Riffing On Realness™

Expectations vs Agreements (Part 2 to Difficult Conversations Episode)

Episode Summary

Welcome to a continuation of last week’s episode where we take difficult conversations further by exploring the difference between ‘Agreements’ and ‘Expectations’. We dive into how they impact relationships, communication, and our experience within the world around us. They are often the source of difficult conversations and a clear understanding of their nature. Notice how they allow us to navigate talks with more clarity and create stronger outcomes.

Episode Notes

Highlights from this episode include:

-The difference between agreements and expectations

-How one makes us feel over the other

-Taking the ‘personal’ out of it

-Clean objective ‘hygiene’

-Avoiding setting people up for disappointment

-How this partners with compromise vs collaboration

-Why co-creation is in order

-How to know when an expectation is being placed on you

-How we are wired for fear

-Flipping the fear

-Defining the fear…and ‘fear setting’ vs goal setting

-Tim Ferriss ‘Defining Your Fears’ Ted Talk (recommended listening)

-Bypassing the emotions instead of acknowledging  them and how it steals our freedom

-The value of sharing our disappointments

-Giving voice to inner conversations

-Open dialogue leading to deeper connections

-How the culture can split our hearts from our mind

-The perils of compromising our truth for the good opinions of others

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