It Won’t Go Smoothly

It’s not the work that you were expecting to be hard, that drains the energy.

It’s the jobs you were expecting to be easy, but which turn out to take twice as long as you thought they would.

Which begs the question…are the pessimists on to something?Should we be lowering our expectations as a matter of course.

I’m not sure. I think we should still aim as high as we think we can possibly reach if everything would run smoothly. Don’t want to sell ourselves short when it comes to the dreaming part.

But at the same time we should give ourselves a break, stop being surprised, factor it in….things won’t run smoothly.

Life teaches us all of that of course, but we aren’t always paying attention. And then we become cynical and stop dreaming. And, or, we let the problems that inevitably occur make us bitter.

Everybody’s got their own path. But we’re all facing a version of that dilemma to work through if we want to have a shot at this.