What do you Expect?

This morning as I was thinking about my hopes and dreams for 2012, I had an amazing realization.  How many resolutions do we make without much of a belief that they will really happen?  Can we really lose 20 pounds, quit smoking, pay all our debts, and mend our relationships?  Do we really think it will happen when it hasn't happened the last 10 times we tried?  How do we even start to do all those things?  How can we have the time and energy to figure it all out and follow through? It makes me tired just to think about it!

The realization I had, was that what actually happens is just what we expect to happen.  We don't really expect anything to change, so it doesn't.  But what if we DID expect it?  What if we really believed that it was possible, in fact, inevitable that we could have what we want in our life?  What if the secret is in our expectations?  Most of the things we expect to happen, do happen.  We get up in the morning, we go to work, people treat us the way they always treat us, we do the things we always do, everything goes along according to plan.  It's only when we think about making changes that our reality doesn't match our expectations.  We tend to expect what we have always had.  No wonder things don't change!!!!
What if, instead of trying to figure out how I will earn that money, sell those books, fix those relationships, make that difference, I can leave the details to the Universe and just work on my expectations?

Yesterday I went skating with my husband.  There are only a few spaces for cars to park close to the skating pond, and a big parking lot a bit farther away.  We turned into the close lot, and I was totally expecting us to find a spot, even thought it was a busy time of day.  There was a truck ahead of us, and I saw that there was a car ready to pull out.  Of course, we thought the truck would take that spot, but he apparently didn't notice, and drove right by.  We got the spot.  Maybe the driver of the truck was not expecting to find a parking spot, but we were!   This is a tiny example that you can see in your own life if you look.  Once you see that we really do get what we expect in life, you can start to use it in a bigger way, to create the life of your dreams.  That is what I am planning to do in 2012.  I'll let you know how it goes!
Happy New Year everybody!