#561: How To Deal With Unmet Expectations
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Unmet expectations can quietly drain your energy, distort your focus, and damage your relationships. In this episode, we explore a better way to confront and resolve them—before they grow into something bigger.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson and our Rigora Hills, California |
| 0:32.5 | studio, and the topic I want to share with you today is how to deal with unmet expectations. |
| 0:41.0 | It has been said, and if you think about it, there's a lot of validity here that one of the |
| 0:47.2 | biggest causes of anger, you could even say resentment, bitterness, carrying things around that aren't healthy is unmet |
| 0:56.5 | expectations. Either somebody didn't meet your expectations and now you're nursing that and |
| 1:03.1 | rehearsing that, maybe telling other people about it. And it changes the dynamic between you |
| 1:09.8 | and that person. And they may not even know what's going on, |
| 1:13.7 | but it feels differently and you're a little less productive and it may be more awkward for them, |
| 1:18.7 | may make them less productive as well. Or they may not even have picked up on it, but chances are |
| 1:24.1 | they have. Other issue I want to look at is where we let people down. |
| 1:30.7 | And maybe we don't even realize it, but we noticed that we didn't meet their expectations. |
| 1:36.5 | And maybe we don't know that's the issue yet, but we can tell something's different. |
| 1:40.6 | They're shorter with us, don't really have time for us, they're more dismissive. |
| 1:46.0 | Again, that awkwardness that comes when the rhythm we were in with someone isn't there anymore. |
| 1:53.0 | Now, it could be something totally unrelated. |
| 1:55.0 | They could be going through something in their personal life, but that's why we need to learn how to address it to make sure it's nothing |
| 2:02.0 | we did on our end. Okay. And then sometimes you find out that it was. Other times you realize it wasn't, |
| 2:10.3 | but there's something else going on. And then that opens up a different conversation to where |
| 2:14.7 | perhaps you can be helpful moving forward. The point is just |
| 2:18.5 | carrying this around in either case is not good because it becomes a distraction. It can distort your |
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