Hope allows you to be settled in the unsettled moments you face. Sometimes you have to stand on the boat deck during the storm. Hope gives you the sea legs that let you rock with the boat but still stand strong. Just don’t take the opportunity to rock the boat while you’re standing. The storm…
Hope is making the way through intentional actions – those actions taken with determination and courage that only grows up in hope. When you are standing on the firm foundation of promise grown hope then your motivation drives actions that are intentional so you are positioned to live out that promise. You do it because…
Hope opens the way for investing in will. Instead of focusing on want tos or have tos, you are harnessing the power of I WILL. I will do it because I can. I will do it because I’m designed to do it. I will do it because it’s right there. I will. “Hope harnesses the…
Hope vision creates clarity of insight because it sees more than what is there. It’s seeing beyond the walls, the defined matrix of the world, or even your own little box design. Hope vision sees the spring flowers even before the seeds are planted. The clarity of insight happens because hope lights up every corner…
The positive expectations we embrace in our journey create positive energy that is necessary for growth, for BIG DREAMS, and for purpose living. You become all you are designed to be when you have the positive expectations that the promises are real and that you are here to live them out. One of my favorite…
Developing daily gratitudes creates a forward-focusing, positivity-harnessing vision. It will get you through the tough times. It will anchor you in the storms. It will help you find the Way when before there seemed to be no way. Investing daily in gratitude will create an attitude of gratitude – or said differently, it helps you…
Getting beyond want to is the second way to invest in hope for your life. Your want to will lie to you – because sometimes you want to get to the BIG DREAM and your want to doesn’t want to do the thing right in front of you that will get you there. You do…
Speaking into believing means saying the words until you believe the words. When you speak your hope, you not only let the words out of your mouth, but you put those words back into your ears. It reinforces the hope you are growing into believing. And that hope makes the way for creating change that…
Hope endures no matter how tough things are, how bad the storm comes down, or how chaotic life becomes. It’s not always easy but is always simple. We work hard not only to make it complicated but to create an intricate series of reasons or excuses that we can’t or shouldn’t or don’t. We work…
The fourth truth of hope is that it is always Truth based. It’s real, just out of this world because it only happens when visionaries take hold and run with it. Five Elements of Truth Based Hope Grounded in reality – just not of this world Personally known through the Truth Walked out daily in…