books, audios, and coaching program, visit http://www.CenterForPersonalReinvention.com