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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to make your expectations and needs explicit.

In other words, don't just drop hints.

We've all found ourselves disappointed because someone didn't live up to our expectations.

Only to realize later that the other person had not actually understood our expectations or realized that we needed help.

Whether it's assuming that your team member will let you know in advance if he's not going to meet an important deadline,

or that your partner will send flowers on your anniversary.

We're taking a risk if we have strongly held expectations for someone's behavior, but don't let

the person know about them.

Other people simply cannot read our minds.

And we waste all kinds of time, behaving as though they can.

And then recovering from the disappointment

or dropped balls when it turns out they can't.

The only solution to this is to stop dropping hints.

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