Expectations

Expectations are good when it comes to ourselves.  We should expect a lot of ourselves because we are capable of great things.

We get ourselves in trouble when we expect things of others. We expect things out of friends, our family, or our spouses.

The problem is we have these expectations that are unrealistic that no one else even knows about, and we harbor them in our own mind, then we have this secret disappointment when the expectation is not met.

But these expectations are unfair.  Unfair both to those we put them on and unfair to ourselves.

We can save ourselves and others if we get rid of the expectations.  And instead of looking at things to get, we look at things to give.  When we stop expecting different things and just focus on giving we don’t have opportunity to be let down and we might just find we get more joy out of giving than getting.

So stop the expectations.