How do I avoid disappointment, if I have lot of expectations for myself?

Always give room to yourself for mistakes. After all you are only human. The idea is to make room for the mistakes and make room on working on the mistakes to make it right.

The best way to tackle big goals or lots of goals is a little at a time. Someone once said how do you eat an elephant, one bite at a time. I prefer my elephant with a good barbeque sauce. Set milestones, and achieve those milestones on your way to your larger goals. Also it is a good idea to reflect once in a while on what you have done. I find looking back on everything I have done a few times a year is very pleasing and helps me keep what I have accomplished in mind. Lastly, if you are constantly concerned about achievement, remember to go easy on yourself and treat yourself well.

This can be challenging but we have to remember that we are all humans that we aren't always going to get things correct though we want to be the best that we can. Our biggest enemies sometimes are ourselves and that is hard to deal with but if you remember that you are human and take a step back and breathe things will get better

The best way is to try to set proper expectations and avoid perfectionism. There's no way to be absolutely perfect at everything, and the key to avoiding being disappointed is to realize that your best varies from day to day, and that you'll make mistakes and that's okay. If the expectations are more realistic, but still high, you stand a better chance of feeling happy with your efforts.

When you realize you are about to commit to something that might end up with you being disappointed in yourself, take a step back to reflect. Ask yourself whether your expectations are in line with your own values, needs and who you are as a person. Or are they simply to please others.

Stop having expectations for yourself! Accept yourself exactly the way you are. Disappointment is deeply rooted in expectations and desire and the habit to consider ourselves "not good enough". We are disappointed when we don't accept failure or success. Let's stop using the wrong words like "failure" which leads us to judge ourselves too harshly, and unable to achieve high goals and gratify the expectations others have for ourselves. Our purpose isn't to realize somebody else's dreams.

It's difficult when you hold yourself up to expectations to break through them and often they're built off context. For example based off other people's progress: I need to write as many songs as her, if xe's getting good grades I should too. Setting up expectations this way, comparing your path to others, is harmful to your self esteem if you're overworking yourself and not getting results. The reason for this is because we can never truly put ourselves in other people's shoes; other people's experiences may be so vastly different we literally can't be like them or we don't have to be like them. Let's look at two scenarios. Let's say you're not doing so well in math but Reina is at the level you expect yourself to be, you may be dissapointed but what you don't see is that Reina has the money to pay for a private tutor whilst you don't. Or, in science June gets the high grades you want because you always have the top grades, but what you don't know is that June wants to study neuroscience whilst you want to be an artist, your priorities are different which explains why June is working really hard for good grades. We need to stop comparing our progress to others when setting expectations and work on understanding our needs instead of giving into pressure. when setting goals for yourself you should prioritise what you care about most, not what you think others would like from you.