See also:
Life Lesson #67 ~ Organize Your Time
Life Lesson #17 ~ Achieve True Independence
Life Lesson #34 Build a Positive Work Ethic
The Bill Gates Story
We’ve all heard of times when a very special coach would take a group of rag-tag football players and turn them into a championship team. Or, when a high school music director would transform at best, mediocre singers into an award winning choir—yes, because they worked hard, but first, because they expected greatness!
Remember the people throughout history who have ascended far above the average. They expected more from themselves! Think about it like this—it is simply a matter of relativity. We all expect something of ourselves—we all have a level of self-expectation. Consciously or not, we’re not willing to perform above or below that self-imposed level.
But, if we simply raised that level of self-expectation we would no longer allow ourselves to produce less!
The bottom line is this — we become what we expect of ourselves!
— Jim Lord