Why Such Low Expectations?
by A thought that has been on my mind of why people this day and age have such low expectations of themselves. Always settling to do the easiest things and avoid every hard thing that comes our way.
I’ve been reading a book entitled Do Hard Things written by Alex and Brett Harris. It’s really been triggering my thoughts on why we have such low expectations of ourselves in everything we do. It’s crazy how we can pick and choose when we want to turn our ‘work ethic’ on and off. For example, it’s summer vacation and it’s 6:00 A.M. It’s Monday and you have to go to work. That stinking alarm clock never sounded so bad in the morning. You take ten minutes or so just deciding if you want to get out of bed or not. Once you finally get out of bed, you mope around the house, all tired, putting off getting ready. Your heart has no desire whatsoever to go to work. You don’t feel like messing around with your boss, co-workers, or consumers. You just feel like crawling into bed and sleeping the day away. Don’t we all! But now lets look at it a different way. It’s still 6:00 A.M. on a Monday morning, but instead of going to work, you are getting up to go golfing with your buds! Wow. It’s really easy to get up when the alarm clock sounds this morning!! Or maybe your like me and you already had your golf polo sitting out the night before and the clubs were already in the trunk. Also, maybe you were up and getting ready before the alarm even sounded!!! Why is it so easy for us to get up to go golfing, but it’s so hard to get ourselves ready for our responsible tasks in life?
I’m a 20 year old college student who has been thinking about things like this the last few days. See, when I was growing up, I seemed to have everything really easy. I had lots of things given to me and I never really had to work for much. I had low expectations placed on me. And because of that, I find myself to this day still sometimes doing only enough to just get by. But I don’t like that. I never have. I love when a challenge arises and there are high expectations placed upon me. I love being able to reach into myself and find my potential to handle a certain situation. The difference between myself doing a lot or doing a little is what kind of expectation is placed on me. Give me low expectations, I seem to do just a little. Give me high expectations, be prepared to leave amazed at the result because I’ll work my butt off! I hate low expectations and I wanted to write this to share what I’ve been learning though my experience.
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