Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

I'm going to start with a little quote today because I cannot stop thinking about it,

but whenever I say it to people, they're a bit like, hmm,

because I'm like, oh my God, this is such a good quote.

And then they're like, hmm, so I am then going to explain what I mean by it.

But the quote is, expectations are like debt.

Sorry, I just joked.

Well, this has started well, right.

The quote is, expectations are like debt that has to be repaid before you actually enjoy what you're doing.

Now, if that also felt like a bit of an anticlimax for you it requires a little

bit of explaining right and I used to hear people say things like this like set low expectations

and then you're never disappointed and I thought okay a bit of a cop out like just to be like I don't

expect anything and then anything's a bonus and I was like it seems like a bit of a reach but I kind of get it now right and if you think about examples

let's imagine because most people listening to this do let's imagine that you have a fat loss

goal if you lose two pounds in a week but you were expecting to lose four pounds, you're going to be disappointed.

If you lose two pounds in a week, but you were expecting to lose one pound, then you're going

to be pretty happy with your progress. Now, the outcome is the same, but the expectation is

different, right? If you're a coach listening and you're like, oh, I'm going to launch a new program and you expect to get 20 signups, but you only get 10,

you're going to feel like it's a failure and you're going to be annoyed. If you went in with

no expectation and you got 10 signups, then you'd be absolutely buzzing with getting 10 signups.

And if you got a MOT bill and you were expecting

it would be 500 pounds, but it was actually only 300 pounds, you're buzzing, right? You kind of feel

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