Expectations

"If you can manage to keep expecting of yourself nothing more than that you'll spend a couple of hours a day or more if it's possible, but the two hours anyway--if you can teach yourself to allow only this kind of expectation into realm of effort where you live, you will get a lot more done, and the discouragements will tend to be less debilitating, since all you expected was time with it. It's when you let those OTHER expectations in that you head toward the silence of having given up."

— Richard Bausch