Why having any expectations of others makes you miserable
And what to do instead
One of the greatest obstacles to personal joy, let alone progress and success in your life is having expectations of other people.
When we expect people to do certain things, without any prior agreements in place, and they don’t pull through, we grow resentful.
Has that ever happened to you?
Maybe you had a partnership with someone on a project that involved an expectation of a certain amount of work that each of you would do. But the other person didn’t do close to as much work as you.
You didn’t really verbalise it, but you would stew on it and get frustrated.
You take it personally.
You feel the heaviness of the burden of disappointment.
It happens to everyone, and is the reason many relationships and families can face drama and conflict.
When you expect the world to show up as you’d like it to, or provide you with anything, and things don’t work out the way you want, you can become disappointed.
You’re human and you can have high hopes for others.
But those people who get far realised the futility of expecting anything from anyone a LONG time ago.
