Wake up every day expecting great things to happen to you. Look forward to some unforeseen goodness to fall from the sky. But make plans and take action as if you’ll never get a thing you don’t scrap for and earn with hard work.
People who live on the hope of unexpected good news end up sitting around waiting to win the lottery. It’s a corrosive, stultifying mindset. People who embrace the opposite, and assume nothing good ever happens and every inch must be taken through sacrifice and grit, are often cynical, overly skeptical, and can miss opportunity because they don’t think it ever knocks.
If you can expect the universe to shower goodness on you every day, yet work like the only rain is the rain you make, you’ll be hopeful and cheerful, yet motivated and persistent. You won’t be bitter when good things don’t fall on your lap, and you won’t miss it when they do.