Mike DomitrzPresident, Author, and Speaker on Respect, The Center for Respect, Inc. · Author & Speaker on Respect for Schools, Corporations, & the Military since 1990 (has reached

Lower your expectations #centerforrespect #mikedomitrz #standards #expectations #stressfree

18 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker advises that people should lower their expectations while keeping their personal standards high. By lowering expectations, individuals approach situations with curiosity and reduce the pressure to achieve a specific outcome, which in turn lessens stress. Maintaining strong standards ensures that one does not compromise on core values or settle for less than what they truly value. The speaker emphasizes that this approach is applicable across various areas of life—including corporate environments, personal relationships, and everyday situations—offering a universal strategy for stress reduction without sacrificing personal integrity.

Lower your expectations, not your standards. If you lower your expectations, you go into things with curiosity because you're not expecting an outcome of a certain situation. But by keeping your standards strong, you also don't make choices that forgive what you value or forget what you value or lower what you value. So you lower the expectations, take the stress off, but you keep your standards for who you are. By the way, this is true in corporate, this is true in relationships, this is true in everything. It'll free you from stress, a lot less stress.