{"id":9480,"date":"2022-10-17T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandeliontraininganddevelopment.com\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T13:24:00","slug":"minimum-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandeliontraininganddevelopment.com\/2022\/10\/minimum-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your personal minimum expectation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my work as a therapist and coach, I have accepted that I have relinquished my life to learning. That old adage, ‘the more you learn, the more you realise you have to learn’ rings true on a daily basis. When I was a lecturer, I often said that the day I thought I knew it all, was the day that I needed to quit. After 24 years working with children and young people, they love to pull out a surprise and I find myself reading, researching and on courses as a weekly task.<\/p>\n

However, something that I was never taught was the importance of, not only having expectations of others e.g. following up on goals, promises and tasks, but also doing this with myself.<\/p>\n

Anger and disappointment are all about UNMET expectations.<\/p>\n

However, we can often have high expectations of everyone else, and very low ones of ourselves.<\/p>\n

Before the ego in us all gets irritated by that comment, stick with me.<\/p>\n

What’s your expectation?<\/h3>\n

Have you ever noticed how, whether it is personally or professionally, we can find ourselves irked by something someone else didn’t do that they either promised to, or we expected them to psychically know about?<\/p>\n

Or, perhaps you have noticed that we will find ourselves irritable at someone who does do the things that they said, because it irritates a level of guilt or inferiority in us?<\/p>\n

Funny isn’t it?<\/p>\n

But, how often did you set yourself expectations?<\/p>\n

And, I do NOT mean to do the housework!<\/p>\n

I’m talking about the minimum expectations that we set OURSELVES to ensure that we are mastering our own:<\/p>\n