Expectations

I was just looking at the baseball box scores and noticed that my favorite team, the team with the second highest payroll in baseball, the Detroit Tigers, has lost again. They came into the season with tremendous expectations and high hopes, no one would have said then that they'd be four games under .500 going into the last 6 weeks of the season.

The Incredible Hulk has been made into two movies, both times with lots of hype, and the second time with expectations that the box office would follow the recently released Iron Man, the results did not come close to expectations, as the second film made less than half as much as Iron Man and nearly the same amount as the first Hulk movie.

Just a couple examples that expectations do not necessarily equal results. So, instead of having this happen to us, we set the bar low so we don't disappoint. We apologize in advance of our actions, to prepare for failure. But, what if we could set the bar and deliver? And what if we gave it our all knowing that in the end, expecations are really worthless, it's results that count.