How Do You Manage Expectations?

How Do You Manage Expectations?

Is this a topic worth our time today?  Yes, absolutely I swear.  Why?  Simple.  Lots of misses [and sometimes mishaps] are happening all over the place all because of we tend to overlook the need for us to really manage expectations.  Oh, the devil's advocate might confront me with 'OH WE CAN LIVE WITH THAT', NO ISSUES'.  Not until you realized that you fumbled BIGTIME.

Seriously, when is the earliest time we would fall off expectations?  Could be as early as our parents unleashed us because finally we would be going to school.  DON'T get me wrong though.  Shortfall from expectations are NOT that prevalent and pervasive during our childhood.  It is when we start creeping towards adulthood when gaps and disconnects with regard expectations start to surface.  Oh, God knows how many times we fell short of expectations.

Let's rattle off of having raised expectations sometimes way beyond the roof.  When you were out in the job market, you brought out the best YOU in all those interviews.  Lo and behold you got hired for a coveted job but once you got onboarded, you had those delivery shortfalls. And who's dejected?  DON'T look farther than that hiring manager who you 'knocked off' with that A-performance in the interviews.  And do you remember when you were wooing your 'dream partner-spouse', when you were promising the moon, the stars and all ?

OR, look at yourself.  When you were so driven, so overly ambitious, you wanted to accomplish one too many too soon then only to falter because you fell short of expectations?  Or if you were a budding entrepreneur, your pre-launch was just so electric and so perfectly executed by your marketing experts but when your operations started to grind, your initial customers hardly became repeat customers.  Would you know WHY

Frankly, in life, if our performance meets expectations, that runs alongside $$$$$ and try faltering and fumbling, the $$$$$ will go on a skid.  So what's the FIX for this?  Be TRUE, Be REALISTIC, Be PRAGMATIC, Be GROUNDED, Be RATIONAL, Be LEVEL-HEADED.  In that manner, we can avert DISMAY, DEJECTION, DISAPPOINTMENT.  This is no rocket science so you'll be fine. dude ✅✅✅