How many of your goals this year were you able to achieve?

By turning a wish into a dream, a dream into a goal, a goal into a plan and then taking some action (however small) to move towards your dream, you earn the right to expect rather than just wish and wait.

The question you need to answer is, which part of this process is standing between you and the life you want? Do you just dream, and then wish on a star? Or do you bring your dreams into the light of day where you can see them, touch them, and give them the respect they so richly deserve?

To achieve your goals, you must first believe that you can. 

Take the RIGHT actions, the RIGHT way, at the RIGHT time for the RIGHT reasons. Understand this and you can take on anything with confidence. Clearly, if you do not believe you can attain your goals, you won't. However, remain confident that you can succeed at whatever you do, as long as you take the right actions, and you will ultimately prevail.

Simply put, when you learn to expect success, then you will succeed.

Self-confidence is directly affected by what you say to yourself. Get into the habit of telling yourself you can succeed, and you will develop the confidence to take the action necessary to make that happen. When you say, "I know I can", you are giving yourself permission to succeed.

To increase the positive expectancy of success, identify everything you can do to increase your probability of succeeding. Then do every one of them. Increase your positive expectancy by looking for evidence why you will succeed, and then look for even more. The accumulation of convincing evidence justifies your willingness to make the attempt.

Start with one nettling project. Then declare it will be a success. Of course, the next thing to do is to overwhelm yourself with evidence to prove it will be. Put at least one thing per day on your to-do list that will give you a feeling of accomplishment --- and make sure you complete it. This will boost your morale, which will increase your performance.

Even if you think you cannot do something well the first time, try it anyway. When you do something, no matter how poorly, you decrease your fear and gain the information and experience to do it better next time.

Are there things you want, but you hesitate to try because you fear failure more than you expect success? Stop this destructive thinking!

When you develop the confidence to passionately pursue anything and everything you want, you move towards the results you expect.

Until then, your dreams are on hold, because you have not EARNED THE RIGHT TO EXPECT THEM.