Let Your Hopes, Not Your Hurts, Shape Your Future
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
What do you hope to gain from the future?
Wouldn’t it be great to make more money to pay off your expenses – to put a little to the side for a rainy day?
or…
How about working your dream job and being able to live the life that makes your passions erupt?
On the surface these two questions may seems pretty similar. Almost like I’m asking you the same thing, but the difference is that the second questions is emphasizing your hopes instead of your hurts.
People almost always translate the hurts that they experience in the past or present into the decisions that they make for the future by using their pain as a reason for changing course. They look for solutions that they think will lesson the hurt instead of discovering what it is that is causing the hurt and what they can do to benefit from the situation and grow.
By translating your hopes into your plans for the future you establish a game-plan. You have a goal in mind and understand that you’ll experience set-backs but these set-backs will serve you well by being the basis by which you learn. You have a clear idea of what it is that you want.
Everyday you should think about what you desire most. Create clear mental images of those desires and give a little of yourself everyday to making sure each and everything you do brings you one step closer to making life everything you ever could have hope for.
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