Bipolar: This Philosophy Can Help You
Published: Mon, 03/31/14
Hi,
How are you doing today?
I hope today is a good day for you.
I have a friend who struggles with bipolar
disorder.
Sometimes he is up, and sometimes he is
down.
He went through a bad stretch a while back.
He was real depressed.
Every time I saw him, it seemed, he just looked
really sad.
Until this one day, it was like he had snapped
out of it!
I had to ask him what happened.
He told me he had been to his therapist.
I asked him, did she give you great advice or what?
Because you sure look different.
He said she taught him about this idea of high hopes
and low expectations.
I'd never heard of this idea, so I asked him to explain
it to me.
He said high hopes and low expectations is exactly
what it sounds like. You can have high hopes but
have low expectations at the same time. And if you
do that, you can handle disappointments much easier.
I've thought about that a lot since then.
I've even applied it to my own life, and it does
work.
I've been able to be more realistic than I was
before.
I look at things differently now.
I even use it in my courses/systems below:
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And it has even helped me to make decisions.
Ok, here's an example.
I had what I thought was a great idea for a new
ad campaign for a new product I wanted to sell
on the website.
I was really excited about it.
But I was going to have to put a lot of money
into this campaign.
So I did a lot of thinking about it first.
And I remembered what my friend had said.
I definitely had high hopes for this product.
So I had high hopes that this ad campaign would
be successful in selling it.
So far so good.
But when I checked my expectations, they were
also very high.
That meant that if the campaign didn't do as well
as I hoped, I would be very disappointed, maybe
even depressed.
So it looked like I needed to lower my expectations.
If I had lower expectations, I would be more
realistic.
That way, the campaign could still do good, but if
it didn't do as good as I hoped, I'd still be ok.
I could settle for that.
So that's the attitude I carried with me into the
ad campaign.
Well, what happened was, the ad campaign did
good. Not great, as I had hoped, but it did good.
So I felt good about it.
I wasn't disappointed, because I had already
figured on it with my high hopes low expectations
philosophy.
But the way I looked at it was, it could have done
great, but only for awhile, and then fizzled out,
and then where would I be with this new product?
No, I'd rather have it turn out the way it did.
You can apply the high hopes low expectations
philosophy to all kinds of areas of your life.
My friend did it and it brought him out of his
bipolar depression.
I used it in my business and it helped me to make
a sound business decision.
This philosophy helps to keep you realistic.
That's the main thing.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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