"Why Expectations Matter at Your Home Based Small Business!"

Experts agree that managing your expectations can significantly impact your ability to be productive with your at home based business. This is not just a theory, this is based on what happens chemically, in your brain that can help you to be focused and motivated, or that can cause you to lose your focus and reasoning ability. The implication of being able to manage your expectations is therefore critical to your success and your ability to consistently earn extra money from home.

What scientists have found is that "mis-setting" of expectations -- either too high or too low inhibits brain functions and your ability to think clearly which obviously has a profound effect on the degree of success of your work from home company!

Without getting too technical here, science can now measure how your brain reacts depending on external influences. Deep within the brain, specific cells await cues to release chemicals -- called dopamine -- based on the anticipation of a primary reward. It should be noted that unexpected rewards cause MORE dopamine to be released than expected rewards.

Think about that from your perspective: If you were to get an unexpected bonus -- regardless of how big or small, you would get a bigger dopamine hit than if you were expecting a raise and got it.

Once dopamine hits your system, you are able to focus more intently, you have more energy, and you have a more positive, outlook on life in general.

On the other hand, if you are expecting something good, that doesn't happen or you aren't expecting something bad -- that does happen, the dopamine levels in your system drop dramatically. The effect of decreased dopamine levels are dramatic. You can be in a funk for days -- maybe weeks. Your focus dissolves, your energy is drained, and you have a less positive outlook on life in general again, having a negative impact on your top home based business.

Low levels of unmet expectations are something we get all the time -- exasperation and frustrations are attributed to a drop in dopamine levels, which ends up causing lower brain function. In fact, we might say that unmet expectations dumbs us down!

Which, as an aside, is why we act stupid when we're angry or upset! :-)

What this means, is that we must learn to manage our own expectations. Its particularly important in your top home business, because you need to be able to focus clearly and energetically in order to get things done.

The easiest way to manage your expectations is to consciously create and monitor them regularly. Creating expectations is a process that can occur when setting the goals for your at home based business, then breaking those goals into tasks. Each task then creates an achievable expectation. Monitoring those expectations is something you consciously think about each and every day. It takes practice but it's worth it!

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