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From: "Dianne Devereux" <dianne19@...>

Hi all, I thought that this was a powerful story of positive expectation at
work. At the bottom is a list of my expectations.

Great Expectations

Pete Rose, the famous baseball player, and I have never
met, but he taught me something so valuable that it changed
my life.
Pete was being interviewed in spring training the year
he was about to break Ty Cobb's all time hits record. One
reporter blurted out, "Pete, you only need 78 hits to break
the record. How many at-bats do you think you'll need to get
the 78 hits?"
Without hesitation, Pete just stared at the reporter
and very matter-of-factly said, "78." The reporter yelled
back, "Ah, come on Pete, you don't expect to get 78 hits in
78 at-bats do you?"
Mr. Rose calmly shared his philosophy with the throngs
of reporters who were anxiously awaiting his reply to this
seemingly boastful claim. "Every time I step up to the
plate, I expect to get a hit! If I don't expect to get a
hit, I have no right to step in the batter's box in the
first place!"
"If I go up hoping to get a hit," he continued, "then I
probably don't have a prayer to get a hit. It is a positive
expectation that has gotten me all of the hits in the first
place."
When I thought about Pete Rose's philosophy and how it
applied to everyday life, I felt a little embarrassed. As a
business person, I was hoping to make my sales quotas. As a
father, I was hoping to be a good dad. As a married man, I
was hoping to be a good husband.
The truth was that I was an adequate salesperson, I was
a not so bad father, and I was an okay husband. I
immediately decided that being okay was not enough! I wanted
to be a great salesperson, a great father and a great
husband. I changed my attitude to one of positive
expectation, and the results were amazing. I was fortunate
enough to win a few sales trips, I won Coach of the Year in
my son's baseball league and I share a loving relationship
with my wife, Karen, to whom I expect to be married for the
rest of my life! Thanks, Mr. Rose!

By Barry Spilchuk
from A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Barry
Spilchuk

I expect to live happily ever after.
I expect to be a great mother.
I expect to have an ever deepening relationship with my husband.
I expect to live in a beautiful home surrounded by nature yet close to all
the conveniences that I desire.
I expect to drive a green fully loaded Durango.
I expect to pay cash for everything that I purchase.
I expect to see my children live joyously and passionately fulfilling their
intentions for being.
I expect everything to always click into place with brilliance and ease.
I expect surprises and delights from the universe.
I expect wonderful rendezvous and serendipities.
I expect abundance of every kind.
I expect to come up with brilliant ideas.
I expect to rendezvous with like-minded people.
I expect to fully know who I am and my power.
I expect always to be guided to thoughts that are in harmony with my core
desires.
I expect to continually deepen my understanding of Law of Attraction in
comfortable, humorous and delicious ways.
I expect that the universe is always bringing me that which is for my
highest good.
I expect to be inspired to the thoughts, words and actions that bring me the
greatest joy.
I expect to see evidence of Well-being every where I go.

What are some of your expectation?

Love,
Dianne