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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

2366: How to Deal With Expectations AND 5 Steps to Envision Your Ideal Life by Shirley of Daring Living

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Shirley Huang of Daring Living shares two short posts covering how to deal with expectations and 5 steps to envision your ideal life Episode 2366: How to Deal With Expectations AND 5 Steps to Envision Your Ideal Life by Shirley of Daring Living Shirley is a Certified Life Coach who helps driven women create joy and success through brain-based coaching, self compassion, and emotional resilience. The original posts are located here: https://daringliving.com/how-to-deal-with-expectations/ & https://daringliving.com/how-to-envision-create-ideal-life/   Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2366, how to deal with expectations and five steps to

0:07.8

envision your ideal life, both by surely of daringliving.com and I'm Justin Malik, the guy that reads

0:13.9

to you every single day of the year including weekends and holidays, two posts today, one talking

0:19.1

about expectations which I just talked about in the commentary from yesterday's episode, how

0:23.9

they recommend checking that one out. But with that let's get right to the two posts as we optimize

0:29.3

your life. How to Deal with Expectations by Surely of DaringLiving.com

0:40.2

Hey friend, let's talk about expectations, expectations from your parents, from your partner,

0:46.4

from your boss, man from your peers. If you're a millennial in your 20s to early 30s,

0:52.3

this is a phase where a lot of us are still navigating through life, trying to figure out what

0:56.9

we want to do and learning about what's important to us. Because we're still discovering ourselves

1:02.6

when we receive expectations from others, it can be very likely for us to take on others'

1:07.9

expectations thinking that we have to meet up to that. Here are some tips on how you can get

1:14.0

out of that mindset, how to deal with expectations. Number one, identify what's your stuff versus other

1:22.7

people's stuff. When people give you expectations, it is their stuff, not yours. The expectations

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other set for you come from their own thoughts, beliefs, past experiences, values, how they're

1:36.1

taught growing up, what they're familiar with, etc. You get the point. Is everything to do with them

1:42.5

and nothing to do with you? As a person on the receiving end of the expectation, you can choose to

1:48.4

make it mean however you want, because you're always in control of your thoughts. Number two,

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you can choose not to take on others' expectations if you don't want to. Decide if you want to value

2:01.7

what this person has to say. You can choose to think about the expectation however you want.

2:07.3

Now this doesn't mean there won't be consequences, because you are always responsible for your actions

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and what you do. If your boss expects you to arrive on time and you are late, then your boss might

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