85 - Mindset Monday: Lower Expectations

Episode 85 of the Mindset Minutes podcast, hosted by Colm O'Reilly, titled "85 - Mindset Monday: Lower Expectations" was published on August 3, 2020 and runs 1 minutes.

August 3, 2020 ·1m · Mindset Minutes

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Summary

Mindset Monday - Lower Expectations Most of the advice in the world is telling you to raise your standards and expectations. And a lot of the time it’s true and helpful. I also love when counterintuitive advice helps us get unstuck and make progress, and I think lowering your expectations is one of those times. A lot of the time we’re stuck because inertia is powerful and very difficult to overcome. So we tell ourselves we need a lot of energy to get going, and it’s energy we don’t have. (Or time, or money, or support.) And we tell ourselves that the first attempt needs to be perfect. If it’s not, we’re just wasting our time. That’s true if it’s something super vital that we need to see return on straight away. But rarely, if ever, is that the case. In fact most of the time it’s more about consistent imperfect iterations that add up to get you where you want to go. We know that nothing will happen unless you take some action (or take some quiet time in the midst of constant activity) so this week in order to make progress lower your expectations of what you want to achieve and just take imperfect action. Then tomorrow take slightly less imperfect action, and keep building momentum. Or you know, keep waiting until you’ve the perfect plan and see how that goes 🤪 www.thementalhealthplan.com https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18248924&appointmentType=11286512

Episode Description

Mindset Monday - Lower Expectations

Most of the advice in the world is telling you to raise your standards and expectations. And a lot of the time it’s true and helpful.

I also love when counterintuitive advice helps us get unstuck and make progress, and I think lowering your expectations is one of those times.

A lot of the time we’re stuck because inertia is powerful and very difficult to overcome. So we tell ourselves we need a lot of energy to get going, and it’s energy we don’t have. (Or time, or money, or support.)

And we tell ourselves that the first attempt needs to be perfect. If it’s not, we’re just wasting our time.

That’s true if it’s something super vital that we need to see return on straight away. But rarely, if ever, is that the case. In fact most of the time it’s more about consistent imperfect iterations that add up to get you where you want to go.

We know that nothing will happen unless you take some action (or take some quiet time in the midst of constant activity) so this week in order to make progress lower your expectations of what you want to achieve and just take imperfect action. Then tomorrow take slightly less imperfect action, and keep building momentum.

Or you know, keep waiting until you’ve the perfect plan and see how that goes 🤪

www.thementalhealthplan.com

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18248924&appointmentType=11286512