Mike Domitrz explains the difference between expectations and standards: lower your expectations to reduce stress and approach situations with curiosity, but keep your standards high so you don't compromise your values. This works in corporate settings, relationships, and everywhere else.
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.
