Sunday, December 21, 2008

Anticipation

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
Samuel Smiles

What do you anticipate happening next year? If you are like most people, you probably anticipate your life continuing much the same as it did in the past under similar conditions. You probably feel that if we didn't have this great recession, your life would be much the same as it was last year. We tend to assume the future will be similar to the past, even in our legal system. That is why things don't change very much in most of our lives. Even when unanticipated things happen, we typically deal with them in the same ways that we're used to, and get back to our same lives.

What if we actively anticipated things that aren't happening right now? What if we expected to accomplish things that we really want but have never seen before? If we want something badly enough, we will find a way to acheive it. Intense anticipation itself transforms possibilities into reality. If we want it, we are capable of acheiving it. The only thing that ever gets in our way is our beleif that it won't happen, our expectation that we can't change the world. That and our subsequent failure to take action.

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