I just finished reading Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius. While this blog is not to review the book itself, I just want to say that reading this life story will make you appreciate the vast amount of physical abilities we have that come naturally to us and we too often take for granted. With that being said, I lead to the quote from this book that stuck with me...

"If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will" (p. 106)

Isn't that powerful?! Makes you think - or makes ME think anyway- about how expectations play into achieving and not achieving goals. If you (or someone you care about) does not expect you to finish school, would you? If you never expect to get a promotion, will you ever get it? There are so many possible scenarios that can be used here. Of course there are situations where it may be the opposite: Nobody expects you achieve a goal, so you push to get there to prove everyone wrong. This has definitely been my motivating factor at least once in life. However, more often then not, we achieve goals because we are expected to do so and do not want to create disappointment... and THAT is motivation. You have to know that people are counting on you and supporting you to get there, wherever that is. Powerful.