Great insight from John Maxwell:
All forward progress (anything that ever happens in your life and future comes from fresh vision).
All fresh vision comes from hope (discouraged people don’t dream).
Hope thrives when you focus on elevating these seven essential life practices, or hope factors.
The Seven:
- Recharge your batteries. Nobody does well running on empty.
- Raise your expectations. You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you expect.
- Refocus on the future. It’s time to throw away your rear view mirror. No one goes forward well when they are looking back.
- Play to your strengths. Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
- Refuse to go it alone. Never underestimate the power of support. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto.
- Replace burnout with balance. Burning the candle at both ends isn’t as bright as you think.
- Play great defense. Avoid hope killers. Comparing myself to others. Being a perfectionist. Worry about what others think. Fear, fear of failing, fear of uncertainty, fear of conflict, fear of change, etc. Impatience.