F**k Your Expectations

Take a look at your life, how much of it has gone to your plan and expectations? Maybe some of it, maybe none of it, but our plans and expectations never work out the way we think they're going to.

The only time in my life where things have gone to plan and met my expectations precisely is when I was depressed, laying in bed all day, doing absolutely fucking nothing with my life. That's because to get 'nothing' all you have to do is 'nothing' and it works out perfectly. Good for you, life went to plan!

Allow me to introduce the reason that you can fuck off all your expectations. Me.

Do you really think this fucking idiot would be running a business?

At the 2022 client retreat, I spoke about having an intention instead of a plan. Don't get me wrong: plans, goals, and structure are all super important. But as you evolve, they will always adapt to your evolution.

If something goes wrong in a plan, you lose your shit because it's no longer perfect. Guess what? I'm not perfect, you're not perfect. Are you going to get mad and give up on yourself just because you're not perfect? Of course not.

My expectations as a kid:
Have a two-story house, a wife, 2 kids, and a basketball court by the time I was 20.

My expectations as a 20-year-old:
Be the ultimate core strength specialist in Australia, have an 8-pack, get featured in Mens' Health magazine, rent a house with mates and play PlayStation with them every day.

My expectations as a 23-year-old:
I'll make $1,000 per week, get off my anti-depressants, and maybe a few months from now my man boobs won't jiggle when I go up the stairs. Beth's going to leave me as soon as she realizes I don't have anything to offer.

My expectations as a 25-year-old:
Study 'The Walking Dead' & 'The Last of Us' just in case. Set up a post-apocalyptic self-sustaining house at Beth's mum's.

My expectations as a 28-year-old:
I'm going to be happy, aren't I?

Whenever you expect something to go a particular way, you'll always end up disappointed, because life doesn't work in accordance to your plans.

Who are you to think you know best? You've made mistakes, again, and again, and again, and yet you're still out here trying to come up with the perfect plan of how things 'should' be?

It's time to let go of the idea that things have to go a particular way just because you said, or think, or believe that they should.

"Your greatest ability is adaptability"

I never expected to be running a multi-6-figure international health & mindset coaching business.

I was fully expecting to be gone by the time I was 21, yet here we are.

Things may not ever happen in the way that you expected them to, but they will always turn out better than you expected them to.

It all starts with you letting go of your expectations and, regardless of how scary it seems, you just need to take the next step.