(From John Maxwell’s book, Talent Is Never Enough)

Belief Determines Expectation

If you want your talent to be lifted to its highest level, then you don’t begin by focusing on your talent.
You begin by harnessing the power of your mind.
Your belief controls everything you do. Accomplishment is more than a matter of working harder or smarter.
It’s also a matter of believing positively. Someone called it the “sure enough” syndrome.
If you expect to fail, sure enough, you will.
If you expect to succeed, sure enough, you will.
You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside.

Personal breakthroughs begin with a change in your beliefs. Why?
Because your beliefs determine your expectations, and your expectations determine your actions.
A belief is a habit of mind in which confidence becomes a conviction that we embrace.
In the long run, a belief is more than an idea that a person possesses.
It is an idea that possesses a person. You need to expect to succeed.
Does that mean you always will? No. You will fail.
You will make mistakes.
But if you expect to win, you maximize your talent, and you keep trying.

~Evolution of Self
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