This is literally me

When you set unreasonable expectations in the first place

I know this is a meme but it’s actually a legitimate way to reach higher goals. If you set your goals too high, you lose motivation trying to reach that peak. By setting “goal markings”, you keep yourself motivated with small victories. It’s actually the same psychological reasoning behind why weight loss is considered such a hard thing; people who weight 300 set their goal at 150, but feel helpless when they’re nowhere near it