Comments on: The Anatomy of a Failure: My Unreasonable Expectations http://www.helenaritchie.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-failure-my-unreasonable-expectations Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:41:49 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Learning Self-Discipline is Hard Work | Finding Lena http://www.helenaritchie.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-failure-my-unreasonable-expectations/comment-page-1#comment-200 Learning Self-Discipline is Hard Work | Finding Lena Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:10:38 +0000 http://www.helenaritchie.com/blog/?p=159#comment-200 [...] accomplish everything I wanted for a whole year in just 4 months, but hey I’m the queen of unrealistic goals. And I’m firmly subscribed to the theory of go big, or go [...] [...] accomplish everything I wanted for a whole year in just 4 months, but hey I’m the queen of unrealistic goals. And I’m firmly subscribed to the theory of go big, or go [...]

]]> By: Mike http://www.helenaritchie.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-failure-my-unreasonable-expectations/comment-page-1#comment-157 Mike Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:24:57 +0000 http://www.helenaritchie.com/blog/?p=159#comment-157 I just found your site thru Zen Habits. Looking forward to hitting the archives. Anyways, that quote you pulled out is something I learned earlier this year. For me, the expectations or outcome can be set at first but becomes adjusted by a system of trial and error or an ongoing learning and adapting process which may see me, in the end, reach a different objective then what was set in the outcome. But, if I paid attention during the process I find that where I do end up feels more 'correct' then where I was aiming in the first place. Did that make sense? :) I just found your site thru Zen Habits. Looking forward to hitting the archives.

Anyways, that quote you pulled out is something I learned earlier this year. For me, the expectations or outcome can be set at first but becomes adjusted by a system of trial and error or an ongoing learning and adapting process which may see me, in the end, reach a different objective then what was set in the outcome. But, if I paid attention during the process I find that where I do end up feels more ‘correct’ then where I was aiming in the first place. Did that make sense? :)

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