Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to today's episode. So this episode is all about managing your

expectations of others, how to stop feeling let down, but it's also going to make you realize

why it is that people keep letting you down because most of the time, definitely not all the time,

and I'll explain that throughout the episode, but most of the time that you feel let down

can actually be avoided

based on how you manage your expectations around what people are going to give you or what

you expect them to give you. So you're going to realize that also a lot of the stress in your life,

a lot of your anxiety, your sadness, your resentment, anger, your depressive states,

it comes down to your expectations not being met.

Okay.

So thinking that someone's going to do something for you or thinking that someone's going to behave a

certain way for you and then feeling really hurt and upset when they don't.

And the worst thing, and what I'm going to focus on this episode is when you expect things

from people who rarely or who have never shown you that they have capacity to do that thing for you.

It doesn't make them a bad person.

They might be really good in all other areas, but there's this one thing that you expect from

them, even though they've never shown you that they're capable of doing that for you,

or they're extremely inconsistent with doing that thing for you. Okay. So if you can

manage your expectations around what someone's going to do for you, then the amount of times that

you're going to be let down is going to be reduced dramatically. And this is not to say,

oh, just expect less from people, not at all. You're going to see this episode what I mean,

okay? It's actually, you're actually just learning to set boundaries. And then the people that show up all the time, of course, expect

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