A man wakes up in the morning and goes to his place of work, works and at the end of the day he feels fulfilled because he has achieved his goal for the day. At the end of the day, he gets paid his salary and the cycle continues for the rest of the year. At the end of the year he make $60,000. Then we have another man who is an entrepreneur, wakes up and go to his working desk and start working, at the end of the day he did a lot of activities with no result, but he doesn’t feel fulfilled because he didn’t achieve his goal. He finds himself spending from his savings to sustain himself like paying the bills. This goes on and on for months, he starts getting depressed because he had goals and visions of how he planned his life would be. Unfortunately his goals are not working out the way he planned it, he starts feeling sad and bad about his life.
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Close to the ending of the year he finally had his big break, achieved his goals and made $100k. Though his excitement will depend on how much expectations he had, if he had higher expectations, $200k will not feel worth it to him because he will feel like he worked harder than why he achieved and he has to reimburse his savings that he has been surviving from through the past months. Even if after replacing his savings, and he made more money than the man who had a 9-5 job, he will never feel satisfied because of his expectations. Meanwhile the 9-5 worker is grateful for the year because he achieved his goals, worked all through the year, got his salary and he is happy because he didn’t have expectations and knew exactly what he was getting.
This happens to most of us when we are expecting, expectations is the first step of disappointment but how can we achieve anything without expecting? It’s a tough psychological feature to have as a human being who is trying to achieve their goals. But we have to learn how to control our expectations. When it comes to money and getting it, we always invest all our emotions into because money gives us the best form of life achievements.