Expectations

Expectations can both reflect our hopes and our fears. At any given time there are a number of things that we expect to happen.

Imagine a worried mother who always takes her first aid kit with her when she goes to the playground with her kids so as to be prepared if a child gets injured while playing. Now imagine an excited father who always takes his video camera with him when he goes to the same playground with his children.

In both cases the mother and father are trying to accomplish the same thing, namely to take their children to the playground. Their preparations and anticipations of what may happen at the playground, however, are completely different. While the mother’s focus is on potential injury, the father is thinking about the beautiful videotape showing his two children happily playing.

The interesting fact here is that the likelihood that the mother will actually experience one or both of her children getting injured on the playground is much higher than in the father’s case.

The reason for this is that expectations have a tendency to trigger actions reflecting the expectations. If we go through life expecting negative things to happen, chances are that we’ll actually materialize our fears. If, on the other hand, we spend our time being hopeful and seeing great things happen in our life, chances are that our hopes will become a reality.


“We usually get what we anticipate”, Claude M. Bristol


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