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Articles about expectations
How To Deal With A Crushing Workload
How To Deal With A Crushing Workload
Workloads and expectations are increasing. It’s not a cliché, it’s a fact. It’s the single biggest (confidential) complaint that I hear when spending time with companies. I was speaking at a conference in Florida, and in the short Q&A at the end of my talk a man stood and said “We are doing more with less. We have fewer people than ever, but our project load continues to increase. However, the quality of our work is not allowed to suffer. What should I do?” On this episode, we share some principles for dealing with a crushing workload. What do you do when you're overwhelmed?
Podcast: Aligning Your Expectations With Reality
Podcast: Aligning Your Expectations With Reality
One of the greatest sources of tension on creative teams is when unspoken expectations are violated. This can lead to misalignment with your clients, with your peers, and even with your own efforts. On today's episode, we'll look at three kinds of unspoken expectations and three ways to prevent them from taking root and disrupting your work.
Podcast: When It’s Never Good Enough
Podcast: When It’s Never Good Enough
Ever feel like you can't possibly please a boss or client? Or, are you ratcheting up the expectations for yourself (or your team) in a way that makes it impossible for you to be satisfied with an outcome? You might be experiencing something called expectation escalation. However, it's not always the boss or client that's to blame. We often do this to ourselves. On today's episode, I share how to mind your baseline.
Podcast: Mind Your Baseline
Podcast: Mind Your Baseline
It's so easy to allow expectations to rise to the point of inevitable disappointment. Make sure you are minding your baseline so that you don't squeeze all of the potential for discovery, surprise, and joy from your life and work.
Mick Jagger And The Uncertainty Of Creative Success
Mick Jagger And The Uncertainty Of Creative Success
Don't believe the lie that success is inevitable. On the inside, where all of the risk is being taken, it often feels like things could fall apart at any moment, and that's precisely how it should be.
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run YOUR race. Execute YOUR plan. Do YOUR work, not someone else's. Don't allow envy, spite, ego, or greed to derail you or cause you to chase a phantom ideal that was never meant for you.
Everything Great Was Once Not
Everything Great Was Once Not
How to prevent comparison from paralyzing your productivity.
AC #117: (reset) Expectations
AC #117: (reset) Expectations
Sometimes our [sub-conscious, unseen] expectations can impose artificial limits on our creative process. In this podcast we're looking at how we need to occasionally reset our expectations of ourselves and our understanding of others' expectations of us in order to...