70. How to Never Be Disappointed: Expect Nothing, Appreciate Everything
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Disappointments in life arise when the outcome of a situation doesn’t match our expectations. We often forget that this is all part of the process. Detours, obstacles, and setbacks are important opportunities to learn. We can’t experience fulfillment without them! How do we reconcile the discrepancy between what could have been and what is, and what others expect of us and what we expect of ourselves. Tune in as Monica and Michael discuss how to get comfortable with disappointment so we can find fulfillment in the process.
“My true consciousness about my life is that the whole of it is all blessed. The clarity of consciousness is that my life is a whole, and that whole includes the blessings and it includes the disappointments.” – Michael Berg
Further Readings:
Harvard Business Review, “Dealing with Disappointment” by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
https://hbr.org/2018/08/dealing-with-disappointment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Be clear and vocal ahead of time so people can manage their own expectations of you. It's not your job to not disappoint anybody because you're going to. |
| 0:17.5 | Some of the most important blessings in our lives will come from what we learn from the |
| 0:22.3 | disappointments that we experience. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 70. |
| 0:31.8 | 70. |
| 0:32.4 | That's a big number. |
| 0:33.4 | Yep. |
| 0:34.3 | Moving on out. |
| 0:35.0 | Very excited to be spending this 35 minutes with you. |
| 0:38.3 | How many minutes? |
| 0:39.3 | 35 or so. |
| 0:40.3 | Wrong. |
| 0:41.3 | How long it'll be? |
| 0:42.3 | What's the topic today? |
| 0:44.3 | So, I don't want to disappoint you. |
| 0:46.3 | What is the topic? |
| 0:49.3 | It's about disappointment. |
| 0:51.3 | But if you let me introduce this properly. |
| 0:53.3 | Actually, before the introduction. Properly. |
| 0:55.0 | You know about the guy who was going to a seminar on disappointment? |
| 0:58.0 | And he got that. |
| 0:59.0 | It was canceled. |
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