Real Talk: Overcoming Negative Expectations | Angry Dad Podcast

In this episode of the Angry Dad Podcast, delves into the significance of managing expectations in life's pursuits. He emphasizes the necessity of setting realistic goals, putting in consistent effort, and avoiding the trap of expecting results without action. Angry Dad candidly shares his personal experiences with overcoming adversity, the importance of self-reliance, and how surrounding oneself with positivity can propel success. The episode is sponsored by Everyday Fit Life and Max Performance Peptides, offering exclusive discounts using the code 'Angry Dad'. Tune in for some no-nonsense motivational advice and practical tips on achieving personal and professional goals. 

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You know, expectations in our lives can really fuck you up.

(02:06):
You know a lot of us have very high expectations
of our lives or what we want, what we want
to accomplish, things that we want to do, places that
we want to be, the way we want to live
our lives. And here's the thing. We all have expectations
of what we want where we're going to, what we
want to get, what we want to do, all these things.
You know, it's good to have high expectations, but one

(02:29):
of the things too, is you have to have realistic expectations,
understand what you're doing and why things are going the
way they're going. A lot of us, you know, we
we expect everything and not putting in an ounce of
fucking work, an ounce of our time, and ounce of
our effort. We just expected expect us to get handed
to all right. A lot of us just wish that

(02:53):
it would just come to us with no fucking effort.
A lot of us just want to to, you know,
fucking sit on her hands, sit on the couch, not
do a goddamn thing, and then everybody owes us everything.
There's a lot of people out there like that, you know,
And a lot of those people are the ones that
are complaining, bitching, moaning that things never happen, things never

(03:15):
go their way, shit never fucking works out. Like I said,
I've definitely lived in that that style of life for
a long fucking time because you know, I had everything
against me, I fucking working my fucking ass off, Nothing's
ever fucking happening. Why woe is me? And why I
expect to live this fucking life. I guess the fuck what.
I had, none of the tools, I had, none of

(03:36):
the lessons. I had, nothing in my life that that
would put me in a position to be where I
wanted to be, you know what I'm saying. And until
I got off my fucking ass, until I started really
putting time and effort into the goals and into the
life that I wanted to live, that's the only time
things fucking changed, you know what I'm saying. Bitching and

(03:57):
moaning and expecting and having expectationations of just being handed shit,
wishing somebody would hand me shit, hoping and praying that
somebody would just fucking reach out and fucking give me
everything I had so I just magically had it, you
know what I'm saying. And having that expectation of that
happening was something that fucking stifled me in the effort

(04:18):
that I put into my fucking life. You know what
I'm saying. I was just hoping and praying and wishing
that something would fucking change, something would fucking happen. When
the fucking lotto, fucking you know, somebody just magically dump
money in my fucking lap or fucking you know, like
poof everything is fucking perfect, and having that and like

(04:41):
holding on to that really stop me in my life
from really changing who the fuck I was and what
the fuck was going on. You know. Eventually I fucking
realized and had an epiphany of like, if I need something,
if I want something, I'm the only one that's gonna
fucking get it. Stop thinking like this, stop being like this,

(05:02):
fucking just go out there and fucking grind it out,
hustle it out, figure it the fuck out, and put
in the fucking work. All Right, I fucking put in
way more time at work. I put in fucking way
more time in the gym. I put way more time
into actually thinking shit out, fucking sitting there thinking, planning, contemplating,

(05:25):
fucking trying to see what I can do to change
my fucking life. And it took a lot of time.
It took a lot of fucking planning. It took a
lot of fucking failures to figure it the fuck out,
to put me in the mindset that I needed to
fucking be in. And once I realized all I gotta
do is just fucking show up. All I have to

(05:48):
do is be present. All I have to do is
understand that this is what it fucking takes to get
my life together. I did that shit, all right. I
had a fucking huge portion of my life where I failed.
I lost my family, I lost my kids, I lost
my place to live. All I had was a box

(06:08):
of clothes, a Bart fucking ticket, and a job I
walked to every fucking day to and from. All Right,
I get up super early in the morning, walk straight
to work, jump on the Bart, walk to work, and
then when I get off a fucking eight twelve hour day,
I'd reverse that and get back fucking home. That's what

(06:28):
I'm fucking saying. Like I said, I really had to
fucking understand how to get myself out of the situation.
I didn't expect anything from anybody. I had a high
expectation of myself of I'm going to succeed. This is
my goal. I want to be financially secure. I want
to fucking be happy. I want to live a life

(06:49):
where I'm not stressing to fuck out living check to
fucking check. And guess what it took time, It took effort.
It took me to fucking get my head out of
my ass and push myself fucking forward. You know you
can either. My story is not fucking exclusive to me.

