When you are set out in life expecting outcomes, there are several things that can happen. And no, this has nothing to do with pregnancy.

When you are faced with a dilemma in life, whatever it may be, there are many different ways you can go about the problem. Because of this, depending on how we may react, we may suspect a specific response to our decisions. Here's the thing: we should not do that.

When expecting outcomes, it often leads to disappointments, even if it isn't bad. Just the fact that it did not go the way we had planned it to makes our outlook on the whole situation more negative. We will always say, "if only it would have gone like this," or "well it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Yes, not necessarily bad, but not good either. The negativity associated with expecting an outcome is unhealthy.

This goes along with the same idea I mentioned about not planning a situation. While we should make specific plans that we know may not happen, we shouldn't expect specific responses to the reacts we have towards those situations. Don't "expect the unexpected" because that is basically expecting the one thing we do or don't want, depending on the opposites of the subject in context.

Instead we should expect a response that's reasonable with how we reacted. Nothing specific, just a general idea of what most likely might happen. Keeping ideas more general and less specific can lead one to be more positive and less frustrated when things might not go their way. So yes, expect something, but know what to expect when you're expecting.