Most people spend their lives bracing themselves…
… for rejection.
… for bad news.
… for the plan to fall apart.
… for the other shoe to drop.
You don’t want to train yourself to have those experiences, do you?
Common thoughts that will drive you to prepare for the worst:
– What if the contract falls through?
– The deadline is coming. What if I don’t make it?
– I haven’t heard from _________. Something’s wrong.
– It’s too good to be true. It was too easy.
– I can’t find good help. Why bother?
– I’ve tried this before. What if I fail again?
When you flirt with these thoughts, you begin to make decisions about what your outcome will be.
Every expectation creates a corresponding behavior.
If you expect rejection, you communicate one way.
If you expect prosperity, you communicate another.
That’s why your expectations are more than just thoughts. They’re instructions your brain follows.
You begin bracing yourself for a less-than-ideal outcome and anticipate future struggle.
When you expect something to fail, your brain immediately starts looking for evidence that it’s going to fail.
- You second-guess every decision.
- You hesitate instead of taking clear, forward-moving action.
- You overthink simple conversations.
- Your uncertainty leaks into your emails, proposals, pricing, and conversations.
Eventually, your actions start creating the very outcome you’ve been rehearsing in your mind.
But when you brace yourself for the outcome you want, you create a chain of events that lead to clients, prosperity, and peace.
Imagine you send a proposal to a potential 5-Star Client.
Two days go by, and you don’t hear back
If you’re bracing for rejection, you’ll think:
“Oh my God. They hated it.”
“I priced it too high.”
“I should send another email.”
Now you’re dripping in fear-based energy… and acting on it. Ugh.
You’re driven by trying to convince them to go with you. You might even pester them with requests to move forward.
They sense your neediness, lack of confidence, or pushiness and are turned off.
But if you’re bracing for prosperity…
You assume they’re busy and go about your day.
You follow up when it’s appropriate because you trust that all is well.
And you have a completely different experience.
You act with confidence and grace. Your strategies, conversations, and intuition serve you in a very positive way.
Every day, you’re bracing yourself for something.
Rejection, struggle, disappointment…
or prosperity, 5-Star Clients, support, and success.
Whatever you prepare for shapes the decisions you make before the outcome ever arrives.
So for the next week, every time you notice yourself preparing for failure, stop and ask:
“What would I do if I expected this to work out?”
Then do that thing!