Managing Expectations: 10-13-2025

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.” —Willian Shakespeare

1. Have fewer expectations.
2. Have lower expectations for others.
3. Hope for the best and expect the worst.
4. Pray for the best and plan for the worst.
5. Make your expectations conform to known probabilities and realities.
6. Test your expectations against experience, when possible, before committing to them.
7. Have lower expectations so you can be pleasantly surprised when good things happen.
8. Have more calculated expectations and fewer expectations based on assumptions or guesses.
9. Have most of your expectations about the highest goals and principles, which themselves can never disappoint.