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Some days

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Some days are a blur, for many, whole weeks, months or even a lifetime.

We’re in another world or just not tuned in.

Often, that is because we believe being almost frantically busy is good.

We have subscribed to the myth that busy and ‘achieving’ things, even if most of them we don’t know why we are doing, equates to success. Ultimately we believe it will make us worthy.

Worthiness and success are not related to achievement.

Busy is often a good way of avoiding something and not dealing with what matters. ‘I have no time for that’.

The key to happiness is to cherish life and the moments that matter, it is to do less, and that means carefully choosing what matters.

Focus only on what matters, what you will remember with real fondness at the end of the journey.

Take your time to enjoy each step of your life.

Expectations

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Disappointment is something that affects us badly. We feel sadness or we beat ourselves for failing to meet our expectations. Or we have disappointment with others when we set expectations on them.

Often when we are disappointed by something, we aim to try even harder with that particular goal or say I need to do more or push more.

It is all to do with managing expectations of ourselves and what we expect of others, of what we are doing ourselves or collectively.

That doesn’t mean to have a negatively low expectation of everything that we do or others. It means expect to do less and do not put unrealistic expectations on things, be prepared to try, readjust and keep adjusting until it gets to where you want. Often having no expectations is very liberating.

Expect less, do less and end up achieving more by removing the draining effects of disappointment with ourselves and others.

Don’t expect everything now.