# Chapter 132

“With a bit more imagination they might have been able to leap the bounds of their own expectations” Setterfield

I hear and read regularly that disappointment is the result of unmet expectations. What a fail. That entire configuration needs to be restructured so that disappointment only happens when your expectations are not aligned with the direction you need to be going, not when you fail to reach them. Expectations do not have to be part of the disappointment factors in your life. While I see that they are for many or most, the direction the expectation is pushing you is far more important than the anticipation factor. Change your orientation to these disappointments, these failed anticipated results, because . . .

. . . Expectations are boundaries. They are the boundaries of your future hoped for results. Expectations are your anticipation containers and they are likely limiting what you can conceive in a given situation. Stop doing that! Its preventing you from breaking out of your life two sizes too small. Its limiting what you can reach for, constraining what you can strive for, even defeating your wish to live (or understand!) a life two sizes larger than you are living right now. Expectations are structure in your mind and structure is an inherent “no”.

What we need is more imagination. This is the task that is at the core of my working life. Taking leaders to new peaks and down new paths and letting them see a different view, than the one they had before. This is just another metaphor for imagination. Another way to crack the boundaries of existing expectations. Another way to raise the bar. Another way to scale.

“The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.” Loesje