The Power of Expectations

From my experience, disconnecting from your expectations and embracing the here and now, can decrease stress and help create a more mindful atmosphere. Whether your circumstances are exactly how how you'd like them or not, take a moment to look at things not through a lense of good and bad, but just as things that have happened. However, you should still keep track of your own personal feelings and opinions, because without them you might slip into a rut of mediocrity.

It's good to have that fuel, that drive, those motives, that's what keeps you going when times get tough, that's what gets you started. It riles you up and gives you that burning passion to create, but it shouldn't entirely consume you, because then you start to lose sight of the big picture. We become so focused on our own perspective that we forget how it fits in, the uniqueness and perspective it contributes to the whole. And that's when tribe culture starts developing.

The tribe is a social concept that describes when people with similar thoughts and beliefs band together and turn against people with differing beliefs. It develops when we lose sight of our bigger picture, of our shared humanity that connects us and focuses on our differences, rather than our many similarities. It breeds a culture of conflict and discrimination, judging people based purely off of their differences. Based off stigma, an expectation of a negative trait or behavior, just because of a difference. Just because of our expectations.