Quotes About Expectations

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. Even

thousands of people is that most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest.

Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do?

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest. On

most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved.

Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.

The number of coulds, shoulds, might-want-tos, and ought-tos they generate in their minds are way out beyond what they have recorded anywhere else. Many

I won't ask for enything mor complicated today as I don't wish to further disapoynt myself.

Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica

don't know. I've found that people in power can be incredibly insulated and therefore unrealistic about what they can accomplish.

So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can't remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.

Should statements based on the premise you are all-powerful assume that, like God, you are omnipotent and have the ability to control yourself and other people so as to achieve each and every goal. You

Should Statements. You criticize yourself or other people with shoulds, shouldn'ts, musts, ought tos, and have tos. There are several types of should statements:

Self-Directed Shouldslead to feelings of guilt and inferiority when we don't live up to our self-imposed standards ("I shouldn't have screwed up!").

Other-Directed Shoulds lead to feelings of anger and frustration when others don't meet our expectations ("He shouldn't feel that way" or "She shouldn't have said that!"). Other-directed shoulds cause conflicts with others, such as marital problems, arguments, and even violence and war.

World-Directed Shoulds lead to frustration and anger when the world doesn't meet our expectations. For example, I sometimes tell myself that this or that software program shouldn't be so dang complicated and hard to learn!

Hidden Shoulds are not expressed explicitly with terms like should, ought, or must, but they're implied by your negative thoughts and feelings. For example, if you berate yourself whenever you make a mistake, you're essentially telling yourself that you should be perfect and should never goof up.

Never base your plans on what a woman says she wants to do, unless she is in the full flow of love when she says it. And then, expect her to change her mind at any moment when her feelings change.

STOP HOPING FOR A COMPLETION OF ANYTHING IN LIFE

man must love his father and yet be free of his father's expectations and criticisms in order to be a free man.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact...