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Hope for the future maybe all we have this year.
As 2020 wraps up is there hope for the future? I have hope. Lots of it!
I’m trying to make 2021 my best year ever. I thought 2020 was going to be one of the best years ever but turned into a building year for me. New job, new career, new industry, a complete and utter change. And I like it.
Hope is a great gift. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. It’s hard to get anywhere without hope for the future. How’s your hope? Do you have any?
2020 has kicked all of us in the ass. And the complete truth is we won’t know how badly it screwed us, our country, and the world’s economy for years. We have to have hope the future will be better. Can you imagine living like we have this year for the rest of your life? Me neither.
I’m moving forward with hope. I’m starting a 75 Hard challenge today. I’m making my life better one way or another. I know that I can make myself better no matter what happens in the world. And no matter what happens in the world I will make my situation better.
I have hope in myself and the people around me, my family, and my friends. Whoever becomes president of the United States won’t make a giant difference in my life. Honestly, if my hobby wasn’t shooting and self-defense firearms I wouldn’t even bother voting… it makes that little difference in my life. Because I will win in life no matter who becomes president.
You need the same attitude. You get an attitude of winning with hope in yourself that grows into hope for the future. Hope is simply a belief that things will get better. If things will only get worst in life, why are we living?
You can find your hope anywhere. Look at the people that love you, do they need you? Do you provide anything for them? If not… why not! Give them something of value. Everyone is worth something. Find that something in you and give it to those around you and you will find your hope for the future.
If you don’t know what that “something” is you have; try a bunch of things until you find something you like, are good at, and can give away. Now get out there and get after it.
Like everything else in life finding hope for the future takes action. You have to do something. Hope will not find you sitting in your room hiding from the world. Get out there and do something. Go for a walk, meet some people, call someone, do some work for your job. With a little work, you will find your hope for the future.
Now go get something done!
Ben Branam