Have you ever noticed how you get precisely what you expect?
If you’re a gym goer, here’s an example you might relate to. You need to do 10 repetitions of an exercise. You pick the weight up; “Oof, that’s heavy”. You say to yourself “Hmm… well, if I get to 8 that’ll still be good”
What number do you get to and simply can’t push any more?
8.
I realised this internal mechanism one day when I mis-read my workout tracker and picked up a heavier weight than I was supposed to… but I still completed the number of repetitions for the exercise I was supposed to be doing.
I had accidentally increased the weight I was able to lift. I had thought it was my physical body preventing me from lifting more, but in that case it was psychological.
Just because I expected to be able to do it, I could.
It’s also said that you’ll use all the time you give yourself to complete a task. If you set a ten year goal, you’ll likely take the whole ten years to get there.
Set the same goal for one year and you move a little different.
It’s worth questioning and sometimes changing our expectations to match the results we want.
