Tag: Expectation

  • Stop Trying To Improve Until You’ve Done This

    Stop Trying To Improve Until You’ve Done This

    Nobody starts out ‘good’ at crisis support. At least, nobody in the hundreds I’ve mentored, trained or watched go through the journey. When we’re early in – taking those first tentative steps – the expectations we place on ourselves can really hurt. When I first came through I found it incredibly disheartening if things didn’t…

  • A Formula For When Life Sucks

    A Formula For When Life Sucks

    Subtracting Expectations From Reality Leaves You With Happiness Let’s do math! 85 reality minus 100 expectation equals happiness / disappointment level -15. Expectations were too high! Or reality was too low.. (You can define reality how you like, money, flights, intimacy, feeling understood, validating someone, what’s important to you is up to you.) In other…