expect – balance

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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 […]

Maybe this sounds silly, trite, or just plain wrong. Yet we see daily reminders of how reality generally matches what we expect. […]

Assuming we know the outcomes we want to see, there are two ways we can approach any given situation. We can worry […]

Yes, expect more. But what we expect matters. If we expect specifics–especially what a specific person or situation could or should give […]

We all always get the level of success we expect. Want more? Expect more. In your corner, Mike PS: Rien de […]

One way to succeed is to act as if we have already achieved the essence of whatever it is we wanted. For example, we […]

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 […]

We get what we expect. Not what we hope, not what we think should be. This is true in general and it […]

We can live life and lead others as if we are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Anticipating that something bad […]

If we expect that meeting or this interaction to go poorly, it will. If we are even concerned a bit, our results […]