When I finished, he told me they were spot on, but they should be considered Standards, not Expectations. But standards are set in concrete, the non-negotiables in life one lives up to. I can have the highest expectations in the world, but if I have low standards, then failure is likely. I have discovered that it is better to have high standards rather than high expectations. I have no idea what my father’s standards were in his life, but I know by the way he treated others that his standards were high.