When you wake up in the morning, you probably have various expectations of how your day is going to go.
You expect that the bagel truck will be outside your apartment ready to serve you your breakfast. You expect the train to take you from your block to the entrance of your work.
You expect that there will be challenges that you will need to face with coworkers and clients, but you also expect that you will be able to handle them.
You expect to come home, have dinner, and eventually go to bed.
These are your expectations.
Life, however, has a way of throwing curve balls when you least expect it.
For all you know, the bagel truck got stuck in traffic and now you don’t pick up breakfast.
The train runs late and now you are late for work.
There is a flood in the office which delays your ability to finish your tasks in a timely matter.
It is too late by the time you get home that you skip dinner and go to bed.
Your expectations were not me and so the change in your daily routine feels like a rock in your shoe that you cannot shake: uncomfortable and irritating, but not life changing or threatening.
What if you went throughout your day hoping that things would go the way you would like?
Would the change in perspective help you manage disappointments if expectations are not met?
Would it make any difference at all?
Is hope the same as expectations?
Join Oleg and Dorothy as they hope to distinguish between expectations and feel free to add your hopes to the comments below.
