How we show up for one thing - -resembles how we show up for everything.
We carry our beliefs and attitudes everywhere with us. If we are looking for trouble, we find trouble. If we expect a conversation to go bad, it usually goes bad. If we enter with an air of exploration....we explore. If we are focused on incompetence -- we find incompetence.
Basically, we are just trying to prove our selves right. By doing so, we get the ego boost to say: a-ha! I was right...this is so lame...so amazing...so beneath me. Fill in the blank.
What we expect to get out of a situation usually comes true. The question is -- why do you have so many expectations? How do you carry those expectations in to various situations? How does having expecations actually cause disappointment?
If you are constantly disappointed, how are your showing up? If you are skeptical, do you focus on the things that aren't measuring up?
It is so easy to default to focusing on the negative...why things won't work, how you wish they were different, how other people annoy you...the list can go on.
What if you showed up with no expectations and just experienced the experience. No judging if it is good or bad. No ranking on where it falls. I mean, really letting go of expectations.
Where is one area you could let go of expectations --- and truly be an observer without judgment? It could change how you show up for everything....
Let's get the conversation started -- share the one situation you are willing to have a different outcome.
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I think that would be the way I show up for everything. Every situation for me has the power to be different simply as you say "dependent on how I choose to show up." For example, if I show up with total openness to hear a conversation with the only expectation to be to gain something, anything, in that moment, then I will. If I show up in an ego driven state then It is likely that the only thing I will gain is frustration!
Posted by: karen | January 08, 2012 at 09:26 AM