Hope is incredibly powerful. Hope can keep us alive in desperate situations so we can dream about a future that isn’t so bleak. Without hope, people will just shut down, losing the will to go on. But Hope has a dark side too.

1. THE DARK SIDE OF HOPE & WHAT
TO FOCUS ON INSTEAD
B Y T O D D H E R M A N
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2. PRESERVING
HOPE Hope is incredibly
powerful.
Hope can keep us alive in desperate
situations so we can dream about a future
that isn’t so bleak.
Without hope, people will just shut down,
losing the will to go on.
But Hope has a dark side too.

3. Hope can create a
fantasy world in your
mind where
everything is great already
In order to maintain that fantasy world, people refuse to take
action that will pop the fantasy bubble and introduce reality into
their dreams.
Once you try, once you go out into the real world, your dreams
shatter and you are confronted with effort, work and challenge.

4. HOPE IS A MISTRESS TO
PROCRASTINATION.
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5. INSPIRATION VS. HOPE
Find Inspiration in reality.
Find a person’s story that really gives you
the motivation to go out and do things.

6. THERE'S NOTHING MORE
INSPIRING THAN SEEING,
HEARING OR MEETING THE
PERSON WITH A FEW CLAW
MARKS, DRENCHED HEAD TO
TOE WITH SOME DIRT UNDER
THEIR NAILS
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7. THE POSITIVE POWER OF
NEGATIVE PREPARATION
Like a military operation, you consider all the things that could go wrong and come up with a plan for each.
When you're mentally prepared for the inevitability that things will go
wrong, days will be tough and setbacks are a foregone conclusion... When
you're prepared for the fact that reality is gonna look a lot different than
the pie in the sky vision...
You're not expecting yourself to fail because of this.

8. YOU'RE EXPECTING
YOURSELF TO ADJUST,
MANEUVER AND TAP INTO
NEW RESOURCES TO MAKE
WHATEVER YOUR GOAL IS
A REALITY.
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9. MAKE THE
LEAP Just remember, inside of
that gap of uncertainty is a
version of yourself you'll be
excited to meet.

10. DON'T HOPE. PREPARE, AND MAKE THE LEAP.
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