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Letting Go of Expectations
How Defining Yourself Limits Your Growth
When you define yourself, as most people do based on their career or other life choices, then you limit yourself and the possible opportunities you have for greatness.
If you say that you’re a writer, athlete, accountant, parent, etc., when you meet other people they automatically and instantly put expectations on you. This is by no means their fault, we are programmed by society to have expectations about someone if they tell us “who they are”, and a lot of people equate “who they are” with what they do on a day to day basis in their life.
If you say that you’re a musician for example, people will put together a story about you in their mind of how they think you live your life based on their understanding and perception of what a musician is. Most of the time they will remember you as “the musician they met at the grocery store” or their “musician friend”. They will have a definition of you in their mind and might even expect you to act in a certain way, creating a perception of you based on that one aspect of who you are.
But that’s it: it’s only one aspect of who you are.
And this is only one perception of who (or what) you are.