(07:10):
There are so many people who have rised above and
fucking accomplished, achieved and done better than me in worser
situations than me. All right, I just use myself an example,
because guess what, I'm probably mostly average of what a
lot of fucking men are going through. Heartbreak, divorce, fucking life,

(07:33):
falling apart, not knowing what to do, feeling lost, hoping
and praying and wishing that something or someone would fix
my fucking life. But guess what, that expectation never came
fucking true. I had to do these things. I had
to push myself forward. I had to fucking work. I

(07:55):
had to do all these fucking things in my life
to get me where I needed to fuck and be.
Did I have help, yes, all right, But that help
came in through family support, people believing in me, people
knowing that I can fucking do it. None of them
really fucking was like, oh, here, your life is fucking fixed.

(08:15):
It's like no, keep fucking working, keep fucking pushing, keep
fucking moving. You know, Like I said, a lot of
us have high expectations about how we want to live
and how we want our lives to be. But what
are you doing to put in the fucking effort to
get there? All right, it's it's not pretty, it's not fancy,

(08:39):
but it's the fucking truth. Hard work takes you where
you want to fucking go. Effort takes you where you
want to go. A positive attitude will take you as
far as you want to go. And that's the fucking
most crazy, fucking part. Nobody wants to deal with. Nobody negative.
Nobody wants to be on somebody negative. And when you're

(09:01):
around negativity, it turns you into a negative. It just does,
all right. But once you start fucking putting the positivity
in your life, you start putting the fucking effort, You
start fucking having these realistic expectations. If I do A
and B, I'm going to get C. You know what
I'm saying, Two plus two is fucking four. You fucking

(09:23):
add the shit up, you fucking do, and you get
to where you want to fucking go. It's easy and
fast to fall, but it's hard and slow to get up.
That's just what it is. It absolutely what it is.
Life was easy, everybody would be a fucking millionaire. Everybody

(09:43):
be in shape, everybody'd have a six pack, everybody would
have a perfect picture life. But that's not the fucking case.
That's not what's fucking happening in this fucking world. All Right,
you have to push forward, you have to fucking work hard,
and you have I have to believe in yourself and
what you're gonna fucking do. The expectations that I have

(10:04):
for myself are I hold my standards fucking high. I
expect my family and my friends to understand that I
will always push forward and believe in them, and also too.
The biggest expectation of my life is what I put
in is what I fucking get. I expect that from myself.
That's an expectation of me, all Right. I understand what

(10:29):
it took me to get here, and I understand what's
gonna take to keep me here, to get better, better,
further my fucking life. It takes time, it takes effort,
but it also takes an understanding of having this realistic
expectation of how shit will work out because of me,
not because of anybody fucking else. You know, one of

(10:52):
the things I always talk about is you take care
of yourself, You put yourself forward, you take care of
your beliefs, you take care of what you want to
do in your life, and it will raise you. It
will bring you up to the next fucking level, and
it trickles down to your family and your friends. It

(11:12):
absolutely does, because when you rise, they rise. It's as
easy as that. Once you become more happier, the rest
of your family becomes more happier. Once you become more successful,
the rest of your family will become more successful. Guess
what the reason is is because you're taking care of yourself,
You're fucking psychologically, subconsciously and physically being seen, being watched,

(11:35):
and just having your positive vibe flow through your fucking
family because it is infectious, just like negativity. Negativity is infectious.
If you're surrounded by negativity, if you're surrounded by this
fucking cesspool of life and you let it get to
you and you keep it around you, it will bring
you down. But when you surround yourself with positivity, proper

(11:59):
fucking inner energy and the understanding of what it fucking
takes to fucking be here and to understand it sucks
to cut people off, but also too it's healthy to
cut people off because the proper people around you will
bring you fucking up. Successful people surround themselves with successful
people that there's a fucking reason for it. They don't

(12:20):
hang around fucking people that are negative. They don't hang
around people that fucking that are like, oh, you know,
like this shit's bullshit, fucking life's all fuck. They don't know.
They have no fucking time, they have no fucking energy
for that shit, and neither do I. I want people
to understand that. I want people to see that have
this expectation for yourself, Have this expectation of what you want,

(12:42):
Have this expectation that is based in reality and not
some fucking fairy tale fucking bullshit. All right, it's fun
to imagine, what if. It's fun to imagine, you know,
if this happened. It's fun to imagine if you know,
fucking it rained fucking cupcakes and fucking sprinkles all fucking day.
But that's not the fucking reality. The real fucking reality

(13:06):
is what are you doing today? How shit getting fucking done?
And what shit are you fucking doing to get it
fucking done? Have the goal, have the fucking path that
you want to take, and understand what it takes for
you to get there and get it fucking done and
have the expectation of yourself of what it's gonna take
to get you there. Life is difficult. Life is fucking hard.

(13:30):
You know what I'm saying. Life's a fucking bitch. It
absolutely fucking is. But guess the fuck what. You can
control it. You can understand it, you can work around it,
you can work through it, you can persevere and become
the person you want to fucking become. Because it takes
you to get there. Understand that fucking shit. You know

(13:52):
what I'm saying. I fucking believe in you. I know
you can fucking do it, So get it the fuck done.
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