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Increase Your Results by Expecting to Win.

    “In our own lives, having a mindset of expecting to win increases our odds of winning.  It helps us get better results.  And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning – and the upward cycle continues.  It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  As Harvard Business School professor and writer Rosabeth Moss Kanter has observed, ‘Confidence consists of positive expectations for favorable outcomes… winning begets winning, because it produces confidence at four levels.’  The first of those levels, she says, is ‘self-confidence: an emotional climate of high expectations.’  The second level is ‘confidence in one another.’  So if you want to increase your results, expect to win – not only for yourself, but also for your team.  Not at all costs, but honorably.  Not at the expense of others, but in conjunction with others.  Expecting to win – and expecting others to win – is a fundamental approach of helping to bring it about.” ~ Stephen M. R. Covey, The Speed of Trust

      “He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.  He lives on the principle of ‘nothing attempted, nothing gained’ and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.” ~ Wilfred Peterson, The Art of Living

        “The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for ‘as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’  The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.” ~ Wilfred Peterson, The Art of Living

          “A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs… he is jolted disagreeably by every pebble in the road.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

            “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” ~ William Shakespeare

              “Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts.  The only true gift is a portion of thyself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson