Tag: optimism

Why bother? Because hope is all about possibility. Hope feeds your energy, creativity, and problem solving skills; it affects your sense of happiness and optimism. Hope recognizes that everyone and everything matters. It makes life worth living. That’s why you should bother. When hope gets damaged, it has a ripple effect. It can knock you out of equilibrium with your world, with your existence. It’s important to regain your balance and reconnect with a hopeful life. How, you ask?

• Take care of your health through good nutrition, sleep, physical activity
• Do a hope audit; know what makes you hopeful and connect with it
• Cultivate hopeful relationships; surround yourself with hopeful people
• Learn to forgive
• Find resilience through meditation, breathing/relaxation exercises
• Look for ways to make hopefulness tangible in your daily life
• Reconnect with nature
• Move through your fears
• Be courageous
• Set tangible goals that help you move beyond barriers
• Remember, in time the things that are pulling you down will pass