Success and happiness in life basically comes down to managing expectations. And you really only have four choices.
If you can overpromise and overdeliver, go for it! That’s the best of the best. But that’s really hard to sustain.
The sweet spot is underpromise and overdeliver. If this is sustained you are constantly sparking magic, but to do so there needs to be a good awareness of the gap between the two.
If you overpromise and underdeliver, it can be heavy on the heart. Sometimes we can’t avoid this outcome, but it’s not something we want to sustain.
And if you underpromise and underdeliver, you need to ask if your heart is really in it.