SELF FULFILLING PROPHESY: You caused it!

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Have you wondered why you sometimes believe something will definitely happen to you and it does? Or why you were so sure the man won't like you and he didn't? Or why you just knew out of evryone in your large class you would be called up to answer the question and you were? Some think it is because they have psychic predicting powers - not really... I don't think you do.

It is most likely because you activated the 'Self Fulfilling Prophesy', more like self sabotage really.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.
- Robert K. Merton

What this means that there is a positive correlation between belief and behavior.

What you might have had in mind might have been false but because you believed it, you began to exhibit certain behaviors that made it comes true.

Let's use the case of the student (Ella) in a large class.
So the lecturer says: 'i have a question for the class ad i'm going to pick one of you to answer it' (with the best straight face he could iron out)

On hearing this, Ella goes: 'I know this man his going to call me, I just know it'.

Viola, she did know it cause she got pick! But what she might not know is she caused her being selected. How? She must have exhibited behaviors that placed a big red arrow side on her head that screamed PICK ME PICK ME I'M RIPE FOR THE PICKING

Same thing applies to other situations where we have allowed what we believe (even when it is false) become our reality. It is the basic principle explained by law of attraction also.

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The bible has also told us of how powerful our thoughts are and advises you think of good things.
Philipians 4:8
'Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.'

So, when next things are not going so fine and you know you had predicted it before now, don't blame your ancestors, don't blame that old woman in your village living her own life. Instead, check yourself because you most likely cause it!

Stay woke.