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The Results of Lowering Expectations

You’ll find a selection of hand-picked articles provided by a variety of authors included in this post to give you a solid foundation regarding lowering your expectations, but first, a few brief points to consider.

Do you have high expectations for almost everything? If so, do you find yourself always disappointed? Along with high expectations comes disappointment. If you lower your expectations, you won’t get disappointed as much as when your standards are high.

Does this mean you should settle for any outcome? Absolutely not! You should get the result you want and don’t settle for the crucial things in life.

When setting expectations, you need a balance. You don’t want an expectation so high you’re never satisfied, and you don’t want your expectation so low you’ll accept any outcome.

When it comes to goals, you need the same balance if you set your goal too high, you’ll never achieve it, and if you set your goal too low, you could have easily done better.

Belief is a big part of the achievement process. The purpose of lowering expectations is not to lower your belief or discourage you, but rather to keep you from becoming discouraged when you don’t get what you want and give up.

For myself, if I have an important goal, I will set it high, but at the same time, if I don’t achieve my goal, I don’t get discouraged. In other words, if it happens, that’s great, but if it doesn’t, I’m not disappointed.

I have seen people set goals that are difficult to achieve, and they become obsessed with achieving the goal no matter what gets in their way, friends, family, marriage, etc.

I find it especially funny when they set a goal for something that is out of their control, and they push hard to achieve it.

Resources

Lower the expectations of your outcome, and you may live a happier life. Have a look below at the resources to see the viewpoints of others in regards to lowering expectations.