3. The Law of Expectations
Whatever you expect, with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling prophecy.
You are always acting as a fortune-teller in your own life by the way you think and talk about how situations are going to turn out. When you confidently expect good things to happen, good things usually happen to you. If you expect negative things to happen, you are usually not disappointed.
Your expectations have an inordinate effect on the people around you as well. What you expect from people and situations determines your attitude toward them more than any other factor, and people reflect your attitude right back at you, like a mirror, whether positive or negative.
Dr. Robert Rosenthal of Harvard conducted dozens of controlled experiments ...
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