Hope isn’t something that’s just some airy-fairy concept; it is a psychological need to believe that we can endure. A psychological need to believe that we can not only endure but that we can succeed and thrive and we can have our way in the world, so that we can accomplish our dreams, make influence and make our own difference. Have hope.
The power plant doesn’t “have” energy. It transforms and generates energy. At the same level, we don’t “have” hope. We transform the energy around us and generate hope. We don’t “have” happiness; we generate happiness. Similarly, we don’t “have” sadness or fatigue. We don’t “have” those feelings that so many people think are negative that just land on them. We are, in our own actions, our own thoughts and interpretations—the very thoughts that we’re feeding our psyche—those very things are generating an emotion. And hope is something that is generated by us.
When it feels like it is gone, it becomes a to-do list for us to generate it once more, just like when your phone is dying you plug it in to charge it up. Well, when your hope is dying, it’s time to generate and charge it up again. It’s the same thing with happiness and aliveness and enthusiasm. Those are things when they’re going down you have to get focused and plug back into your passions, to your dreams, to tomorrow to charge yourself back up again.
Take these things to mind because the days can get dark, but you deserve to have your dreams. When you have full hope you’re more confident and willing to go for it or willing to try. You deserve it. Your dreams deserve it.
- Keep Perspective
- Remember Your Strength
- Make a Plan
- Stay Persistent
- Be Patient
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to Sustain Hope