Don't demand the world to present you more than it presents you

Along the way we grow up, we unconsciously set up many expectations, with those expectations we build our "selves". We tell ourselves that it will be terrible if those expectations are not met, since it is "terrible", we will feel upset when we anticipate that those expectations will not be met or those expectations are not being met. The most simply and effective way to cure this is to simply give up those expectations, because those expectations are subjectively fabricated and it doesn't fit the reality. Those expectations will be sometimes met and sometimes unmet in reality, and if we demand that those expectations needs to be constantly or always met, we will cause our mood swings, a lot of mood swings. So just give up any subjectively fabricated expectations, accept the world as it is. Don't require the world more than it presents you. 
Is it decadence? No.  The world can only present you what it presents and it can not present you more than what it presents you. It is ridiculous and childish that you demand the world to present you more than it presents you. The world is not your childhood parents. When you were a child, you could always use "demanding" to get what you wanted, because your parents often gave in to satisfy your wants, even your wants were unreasonable. But the world is not your childhood parents, you can not get what you want from it using "demanding". So it is ridiculous to want more from the world than it presents you. If you want more, you need to work your way up to get what you want, in this way, you are demanding the world to give you more, you are working with the world so you can get what you want, it's like that when you help yourself, the world will help you.  You need to know Tao, live with Tao, utilize Tao to realize your goals.

Clear implicit mental standards

We have our goals, and we want to realize our goals, but from the way along our lives, we’ve built up many implicit mental standards which ask us what we can do and what we can not do, mainly those mental standards are to maintain our conceptual self, or our social self. Those implicit mental standards in most cases act as chains and cuffs which greatly inhibit us from realizing our goals. To realize goals, we need to know Tao, but most of the time our attention is consciously or unconsciously invested in our selves, therefore we can not see Tao, because our attention is absorbed by focusing on our selves, on the other hand, we need to utilize Tao to realize our goals, but our mental standards often hinder us from utilizing Tao. So we need to clear the mental standards we’ve built up. We can use two weapons to clear the mental standards, one is “accept”, one is “give up”. We feel good by accepting certain things, and we feel good by giving up certain things, then we will know Tao and we will be able to utilize Tao, and consequently we will achieve our goals.