Relentlessly lowering expectations

"Relentlessly lowering expectations can work in the short run (hello George Costanza) but it’s hardly a strategy worthy of you and your next 10,000 days at work."

I didn't know who George Costanza was until I looked him up. I'm still not certain how he fits here, but he was in Mr. Godin's quote, so I left him there.

We have a problem with lower expectations. "You can't judge me, that's just the way I am!"

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.” Ben Shapiro

And that's truth. My reality may not be the same as someone else, but that isn't 'truth' per se. Where I live and work is my reality. What has happened or is happening to me is my reality.

The reality around us has shifted—who do you see yourself as?

In years gone by people emphasized honesty and integrity, on setting a good example for those who followed.

There was more thought to what a movie taught.

Like the meme says, the reason Hollywood keeps producing the movies it does is because the consumer keeps buying their product.

What are young people learning? What are any of us learning?

I love the vintage styles of years gone by. If I had the gumption (yes, it's come down to that) I would love to sew and wear some of these styles. They are classy and make the wearer look classy. I remember when holey jeans first came into vogue.

My mother-in-law and I worked to keep my kids clothes patched so they didn't have holey jeans, but we couldn't always keep up. A customer buying vegetables one day said, "I don't really care for that style."

Wouldn't you know it, one of the boys had a pair of holey blue jeans on. That was the first I knew about 'the style', and that has been thirty years ago.

In my humble opinion it is time the style swung back to something more wholesome.

Truth is, we've become lazy. It's easier to throw on any old thing rather than to take time to look nice—because in reality holes in your clothes doesn't look nice.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 "All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10) Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.