It’s hard to change our expectations when most of our past experiences can be logically explained by the simple cause and effect rules of the physical realm. But if you think harder about your whole life, you can probably remember incidents where some other law appeared to be working.
Have you ever had a tooth hurt like crazy and then have the pain completely disappear after you decided to find a new dentist?
Do you remember all those times when your computer went haywire until you shut it down, did something else, and then came back to find it had fixed itself?
And what about that time (or times) when you had a “near miss” car (or plane) accident where you really should have been dead? 
It’s so easy to dismiss and forget about these important incidents in our lives because they didn’t make sense at the time. So even though the outcome was positive, we purge the memory from our brains. If we can remember some of these incidents, how many others have we forgotten? When things don’t fit into our predetermined structures of understanding, we are quick to consign them to the garbage can.
Once we realize that there are really two sets of laws working simultaneously side by side in our world, we can not only begin to understand these happenings, but start to anticipate more. If these kinds of things could happen in the past, then they can certainly happen again. Maybe my computer’s hard drive really is shot, but maybe not. Maybe it’s just trying to tell me to take a break.
Instead of dwelling on the force, and cause and effect necessary for change in the physical realm, think instead about the way things happen in the energy realm, that is, with intention and synchronicity. You set the intention and the universe takes care of the synchronicity.
But even intention can be limiting if it is too detailed and circumscribed. Be clear about the essence and then let the details go. In fact, the best expectations are no specific expectations at all. That way we are open to all potentials and possibilities. If we expect the unexpected we allow the universe to work for us, to select wonderful events and outcomes that we might never even dream of.
In this way we enlarge and expand the possibilities and potentials available to us. We are no longer caught in the limiting web of the physical, but can engage as well with the energetic dimension and all its magic, richness and possibility.
When we are open to all possibilities, who knows what can happen?
For more on energy and energy reality, see my book “It’s All About Energy: Adventures in Expanded Reality”, available on Amazon, at local bookstores and on my website: wwwtransformationalexpansion.com