Staring at a bullet hole won't make it any closer to down zero...

[daves_not_here]

I've been thinking about the difference between EXPECTATIONS and OUTCOMES...

Expectations drive you towards a goal and are never static.

Striving for a goal is positive. Improve on present performance, this creates forward motion towards goal.

Getting hung up on outcomes like past performance keeps you in the same place.

Avoiding the mistakes or recreating the successes from the past is futile and never ending. There will always be more opportunities to screw up and new mistakes to overcome. The effort is infinite, there is no reachable goal.

“Staring at a bullet hole won’t make it closer to down zero”…

When I hear that voice in my head "not again!" this tells me that I've tripped up on an outcome. That's when I know I need to let go.

It's simply letting go but it is difficult. I think it's natural to go back forth between being motivated by expectations and tripping up on how we just did.

• How do you get untripped?
  
• What do you look for to check if you're tripping on outcomes?
  
• What did you do that really helped?
  

DNH

P.S. This post was motivated by the book The Trance of Scarcity Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life

Edited June 1, 2012 by daves_not_here