Do you hope for the best while you plan for the worst? Personally, I prefer this strategy. While I am frequently quite the optimist, I am also beginning to learn how to better embrace my anxiety in order to identify concerns and points to watch out for. This multifaceted strategy allows me to remain hopeful while also preparing for possible problems. I can still use more work with reducing overall worries, but I am hopeful.
Hope for the best.
-Mel Brooks
Expect the worst.
The world’s a stage.
We’re unrehearsed.
An important point that should be clarified early on in this cycle is that hope only serves as a starting point. By itself, hope will not accomplish too much. What you do with it is what matters. Therefore, hope must be directed towards and channeled into effective and meaningful action in order to drive positive change forward and generate lasting results.
We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear.
-Dolly Parton
Hope serves as a solid starting point to stand on. It provides direction for your best next step, even if the result turns out to be different than what you expected. I think that is a beautiful aspect of life that we should learn to better appreciate – hope for whatever you are working towards, yet accept whatever actually happens. Do not be blinded by hope.
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
-Alice Hoffman
Hoping against the present state of things wastes our energy and resources. Accept the present, and hope for your brighter future. By leveraging these two mindsets in tandem, you set yourself up for the best success possible. To briefly push this idea to the highest level, hope for a collective best-case scenario as well. Expand your hopeful ideas and aspirations to encompass all of us whenever possible. Hope should not be selfish.
Learn from yesterday,
-Albert Einstein
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.
To hope is to give yourself to the future.
-Rebecca Solnit
Life will be full of challenges and even disappointments. Can we still learn from all of the moments, and can we still hold onto hope? Will we get knocked down and stay down, or will we continually choose to harness and hone our hope because it is the better mindset to manage and mold? It will not always be the easier decision, but it will be the best one.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think about most, if not all, great accomplishments in the past. How have inventors, pioneers, and visionaries reshaped our future without choosing to be unique and daring beacons of hope? Hope is a vital prerequisite for worthwhile achievements. Without it, how do we dare to go where no one has gone before or do things not yet ever done?
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller
I consider myself to be a rather hopeful person. It is how I remain bright and optimistic amidst so many struggles and so much strife. I still have dark and down moments at times, so I hope to improve my ability to better engage with hope more meaningfully moving forward as a result of this cycle. At this point in time, how hopeful are you?
Maybe it is wise. Maybe it is dumb. Time will tell.