Addressing Unmet Expectations: Stoicess & Professor Weekly Touch-Base.

Stoicess' Secret

The boss has known for a month you’ve got a get-away planned for this weekend. It’s midday Friday and you’re trying to finish up that final report due before leaving at 5pm today. Once you’re “out of here” it’s relaxation and freedom for the weekend at your favorite getaway place oceanside. As you’re typing your heart out on the computer, you get that pesky Zoom ring indicating your boss wants to talk NOW! So, you reluctantly answer the Zoom call and learn that a major shift occurred in your project, and you’ll need to add another section to the report titled, “Next Steps”. You tell the boss you can include a few bullets to address the request, however, the boss says she needs a thoroughly vetted chapter (yes, CHAPTER!) addressing Next Steps and the deadline for the report has been extended to 8am Monday morning to give you enough time to work on the additional chapter over the weekend. On ending the call, your heart sinks – you trusted your boss to honor your get-away time. And now you don’t know what to do next.

We spend a lot of time “thinking about” our expectations. However, we don’t spend much time “evaluating” our expectations – whether they are realistic based on the circumstances (including the people) we are dealing with currently. So, as we want things to work out based on what is in “our head”, disappointment usually awaits around the corner.

This webinar addresses how four Bible characters redirected their expectations to make life better. They each started out looking to the world to meet their expectations, but ultimately found a much better path.