WOTA #159 - What to Expect With Expectations

Expectations can be a major block for us all in life. They can get in the way of the creative process, stop us from stepping into our true potential, and eliminate our openness to other unforeseen possibilities. So let's dive in on how to deal with them better.

First of all, make a commitment to never make a decision out of fear, because if you truly have something to fear your response to it will be automatic.

The fear response is something is built into you as a survival mechanism designed to inform you to run, hide, freeze or fight. This response is a temporary one and it can be an immediate solution to a direct threat. That is all.

Keep in mind, fear overrides our conscious awareness to be rational, thoughtful or mindful until we are safe to do so. There is no value in being fearful without a direct threat that is immediate and present in the moment you are in. Future fear is not real, what you fear in the future is just the idea of fear.

Most of the fear we have does not really exist in reality, it only exists as an idea in our minds. A "what if" that is merely imagined. When you expect fear you exist in "the idea" of fear and you will needlessly suffer because of it.

Most of the time we are actually safe, but we can get in "the idea" of fear and irrationally undermine ourselves. Our expectations can be linked very closely to what might go wrong, or what we think might happen if things do not go right.

Expectations take their roots in fear. The opposite of this is openness, flexibility, adaptability and having the willingness to change plans on the fly when things don't go as expected. Join us as we go down a rabbit hole of finding our creative freedom outside of what is expected or planned for.

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