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Empower Your Dreams

A Personal Power and Success Course
by
Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
www.quantum-self.com
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Session 8 ~
What Are You Really Expecting?
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Dear Friend,

It might seem odd for me to ask you if you expect to be disappointed regarding achieving your dreams. But are you?

Are you perhaps expecting to fall short of your goal, or do you somehow expect to lose interest and quit? Has this happened to you before?

Stop for a moment and ask yourself if you have ever thought about starting a new project, but had a little voice in the back of your mind
nag at you with negative messages. Perhaps that voice spoke about your ability to satisfactorily complete the task?

Or have you ever just shrugged off a promising idea by just convincing yourself that it couldn’t work anyway.

Why do we do this?
There are a number of reasons why people tend to have "trouble" achieving their dreams. The most obvious reasons include:

• Fear of failure,
• Lack of energy,
• No personal history of success,
• Fear of being judged by others,
• Lack of self-confidence, and
• Low self esteem.

But there’s one more reason you may not be as familiar with -– your subconscious expectations.

Your subconscious mind is a powerful force either for, or against, the achievement of your dreams and goals. This is true because the subconscious mind is the source of what you can call your "background noise."

Your subconscious background noise will always manage to override your conscious intentions and determination, unless you take direct and focused action to put it in its place!

Why is this so?

Your subconscious mind has the upper hand for two basic reasons:

1. It holds your self-concept, which is based on your entire lifetime of experiences, and basically sets the stage for all of your beliefs about yourself and your potential for success, and
   
2. It operates 24 hours a day in the background, and therefore overrides your conscious mind –- which operates only when you're awake.

That’s why although you may have a conscious determination to achieve your goals -– you may still fail.

In the end, the background messages of your deep subconscious mind will rule every time! It’s why you lose your willpower or enthusiasm, or begin to procrastinate, or simply forget about your goal.

It’s important to realize that just pretending those ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) aren’t there will NOT make them go away.

If you truly want to achieve your goals you’ll need to face your sub-conscious negative expectations and ANTs straight on!

Here’s a suggested strategy:

1. Examine your Negative Expectations -– Drag any negative expectations right up to the surface. You may find many of them are like the “boogie man” that hid under your bed when you were a child. But until you turn on the light and take a good look -– fear will just continue to have a grip on your mind.
   
2. Be Kind to Yourself -– Remember that your deep subconscious mind has stored a lifetime of experiences -- including any failures or undesirable outcomes. It will take some time to overcome this, but it can be conquered with the right focused effort.
   
3. Forget Fear -– You’ll find that as you become more and more consciously aware of any limiting subconscious messages and deal with them head on -– you'll also become increasingly self-confident and fearless.
   
4. Remember to Take Action -– In the end, any success is achieved by taking a series of meaningful steps toward a goal. Learn from your experiences, and just "keep on keeping on."
   

Action Tips:
Are you ready yet? You are personally invited to come discover a life-changing method of achieving your goals -– even if nothing has ever worked for you before!

My new Success Course does what no other personal empowerment book or course has ever done! It takes you right into your mind, and shows you exactly how to create permanent, truly lasting improvements in your motivation, focus, and achievement!

Don’t let procrastination destroy your dreams! => Invest in Yourself!

I sincerely hope this course is helping you focus more effectively on achieving the level of success you desire!

Your friend,

 

Dr. Jill
www.quantum-self.com