Moneylove, Manifestation, and Money Expectations

YESPECTATIONS!

I love creating new words and phrases when I can’t find exactly the right one to convey what I mean. And “yespectations” fits perfectly for the point I want to make.

In Moneylove, I talk about the first step in achieving wealth is to want it, and to acknowledge that you want it, first of all to yourself. But there’s an important next step I have sometimes left out in my life–in fact, I would have to say it is the greatest single stumbling block to my achieving even greater prosperity. In addition to wanting it, you have to ask for it.

Ask And Ye Shall Receive

So Jesus had it right, and this is one of the greatest prosperity conscious statements of all time. But there’s still a third step–you have to have positive expectations that you will get it, what I often term as “robust expectations” of success. In other words, you have to expect a resounding “Yes!” to your request. And I call this

Yespectations!

My first lesson in this came at an early age, I was perhaps eight or nine, but I remember it vividly. My father had a friend named Art, who was a born salesman. The two of them had tried but not succeeded in a small business, and Art went on to take various jobs, mostly as sales manager of small companies. My father went into manufacturing as a foreman, then supervisor.
One day at my father’s company, there suddenly was an opening for the position of sales manager, so he called Art and told him about it. Art came in for an interview, marched in to see the president of the company and said he wouldn’t take the job for a penny less than $30,000. Now this was the 1950s, and it was more than three times what my father was getting. More to the point, it was twice what Art had ever earned. And he got the job and the $30,000. As you can imagine, that story was dinner table conversation at my home for several weeks. (Interestingly enough, some years later, I found myself working at the same radio station as Art’s son, who had some of the same positive expectancy energy as his dad. At a very young age, he became general manager of a major radio station in New York City and even hired me.)

Ask For The Money And Expect A Yes!

It’s not always easy. As I’ve said, I’ve struggled with this one for years. But I have a big advantage–I know it works and have seen it in action on numerous occasions.

My old friend, Mike Blate, author of the first book on fingertip acupressure, took his self-published book into ten publishing houses in New York–cold calling. He asked to see an editor, and got to see about eight of them, usually freshman editors assigned to walk-ins or over-the-transom manuscripts, as unsolicited ones were called. He asked the editors if they had any pain or discomfort. Most overworked young editors often had headaches, some had colds, and he demonstrated the quick healing methods he was teaching in the book. Three editors took his manuscript to consider it, and he soon got a firm offer from Holt, Rinehart, then owned by CBS. Chutzpah? Of course, but Mike is a gregarious guy and genuinely likes talking to people. And he was convinced he was doing the editors a favor by allowing them to take his book, and he was also convinced he would get a “Yes!” from at least one of them.

It takes nerve, a sense of self, a passion for what you are doing, a clear vision of what you will do when you get that “Yes!”, but most of all, the ability to see the results of your success. It takes Yespectations.
Jerry