Set Expectations and Control Your Life

The Daily Lift

Hello, Welcome to The Daily Lift.

A podcast that gives you the lift you need to have a great day, every day.

We get together every day to lift our spirits to a higher frequency so we can better our lives. So we can create the life we want, for ourselves and for those we care about.

Author Ralph Marston said “Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”

Expectations are powerful. They influence how you deal with your life on a daily basis and your responses to what happens to you. We can use this fact to live better lives if we’re consistent.

I like to say, if you expect nothing from life, that’s exactly what you’ll get. We’ll look deeper into expectations in today’s daily reflection.

And on that note let’s set our expectations for the day.

Now, let’s do our…

Daily Gratitude practice

This is a key step for your day. It will increase the influence of your expectations.

Today's daily reflection

Many people have learned not to have expectations, especially when dealing with other people. They have such a long history of disappointments and failures that they’ve given up on expecting anything at all.

Weekly affirmation

Each week I'll give you an affirmation to use. I'll remind you every day to keep using it. The more you use it, the more effective it will be.

Here's the affirmation for this week

"I have the strength and wisdom I need to handle anything."

Don’t forget your…

Weekly guided meditation

Maybe you don’t like meditation or feel it does nothing for you. How about you try it anyway, just for fun? It’s short. Maybe it’ll help you.

Guided meditation can help effortlessly focus your mind on those things you need to change to improve your life.

Just hit play and follow along the best you can. It can be a wonderful experience if you allow it to be.

The guided meditation for this week is a forgiveness meditation. You can find the link to download the mp3 in the show notes for this episode at thedailylift.org. I hope you enjoy it.

Okay, that's it for today. You can find the transcript for this episode on the site at thedailylift.org

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I really encourage you to apply the material found in this episode to your life each day. Step by step you'll achieve greatness in your life.

I hope you enjoyed your daily lift!

See you tomorrow.