Today I'm talking about a common thing that all of us do where we have expectations of people, sometimes called "a manual”. We want them to think, feel, and act a certain way.

The problem- people aren’t very good at being who we think they should be. Holding onto our "manuals", expecting our kids and others to be who we want them to be, just causes us a lot of unnecessary misery.

Believing someone should be different than they are, feels like love. It feels like we’re just trying to be a good mom (wife, daughter, friend, etc.)  by looking out for them, but what we aren’t seeing is the misery we’re inflicting on ourselves in the process of trying to control and change them.

Join me on the podcast this week as I highlight how we hold onto our joy-sucking manuals, and why letting them go is the key to becoming A Joyful You - happier, healthier, confident, as well as improving all the relationships in your life. 

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What You’ll Learn on this Episode:

• Why having expectations for others might be making you miserable
• What having a “manual” for someone means.
• How we punish ourselves with our manuals.
• Why you need to drop expectations of other people and who you think they should be.
• The lie we tell ourselves around our expectations of other people.

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