Show Up To Flow Up and Glow Up

On a scale of 1 to 10, how fast are you generally able to manifest what you want?

If you’re less than a 10, fancy some help with that?

Many moons ago, I identified how to manifest just about whatever I put my heart into without ever hearing the words manifest or law of attraction. 

But not just manifesting things – more manifesting experiences.

This is how it works; in embodying a desired experience, it allows you to draw in what you wish to have. 

We know this as good ‘ol Law of Attraction, but this is not quite all of it.

There is another law that is a best buddy of the Law of Attraction. It is the Law of Expectation.

It is every bit a natural law and one to master if you get tired of hanging around waiting for your desires to turn up!

Defined by Dr Milton Erickson, a brilliant hypnotherapist at the beginning and middle of the 20th century, the Law of Expectation states that 85% of what you expect to happen will occur.

He also states that the law doesn’t play ‘favourites’, so it doesn’t matter if you expect negative or positive things to happen. The Law of Expectation responds accurately.

You can’t cheat the Law of Expectation. You can’t cheat by wishing an expectation, like, I expect to have my first 10k month this month. That’s a wish, not a real expectation.

A real expectation is tied to your Belief System.

 This is the main reason why even highly motivated people can’t get ahead at times.

 Because somewhere ingrained in their thinking (usually due to an earlier experience) is the belief they can’t.

The Law of Expectation should be talked about more. It makes up such an essential part of understanding, manifesting and creating a remarkable life.

I’d like to break it down for you and make it practical.

Famous Peak Performance writer Benjamin Hardy states in his book ‘Willpower Doesn’t Work’:

“You shape the garden of your mind by planting specific things from your environments, such as the books you read, experiences you have, and people you surround yourself with.” 

― Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

But this goes a lot deeper. Your environment means your home, desk space, nutrition, appearance, bank account, self-care, car, animals, and entertainment. It also represents the context you live in every day, your default beliefs, emotions, actions and the ‘role’ you play out – the ‘identity’ you portray to the world. All this constitutes your environment.

One of the hardest things to do is to lift yourself out of your current circumstances and step up to the level of life you desire. We live with an unconscious expectation of ourselves and our own lives. This expectation not only determines what we have in our lives but also represents what we are willing to settle for.

“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he

or she begins with some wild expectations.”

RALPH CHARELL

For most people, the future holds too many uncertainties. The fear of what might happen tends to overshadow the ray of light representing the life they ultimately desire.

When you cultivate expectation as a daily way of being, you open yourself to allowing the flow of life to bring you all the delights you can imagine. However, if you expect bad things to happen to them (and many people do without knowing it!), they will.

Expectation is a potent driver that very few people ever learn to master in consciousness fully. But here’s the neuroscience behind it: when you expect something, you activate and engage those parts of your mind and the nervous system that can empower you to think the unthinkable and do the undoable.

One of the most effective ways to activate the Law of Expectation in your favour is to develop a clear vision for your life. Most people never even take the time to really define what they want from their lives. I’m sure, if you’re reading this blog, you’re not one of them. However, even those with clear visions often follow the ‘hope and pray’ strategy for achievement.

You may know what you want, but at some level, you don’t believe you can have it. Tough.

Expectation is an entirely different mindset.

It is a mindset of absolute certainty that can be deliberately levered. 

Hoping and praying infer doubt since you always hold two opposing results in your mind’s eye.

You want it, but you don’t think you can have it, so you keep hoping and praying for something outside yourself.

To elevate your life, elevate your expectations.

Raise your expectations of who you want to become and what you believe you deserve. For, what you believe you deserve is based on your expectations.

When you lift your expectations to a higher level, you raise your own standards and raising your standards is the first step to improving your life.

Now, let’s get practical with this.

Consider all the things that make up your environment and the context in which you grow as a person and grow your business (they are bed-buddies!).

You will have to cultivate high expectations in each area that makes up the background of your life, plus all the nuts and bolts of how, when and where you operate. How much do you expect of these arenas for yourself?

When you expect only the very best, you will get only the very best.

What you earn right now is what you expect to earn. 

The amount of free time you have right now is what you expect to have as free time. 

The relationships you have are what you expect them to be. 

The body you have now is the one you expect to have. Ouch, right?

The client avatar you’re serving is currently the one you expect to serve.

What you do in a day is what you expect to do in a day – not what you would like to do – but what you expect. 

This is the fine print of manifestation!

Expectation acts in the same way as a weather vane that determines your internal ‘weather’.

According to your expectations, it will turn out bright and sunny or stormy.

When you expect the best, you’re not simply expecting something good or similar; you’re drawing the line in the sand that determines your highest life. 

It begins with never settling for less than you can do, be or have.

This is not something you do from time to time when you become aware of it, but it develops as a normal way of being, doing and having – your everyday lifestyle.

So let’s take this list that makes up your environment again. On a clean sheet of paper, draw up three columns:

On one side, list everything here and add other items that are personal to you.

Put one item under the other separately, but allow space between the items to write a sentence or two. 

Home, desk space, nutrition, appearance, bank account, self-care, car, animals, entertainment. It also means the context you live in daily, your default beliefs, emotions, wardrobe, relationships, actions and the ‘role’ you play out, in other words, the ‘identity’ you portray to the world.

Now, in the middle column, write down what your expectations are, and you’re going to need to be ruthlessly honest and aware!

For example: 

Relationships – I expect people to respect my boundaries and treat me well. 

Now, look at this. Do you really expect that? Does that play out in reality?

Desk Space – I expect to carry out my days with maximum productivity, flow and effectiveness.

Really? Is all your workspace set up for flow, maximum productivity and effectiveness?

Appearance – I expect my perfect mate to manifest any day now.

Really? Is all your life, appearance and vibration set up to attract your soulmate?

You see how you can confuse desire and expectation so easily!

You can’t BS the laws!

High expectations create high results. When you expect the best, it will become a directional mechanism that will guide you to seeking out and finding what you expect.

Now, let’s take this one step further.

What if you swapped high expectations for highest-self expectations? Issima expectations!

So, in that third column, can you lean into not just real, high expectations but highest self-expectations? Your issima day and self? 

Relationships – I expect that my relationships thrill me and are a major part of my fulfilment.

Do you? Can you? Will you? What will you do today to PROVE THAT EXPECTATION?

Desk space – I expect my work environment to support days of immense creativity and results that delight me. So, does your workspace look and feel like that? How can you change it so that it does?

Appearance – I expect to feel beautiful and powerful in my femininity every day and attract the perfect people and opportunities for my highest good.

Ok, it’s time to look in the mirror and the closet and make sure that your image expresses what you are expecting.

Get it?

It’s such a powerful exercise.

Create expectation by making committed decisions. Nurture your expectations by never settling for anything less than the best you can be, do or have.

And allow the law of Jenni P flow through you. ‘Show up as your highest self, and your highest self will meet you there.”

Be – Issima. It’s just so good.