It Comes With The Territory

It Comes With The Territory

Our lifetime is not filled with our own choices.  Many times, we're in a situation of our own choice and many times as well, it's not to our liking our choices.  And the mother of all ironies, in those moments we chose to be in, there are 'GIVENS' that 'COMES WITH THE TERRITORY'.  And those 'GIVENS' are non-negotiable at all.  And if you can't accept those 'GIVENS', the only option left for you is to step out of that 'TERRITORY'

If in school, you're now at the 'top of the class', if at work, you're touted groomed for a senior leadership role in the future, if in business, you have etched your mark wherein your restaurant cuisine is top-notch, what happens next is that you, as a student, as a worker, as a businessman, will have to endeavor to meet the high expectations set forth.  If you wooed your fiancee impressively and she's now your wife, you got to stand out to everything you verbalized and committed to her.

You don't muscle your way into a situation and yet you refuse to abide by the set of norms and expectations that came ahead of it.  When we travel, we got to follow all the rules of the airlines for the duration of our flight.  Finally, when we get billeted in a hotel, once you step into your hotel room, the first poster staring at your face will be the HOUSE RULES you got to comply with and if you can't commit to it, you got to eke yourself out of it.  All these COMES WITH THE TERRITORY.  Such is life, BTW.

And here's the rub BTW.  We are not cascading the message that you should MEET expectations because you need to EXCEED expectations.  If you end up with a 'MEETS' results, you are just in the middle of the pack, you are just another one within the crowd.  When and where you 'EXCEED', that will propel you to unprecedented heights even as you continue to scale up the steep road towards success.  Let's get back into our relationship with our loved ones.  Do we think our partner/spouse will be super-duper happy when you 'MEETS' expectations ?  No sirrrrs, you got to 'EXCEED'.

And here's the bombshell.  Life itself 'DOES NOT MEET EXPECTATIONS'.  Either you fail or you succeed.  Either you FLY or you FLOP.  Nothing is cut-out along the median, within the averages.  Do we remember our milestone successes to date ?  Do you agree that you EXCEED EXPECTATIONS in all those counts ?  And as you continue to step up in life, you will get embroiled with harder issues up front, more frustrating challenges ahead of you, all because as you progress in life, it all COMES WITH THE TERRITORY.  Like it or not, this is a happy problem for us all to embrace.  Do you agree, dude ❓❓❓