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We are going to dive into [How To Love Life's Great Lessons] People expect a lot of you, but what do you expect from yourself?

We have all sorts of people in our lives that have a lot of expectations on us, right? Our family expects us to do things, our kids, our friends, our brothers and sisters, everyone expects things out of us. That’s for sure. Let me ask you: What do you expect out of yourself?

I wanted to share something I reflected all day when my friend told me: “If you want to become more, you need to increase what you expect from yourself each day” and it sparked something in me. 

Something I experienced years ago in Hollywood with this guy who everyone was afraid to approach because it looked mean and scary. I was working on a movie set in Hollywood and there he was. At first glance he was tough enough to scare you, he was bold, short and stocky guy with tattoos on his arms and with mean eyes looking at you. H never cracking a smile.

He was always there, on my path to the set when I would go to do my fitting for the lead actress. He looked to me like a security guy or some sort of that. He was always standing and what struck me about him is that he was flexing his muscle and chewing gum every single time. He was making sure nobody gets near that trailer door where the lead actor was resting. 

Anyway, one day when we both were waiting outside the trailers. And we were so close to each other, and that gave us a reason to start a conversation. He told me the story about his life when he was growing up. I can’t remember all the details his life was about, but he went on to work as a bodyguard for lead actors and that transformed him completely. He talked about how it changed his life from being this HOMELESS KID to being a bodyguard for lead actors, and all of these things, it was just an inspiring story and nothing like what I had assume of him.

Afterward each time I would go to the movie set, I pulled him aside and we were just talking. He had the ability to MOTIVATE me for the rest of the day. One thing he said something very captivating and I never forgot it. He said, “WHERE I grew up FROM… nobody expected much from me, so I didn’t do much.  When I came here,” he’s like, “Everybody expected a lot out of me.” and he said “The reason why I’m so successful at what I do, is that I expect MORE out of myself THAN anyone can IMAGINE .” AND… I went from being just a set security guard to one of the best private bodyguard for lead actors. 

I remember thinking, that’s a great driving force. When my friend earlier today told me “If you want to become more you need to increase what you expect from yourself each day” I revisited that moment when I met to this tough guy on the movie set in Hollywood. 

So my question to you is: What do you expect out of yourself? Think about why you get depressed in life. It’s usually because you expect something out of yourself and you DON’T DO IT,  you don’t deliver. I look at the things in my life that I struggle with which gives me pain, and almost all of them are associated with this; what I expected from myself, and WHAT DID I do. 

Did you ever had the experience when you were a kid, you did something really bad and you were expecting your dad to beat you up. You were preparing for being spanked, and then he came in… and he just looked at you and shook his head and said, “I expected a lot more out of you,” and walked away. You’re like, “Oh, that’s hurt really bad and it went straight into your heart.” That was WAY worse than if he had just beaten me up?  I could have handled that. 

I think that’s a big thing, and I’m curious for you right now, and everyone listening is in different parts of their MLM business. What do you expect out of yourself? Is your beliefs are constantly holding you back from that next level?

I feel like I expect a lot out of myself. I get up early in the morning, I get to work early, I work long days, I go on FB and social media once a day because I removed the apps from my phone and stop scrolling mindlessly. It’s amazing what I get done in that time. BECAUSE if I’m not helping someone, if I don’t bring values to others, if I don’t serve my audience. I expect so much out of myself that I cannot stop, I just keep working. I keep moving forward because I expect it a lot out of myself. Every phase of your life will require a different you, and regardless of where YOU ARE AT the moment you will have to change. Even when you expect a lot of out of yourself, still issues will come up that’s a real thing.

If you’re struggling, it might be because you’re letting yourself off the hook, think about it. Do YOU expect much out of yourself? If you’re not progressing, and not improving your client's lives in the way that YOU WANT.  Ask yourself if you’re not EXPECTING enough out of yourself. Sometimes YOU need to step outside, get some fresh air, and remind YOURSELF of who you are and who you want to be. I woke up this morning excited to get to work because I expect so much, and I want to do so much, I want to help you, I want to serve you, I want to change my audience lives and I cannot do that without wanted more from myself.

Anyway, I just kind of wanted to share that with you today, and hopefully you get some value out of it. Wherever you’re at, the more you expect from yourself the more you’re going to achieve… 

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