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72: Revisiting Change

Time and Attention

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Are You Catastrophizing Your Expectations?

Expectations can ruin a lot of the things that we experience. If your expectations are set realistically may be a little too low, and theer what changes surpasses your expectations then you might be pleasantly surprised. But if you have these entirely unrealistic expectations that can completely ruin your experience of something another caniverlic related idea to this is the idea of catastrophizing. So i you're catastrophizing, your expectations are setting you up to be overly stressed. It's interesting the ways we can structure our thought patterns to live a little underneath what reality can deliver to us.

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