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Life will meet you at your level of Expectation

Life will meet you at your Level of Expectation.

To often people set themselves up for failure. Its crazy how many people walk into FLO and before we even assess them, they are telling us what they wont be able to do. They look at the TRX, FreeForm Board and other great toys and say, "I am never going to use that.". They are so quick to argue for their limitations. In my last presentation at the N.E.T seminar I used a quote from Les Brown and it was, "When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. ".  Start really listening to people and you will begin to realize how many of them quit before they even start. 

How can we combat this? I believe we need to start expecting more out of ourself and others. It's always funny that people tend to do what you expect from them. Ever notice that when you tell a client to do 15 reps of something, they just make it to 15. Then next set tell them to do 12 with the same weight and they can barely get to 12. And then tell them to do 20 for the last set, they will give you a look like "c'mon son", but somehow they make it to 20. Its like magic. What changed? It was what you expected out of them. Treat them as if you have the highest expectations for them and watch how they succeed. This is part of the reason I feel schools in urban areas don't do well in test scores. We expect them to fail, so they live up to it. 

This same concept of expectations should be applied to you in your life. Expect greatness and it will come. Do things that are outside of your comfort zone. Expect to win that radio prize, expect that the person you want is also into you, expect more out of life. Don't aim for what you know you can get, aim for what you really want. You may lose some people in the shuffle and per suit of higher expectations. That is part of the game. Remember it is Your life and it will meet you at your level of expectation. 

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