Mindful Mondays-#282 The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast

I Always Wake Up Hopeful

Maybe you’re saying hope’s nice, but it ain’t going to pay my bills…hope has never been there when I needed it. It’s just a waste of time.  I am not talking about a small hope, a fleeting wish in hopes that things might be ok. I am talking about an eternal faith and a belief that things will always be better when we focus more efficiently.

It may seem small, or not that big of a deal, but if you wake up not looking forward to your day, not having a hope that there will be great things in it…then you are starting a snowball rolling down a hill. And snow, will pick up more of what it is, so if it’s negative thoughts it picks up more negative thoughts. It rolls down a hill and that snowball gets bigger, it becomes easier to gravitate towards more negative thoughts, and even bigger negative thoughts. And after time it actually becomes natural to think and feel this way.

I created an acronym for hope. Do you know what HOPE stands for?

Hearing

Only

Positive

Expectations

Ok maybe hearing isn’t as good as the word seeing but hope starts with an H not an S… people would get confused if I kept saying I have a Sope (and that is sope not soap)… or would it sound differently… like having an accent on the E as if it was in French…as it might sound like SOPaaaay, or SopEEEE… I didn’t take French so hopefully my accent did it justice.

But anyways, when we’re seeing, hearing, or working to experience ONLY POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS…guess what. More positive things happen. Now people will say the key to life is not to expect anything. First of all what human being has no expectations? Even the wisest guru has expectations…he expects to find calm in his mediation, he expects to find answers sometime during his life, and he expects to have no expectations. It’s a nice thought and I get what they’re saying—that we shouldn’t be so attached to outcome, as we can get so determined on getting that specific thing and when something else happens we’re broken instead.

So instead of expecting one exact thing…let us expect something…let us expect a wide range of possibilities and being open to all out comes. Because even when something bad happens something good can come from it. You may not be able to see it in the moment, but the hardest times have been our greatest times because they are the most diligent teachers. Let us expect to do something more with our lives…not to prove something to someone else, but to prove something to ourselves, to live as if our lives had meaning in every moment, and to know that if we seek out purpose with so much force that we‘ll know the difference between a life lived and a life in idle.

So I challenge you to change your morning ritual from just waking up and doing the things you feel you have to do…and instead adding a big cup of hope into your morning. That will be the best caffeine you will ever take in.

Today’s Personal Commitment:
What’s the first thing you look at in the morning besides your alarm clock? Is it your phone? Is it your bathroom mirror, is it the window to look outside?  Whatever you look at first find a sticky note and write something on it to the likes of “Let’s Start Off With Great Hopes Today” or maybe “Hope Changes Everything.” Write something that resonates with you on focusing on more hope in your morning. Make sure to put that post it note in that same spot for the next week before you go to bed and see how your mornings change, and see how your day changes… I hope it will begin a new habit of creating a better day.

I Always Wake Up Hopeful

 

 

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

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