Live Free
Exceed Your Highest Expectations
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4.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The bestselling author returns with his biggest book yet in which he teaches us the secret to living a happier life: get rid of as many expectations as possible—of ourselves, our future, our relationships, our career and our family.
Expectations are the secret software, running on the hardware of our minds, controlling our emotions, decisions, and actions. How?
Think about your life. How much of the sadness you feel derives from what you think should have happened—than with what actually happened?
Think about your career. How much of the discontent you feel comes from your belief about where you’d be at this point—than with the progress you’ve actually made?
Think about your relationships. How much of your dissatisfaction with friends, family, significant others, or spouses has to do with your unspoken presumptions—than with the people themselves?
Having so many expectations is distorting your perspective, decreasing your happiness and disrupting your joy.
You can live a life of true freedom, greater peace and less stress: release as many expectations as possible.
This, DeVon Franklin argues, is the secret to a better life now.
In a culture obsessed with more, Live Free is a bold counterintuitive book that can start a cultural revolution, Franklin contends.
Everyone struggles with unnecessary expectations. But once you learn to let go of them, you can set the stage for the life you’ve always wanted.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Franklin (The Wait), a spiritual coach and film producer, delivers an insightful motivational guide to living a happier, more fulfilling life by evaluating and understanding one's expectations. He opens by addressing personal assumptions to show readers how damaging unrealistic and unfitting demands of oneself can be and how to redirect one's focus for greater success: "You should choose only those expectations that bring you joy. Release any expectations that cause you pain or discomfort." He then delves into evaluating courage, faith, and disappointment within the context of cultural expectations, arguing one has the ability to change the world through living out one's values and sharing hope with others. Turning to relationships, Franklin suggests the healthiest of them are approached through self-awareness and communication rather than social, romantic, or familial expectations. Finally, goal setting, commitment to process instead of results, and communication are recommended to foster career satisfaction and positive productivity in the workplace. Franklin's certainty in his methods is effusive and convincing: "Once you do the work of setting your expectations properly, you set the stage for the life you always believed you could have." Any self-help reader feeling overwhelmed will welcome these practical strategies.
