Expectations

Expectations

Expectations can cause some of the biggest disappointments in your life.

It doesn’t matter what you are expecting, actuality is unlikely to match expectations.

That’s because humans are notoriously bad at predicting things.

Over the last 65 years, I’ve disappointed a number of people and most of those disappointments were based on what people were expecting.

They were expecting one thing and they got …. well me!

It’s just a fact, we rarely get exactly what we expected.

I know my parents didn’t get exactly what they expected when I was born all of those years ago and surely not as we traveled the years together.

For better or worse, there’s one constant and that’s change.

Change means that we are constantly guessing at what we can expect.

And usually we are wrong.

A lot of disagreements are centered around what we expect. A person expects one thing out of a relationship or agreement and we always deliver something a little different.

I’m not a big fan of disagreement — the process.

I get it, that we disagree. My friends ALL disagree on one point or another.

I just like it when we celebrate what we agree on.

It’s a fault, I know. I know we disagree and debate is necessary to find the best options, but I still want the peace.

So when my friends disagree or I disagree with someone I have the thought in the back of my head …

I wish we hadn’t expected so much.

Don’t get me wrong. I want to set high goals and I want to get there.

But the truth is, the impact is never in getting the goal.

The impact is in the small kind things we do to get there.

Expecting nothing and then getting so much more than you ever imagined well …

That’s joy!

All the best,

Ken McArthur

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About Ken McArthur

Ken McArthur is the founder of ConnectLab.live, an AI relationship-intelligence and warm-intro platform that helps founders who are raising find the funds that fit and the people who can introduce them, and helps fund managers connect with the founders they back. He was recently accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry. He also writes Raise Smarter, a daily newsletter on what's really moving in early-stage fundraising. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact, whether we want to or not, on thousands of people we touch in our day-to-day lives, and he shows that simple things make a HUGE difference. ConnectLab.live grew out of that belief. Connection is the currency of the 21st Century, and the right introduction can change a company's future. Long before ConnectLab, Ken was the popular host of live events that brought together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to build multi-million dollar joint venture relationships. He has managed product launches ranked in the top 400 sites on the Internet and is regularly asked to speak at leading marketing events. He created AffiliateShowcase.com, a pioneering affiliate program search engine and directory. He also founded the MBS Internet Research Center, which conducted the world's largest survey ever attempted on creating and launching successful information products. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from zero to over $100,000 in less than 8 days, a proof of concept documented in Info Product Blueprint. Today he puts that same skill for connecting people and launching ideas to work for founders and the investors who back them.

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