It's Wednesday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day.

Part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Dr. John Deloney.

All right, today's question comes from Amanda in Georgia.

Amanda says, I find myself struggling with placing expectations on people and outcomes and always being let down.

What would be the best way to stop placing expectations onto situations that you have no control over?

That's a good question, Dave.

You manage a thousand people.

You've got expectations both individually and economically and for your whole business.

How do you manage this?

Donald Miller wrote,

there's our friend that writes the marketing books and does such a great job,

has a great joke.

He says,

studies have shown that the Danish are the happiest people because they have the lowest

expectations you joke man but I remember an interview with somebody I think she was

Danish and they asked her what would advice would you give to Americans to help them be happier

and she said lower your expectations yeah the secret to happiness is low expectations

that's what i say every day when i play golf so i'm not going to get upset about golf i'm going to

learn how to play it i just started two years ago i suck yes and the secret to happiness is low

expectations and it is kind of a joke but the problem is and you can speak to this

therapeutically more than i can the problem is, and you can speak to this therapeutically more than I can, the problem is when we expect imperfect people to be perfect.

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