This is Mental Fitness Fridays. 

What happens when the unexpected happens? Is it time to try to change reality? 

How do you handle it when it happens? Attaining excellence doesn’t happen without high expectations. 

Values mean nothing without them. 

You can't abandon both to protect yourself. Expectations can be a trap. You need them to have standards. No games are ever the same. 

Unexpected is a fact.  Acceptance - we don’t view it that way.  Even though the unexpected comes every day. 

Why do we love March Madness? 

Come backs.

Chokes.

Upsets.

Not Blowouts - those are boring like a flat tire with no pressure. We don't do acceptance well.  Why? The emotions, the expectation of emotional perfection AND our response to it. 

The unexpected didn’t sink the Soviets in 1980. Expectations and the U.S. did. The night before they celebrated a gold medal of a Russian figure skater. They drank. Beat Herb's team bad two weeks earlier. Pulled the best goalie in the world after 1 and failed to pull him at the end. Reactions not responses.

Acceptance's biggest obstacle-expectation of total control. It's a set up. Everything’s all our fault- including the emotions. Are you going to respond, problem solve, or change something you can’t? 

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