Rekindling Hope When Gloom and Despair Fills Us
64 Tips on How to Keep Hope alive and the Requirements for Living with Hope
Having hope is having a feeling — that — our situation is going to change for better and what we are expecting will happen OR that what we are scared of — will not happen.
We get the feeling of hope -when we are weak or when we are amidst crisis.
There are two types of Hope — passive and action-triggering one.
In passive hope — we think of miracles happening without putting enough efforts, perseverance and time — to create the change that we want and need.
Passive-Hope can make us feel better for a short while — and — we will be back to the state of despair if we do not act OR the situation does not change automatically.
It is not possible to switch on and off — The positive action inducing hope — on demand — until — we have practiced through a tough regime — on HOW TO HANDLE UNEXPECTED — like the disaster management teams or the armed forces or the fire fighters and commandos do.
If we have trained ourselves to acquire this skill — Hope would trigger the response of exploring various options, possibilities and alternatives AND then taking actions — whenever we face massive disruption in our life
64 Tips on How to Keep Hope alive and the Requirements for Living with Hope
1. Nurturing our mindset to create trust and faith in yourself — so that you have the ability to take action and face any challenge and difficulty that the life can make you come across.
2. It needs a disciplined mental, emotional and physical regimen
3. We also have to learn to discern between what is within our control and what is not — and then take actions on what we can AND stop bothering about what we can’t
4. We also have to practice the NLP method of reframing — our interpretations of what happened — in powerful resourceful and empowering ways
5. Managing our thoughts, feelings and emotions needs hard work, commitment, patience and practice
6. Hope has to become part of our daily living and like breathing — then only it will become an invaluable source of inspiration, power and anchor — during grilling phases of life
7. For this we need to work on the worst-case scenario — then find how we will solve, overcome and handle these situation — and then keep improving continuously by practicing in real time
8. We have to become a happy and grateful person — but — don’t have to be content with status-quo — and be always on look-out for making improvements
For full read “How to maintain hope in your life when everything is bleak” in Success Unlimited Mantra’s blog section “from the heart of Subhashis”
