36. The Entrapment of Expectations
Insource
Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
So much of our suffering in life comes from people not behaving the way that we want them to. People do things and we get upset and blame them. But, you know by now that its never the thing that causes your pain, its your thoughts about them.
In todays episode we take some listener questions regarding expectations we have for others, and how we can manage them to give ourselves peace. We can’t control others, but, if we work really hard, we can control how we react to them.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of them come from not necessarily what other people did, but our expectations that we have on other people that they didn't meet, right? |
| 0:11.0 | We have a manual for how people in our life should behave, but we don't give them the |
| 0:15.6 | manual and even if we did, we can't control that they would follow and abide by the manual, right? And then |
| 0:21.2 | when they don't behave that way we get upset and we say it's because of you and the way that you are acting and you know by now that people doing things can't cause us to feel anything. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the thought that we have about it. Oh, well, oh, well, welcome back to the in source podcast my name's Ashley and I'll be your |
| 0:56.7 | host for the next I don't know 30 minutes we'll see how long I get droning on about. I'm feeling amped. I am feeling hyped. This |
| 1:09.7 | week has been incredible emotionally for me. You know I'm on this Candida Cleanse, whatever, this |
| 1:18.3 | anti-Candida diet, so I have started feeling energized again. |
| 1:23.7 | I've started feeling motivated. |
| 1:25.9 | I haven't had like a bluesy or brain foggy day |
| 1:29.7 | in a couple of weeks now, and that feels really good. I also have a couple of projects |
| 1:36.3 | right now that I'm really passionate about and excited about my retreat sold out so I'm |
| 1:42.3 | now getting into the implementation phase of that. |
| 1:45.0 | I've had some really incredible clients. My daughter is starting kindergarten. |
| 1:51.0 | It just feels like, you know, great. The mojo is flowing. So today I wanted to talk to you |
| 2:00.8 | about expectations that we have on others. |
| 2:04.8 | I think a lot of our unrest, unhappiness, annoyance, I don't know, all of those things. |
| 2:16.2 | A lot of them come from, not necessarily |
| 2:19.6 | what other people did, but our expectations that we have on other people |
| 2:25.2 | that they didn't meet, right? |
| 2:27.6 | And in the Life Coach School, |
| 2:29.2 | Brooke calls this the manual. |
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