{"id":23437,"date":"2018-12-11T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/?p=23437"},"modified":"2018-12-10T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:02:40","slug":"trade-your-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/trade-your-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Your Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Trade Your Expectations<\/strong><\/em> &#8212;\u00a0one of Tony Robbins many quotes.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at our lives, there\u2019s often an expectation of how things should go.<\/p>\n<p>We want to be in shape, and we have expectations around that process.<\/p>\n<p>We want financial abundance, and we have expectations around how it should happen and where it should come from.<\/p>\n<p>When our expectations aren\u2019t met, we experience disappointment, doubt, feelings of failure, or perceptions of unfairness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23438\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grateful.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>But what if you trade your expectations for appreciation?<\/strong> Appreciate the fact that you are able to exercise, that you have a wonderful family or great friends, or that you\u2019re resourceful enough to eventually reach your outcome.<\/p>\n<p>When you set expectations about how something should go, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. This isn\u2019t to say you shouldn\u2019t set goals but rather to be flexible in how you achieve them.<\/p>\n<p>If you can trade your expectations for appreciation, your whole world will change. You\u2019ll see the positive instead of the negative in situations. You\u2019ll experience more love and success. You\u2019ll have more financial abundance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can create the life you dream of living, but it starts here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally printed on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.movewellfit.com\/category\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Move Well Fitness blog<\/a>. Reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Maurice D. Williams is a personal trainer and owner of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.movewellfit.com\/\">Move Well Fitness<\/a>\u00a0in Bethesda, MD. With almost two decades\u00a0in the industry, he\u2019s worked with a wide range of clients, including those with health challenges like diabetes, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, hypertension, coronary artery disease, lower back pain, pulmonary issues, and pregnancy. Maurice is also a\u00a0fitness educator with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.movewellfitacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Move Well Fit Academy<\/a>\u00a0and NASM.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Your Expectations &#8212;\u00a0one of Tony Robbins many quotes. When we look at our lives, there\u2019s often an expectation of how things should go. We want to be in shape, and we have expectations around that process. We want financial abundance, and we have expectations around how it should happen and where it should come from. When our expectations aren\u2019t met, we experience disappointment, doubt, feelings of failure, or perceptions of unfairness. But what if you trade your expectations for appreciation? Appreciate the fact that you are able to exercise, that you have a wonderful family or great friends, or that you\u2019re resourceful enough to eventually reach your outcome. When you set expectations about how something should go, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. This isn\u2019t to say you shouldn\u2019t set goals but rather to be flexible in how you achieve them. If you can trade your expectations for appreciation, your whole world will change. You\u2019ll see the positive instead of the negative in situations. You\u2019ll experience more love and success. You\u2019ll have more financial abundance. You can create the life you dream of living, but it starts here. Originally printed on\u00a0Move Well Fitness blog. Reprinted with permission. Maurice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":23438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-23437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-healthy-aging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}