Expectations

This last couple of months have been a roller coaster ride. The key aspect has been managing the 'expectations' of each step of the way. Many would argue that it all comes down to ones personality to worry about what the future holds and hence develop expectations upon too little knowledge. After some conversations that I have had over the past weeks, it's good to know i'm not alone.

Clearly it is dangerous to develop an expectation of what the future holds. But this is natural. While you can't predict everything going into each day or each step there are a set of details that one can digest to develop an opinion or expectation into the short term and long term future. In some cases your expectation is that you can't predict what will happen and your expectation is that you won't have a defined level of expectation. But more often than not you have a stab at what that future aspect is. What happens when you develop an expectation that isn't met - positively or negatively?

- Is it better to lower expectations to ensure they are always met and hopefully positively influenced?
- Is it a matter of expecting / guessing better? Developing knowledge to formulate views better?
- Try not to develop expectations. Eg Don't judge?
- Accept that expectations will rarely be met and thus make an expectations but don't get disappointed when it's not met.
- Fight to ensure that your expectations are met.

After all there is nothing greater than having a high expectation of something and it being exceeded. Wouldn't that be nice for everything!

I guess it comes down to different situations. The answer is then perhaps a combination of all options. Either way what has been interesting is having the time to sit back and look at each of these times to evaluate the delta change of these expectations and real situations in the hope that intuition will be optimised and better 'expectations' can be made.

Schoenen Abend.