I Double-Super-Secret Promise You
It won’t work. It’s hard. I’m not good at that. They won’t do it. You gotta be lucky. The situation I’m looking for doesn’t exist. …
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We Get What We Expect
Maybe this sounds silly, trite, or just plain wrong. Yet we see daily reminders of how reality generally matches what we expect. A quick look …
We Needn’t
Assuming we know the outcomes we want to see, there are two ways we can approach any given situation. We can worry about how it …
Expect Big Picture End Results
Yes, expect more. But what we expect matters. If we expect specifics–especially what a specific person or situation could or should give us–we will have …
Expect More
We all always get the level of success we expect. Want more? Expect more. In your corner, Mike PS: Rien de plus simple, oui? …
Inevitable Fruit
One way to succeed is to act as if we have already achieved the essence of whatever it is we wanted. For example, we might say that the …
How To Expect Them To Do Well
In yesterday’s note, we saw how our beliefs about people’s capabilities affect their performance. Regardless of how much we may want them to do well, if …
Expect Them to Do Well
We get what we expect. Not what we hope, not what we think should be. This is true in general and it is especially true …
What Do You Expect?
We can live life and lead others as if we are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Anticipating that something bad is bound to happen …
Expect It to Go Well
If we expect that meeting or this interaction to go poorly, it will. If we are even concerned a bit, our results will fall short …