Obama on Expectations

The Huffington Post published some Barrack Obama quotes from an interview he gave Men’s Health magazine that will published later this month.

Whether you plan to vote for him or not (or live somewhere else in this wide wide world besides the US), I like this quote on setting expectations and self improvement.

“I always try to make sure that my expectations are higher than those of the people around me…I never want people to feel as if I’ve overpromised to them. I try to explain in a real honest way how difficult some of the changes I’m talking about will be. But I never want the effect to be that I’m not working as hard as I can on their behalf…that I’m not continually trying to improve. I’m actually glad for the high expectations.”