The force of hope is a potent one that has the power to brighten our lives and bring happiness. No matter how isolated or stuck in your business or life you may feel, it is so very important to hold on to hope and allow it to influence the decisions you make. It is a key ingredient in helping you to live the life you want to live, and in this week’s episode, McKay explores the propensity to hope, demonstrating just how powerful it can be even in the bleakest of situations.

Trapped in a sinking cave for two weeks, 12 young boys and their coach held onto the hope that they would survive without food and sufficient air. This moving story acts as our opener in this episode as McKay correlates it to situations we face in life. The propensity to hope is having a behavior or pattern that results in a habit of holding on to hope. Today, Mckay discusses what hope encompasses and how it can be defined, and also delves into how to find hope when all seems lost. The episode comes to a close with McKay encouraging us to always choose hope because when we let hope make our decisions, we discover a better and happier way of living.

The Finer Details of This Episode:

-   Having hope in a bleak situation- the story of the Wild Boars of Thailand

-   Understanding what propensity means

-   Hope in Pandora’s box

-   What does hope encompass?

-   How to stop thinking about the ‘nevers’

-   How do you find hope when you are down and discouraged?

-   A story of hope told in a painting

-   The choice of hope

-   The benefits of holding on to hope

-   Ways to acquire the trait of being hopeful

-   Hope as a force multiplier

Quotes:

“We all get buried, stuck from time to time, whether by our own poor judgment or by factors completely beyond our control.”

“We had each other and we had hope.”

“We all face storms and darkness and are lost in isolation from time to time. Sometimes we lose, fail, regress and it's in those times that we're unsure whether we can, in fact, do what we're being asked to do.”

“Hope is a passion for what is possible. When things around you say give up, hope always remains.”

“The definition of propensity is an established pattern, behavior, or an attraction to a thing.”

“Are you a person of hope? What's your propensity?”

“When we have hope, we have more than we think.”

“Don't give in to your depravations, live up to your expectations.”

“You weren't placed here to peek into your future, but to open the door wide and walk through with confidence.”

“Hope is the belief that circumstances will get better. It's not a wish for things to get better, it's the actual belief, the knowledge that it will happen.”

“Remember, you can't make someone else's choices, and you shouldn't let them make yours.”

Show Links:

Open Your Eyes with McKay Christensen