You either expand or you contract, and if you’re not expanding . . . you’re contracting. Change is inevitable and in life, you’re either going up or you’re going down; you can never stay level forever.
But, why is it that certain types of people always end up successful and expanding? And other people end up on the short end of the stick no matter what advantage they start out with?
Even when given the advantage of knowledge, training or experience, the individuals in the latter group seem to not be able to apply or use this advantage. Yet people in the former group mentioned above somehow seem to be able to turn any situation into a “win” for not only themselves but those connected with them as well.
So, what is the fundamental difference between these two types of people?
Some people get so involved with their negativity that this becomes the theme of their lives and the justification and excuse for their failures. It tends to feed on itself and create more of the same.
Successful people also have a pattern of success in their lives. But to fully grasp it, you have to look for a factor that is as simple as it is 
significant.
Successful people EXPECT to succeed. They live their lives with an expectancy of positive things happening to them. You can sense it and feel it when you’re around someone who is positive and expects good things to happen.
Winners may not always have been on top, but the vast majority of them “expected” to win. Once in a great while, by some fluke someone – who never expected to win, but just expected to “run the race” – ends up crossing the finish line first, usually because of some accident other unusual circumstance, but this is the exception.
It’s how you see yourself; as a winner or a loser. Either way, your opinion of yourself is a self full-filling prophecy – a positive expectancy or a negative expectancy. Which one do you have?
Do a little survey of yourself by asking: What do I expect to happen mostly? Am I mostly optimistic or pessimistic? How do I really see myself?
Whatever your answer, you’ll be better off by finding out what it is. If you’re a winner in your own mind, strengthen it. If you see yourself as a loser, take fast action now to change that attitude but whatever effective method available.
Your future and your life depend upon it.
daniel w. jacobs
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