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22-Tho Canadian Champion, Fnday, May 14, 2004 Expect the absolute worst and you'll usually be happy 11»dv# tYou'fkl v ooklng at iL ncludea 240hp, 3.5 fitj,,24. V6 VTEC Snmgi, mwn u frwhWl fail a high percentage of the time before attaining success, 50 you should concentrate on building them back up and kceping them on track. glasses case. 'Mat wouldn't have been so bad had the giasses flot been inside. "T'his is flot good,"~ I thought to myseif, while uttering something considerably nastier. I feared the worst as I gingerly pried open the crushed case and peered inside. The glasses were okay. So, 1 was happy, Happy because 1 expccîcd the glasses to be broken and thcy weren't. You sce how that works? If you keep your optimism uat a minimum, you will rarely be disappointcd. Anything you get is a bonus. Letis say you wcre cxpecting a $1 million inheritance, and you only got $100000, You'd be awfully disappointed, but if you were expecting $10000 and got the $100,000, you'd be ecstatic. The bottom financial line is the same, but one person is happy and the other iso't. It's ail about expectations versus resuit. That's not true for everything of course. Expectations for your own accomplishoients should be high. Few people seem to be satisfied wit.h themselves anyway, an having higher goals cao help us attain them. With your kids or employees, you tell them your expectations are high, but keep them Ilow. People Someday, you'I be oftered a cigarette or be tempted ta smoke. Betore you Start, think about il: every drag you take screws up your body. Smoking cas cause permanent damage ta your body. Once a person staris, il becomes extremely t00gh tb quit. And did we mention ail that cash you'Ii be biowing in the procesa? So, if you're tempted 10 start, ask yourself, "Whatste point? This message broughi 10 you by: Canabîan Etbam pion - you re settmng yourseii UIp loi dis- appointmnent. Figure on them flot retumning your cail if you've lefe a number, and figure on three or four phone cafis to get satisfaction, and then figure you're neyer gomng to get satisfaction, anyway. If you do, it's bonus time, once again. This cao apply to everytlsing. Perhaps you read this colun thinking il was gorng to be funmer than il is. From now on, don't expect anything to be funny in it. Then if something does strike you as humorous, you'l enjoy il that much more. T'hat 's right, juat figure on me being stupid (if you don't already), su then if you happen to like some- thing I write, you'l like me more. You can even say, bey, that guy's pretty smart for an idiot. You know ail this is toue. How many times do you go somewhere expecting to have a great tinte, and you don't? And how many times do you go somnewhere expecting to have a bad tione, and you have a good turne? Just set your mind to it. Things neyer work out as well as you expect or thinlc they should. Neyer. Until now. Wsth your new attitude adjust- ment, you don't expect anytlsing good to happen s0 things will always be better tha you thought they'd be, and you cao live a much happier life. ?M'les! ont 0- CCM.1,Mi Mme ni Mme