The above story, albeit in a light vein, perfectly demonstrates how your mind should be functioning. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to our progress is not the market, not the lack of opportunities or the state of the country's economy - the major stumbling block is we. You have to decide whether you are a Winner or a Loser. Losers usually live in the past or they live in the dreamland of the future. The Winner lives for today and makes the present work for him.
Winners are ready to make changes and solve problems.
The Pygmalion Effect Research experiments have shown that people both, under and over - achieve, solely because of the instructor's expectations. A classroom of children of identical age and I.Q.level was divided into three groups, each with a teacher for three months. The first group teacher would continuously berate the children and keep on telling them that they were below average. The second group teacher always told her children that they were average whilst the third group teacher kept on repeating to her children that they were really intelligent and certainly above-average. After three months, a uniform test was conducted on all three groups and it was found that the majority of students from each group performed in accordance with what their teacher had described them to be.