Many people don't realize this, but the mind has for more control over your abilities then your actual body. Sure, there are the occasions where you have physical boundaries, but there are many a time when it's all right there, in your mind. The one I hear most often is "I can't do math." As soon as you say "can't" you've already made your chances terribly low on being able to do something. Sure, it's not as easy as saying "I can", but that's the first step.
If you tell yourself "I can do it!" You're more then halfway to reaching the goal, being able to do whatever it happens to be. As soon as you've got the expectation that you can do it, you'll have more then enough of a chance, now you just have to do the work.
It happens a lot in sports and music. As soon as a coach, or a director, expresses an expectation of any sort, the group will end up expecting that of themselves. You know what that means? A sudden interest in working to become the expectation.
This works both ways. Low expecations causes complacency and very little improvement in the group. The best coaches and directors expect a lot, but even more, the best people expects even more then that.
Too few say "The goal is perfection, the minimum is excellence." It's something that isn't focused on enough either. I think tomorrow I'm going to do a bit of work on the whiteboard, and see what the Jazz Band does.
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