Got Hope? Navigating Challenging Times with Optimism and Strength

24/02/2021 14 min Episodio 1
Got Hope? Navigating Challenging Times with Optimism and Strength

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Host Gary McGuey, High School Practice Leader for FranklinCovey Education, is back with another insightful panel of teenage guests to tackle a prominent topic that is not only present during adolescence, but throughout life – hope.Hope can prove difficult to define, though the panelists agreed that it has a large impact on your overall well-being. As one guest put it, “it’s almost like hope stirs those emotions – it’s that feeling in your stomach of super-strong faith.”Hope keeps you moving in a positive direction when things aren’t working out as intended or when you start to lose belief that the things you’re working toward will come to fruition.Still, hope isn’t a magic answer to all that ails you. One guest called hope without a plan “something you wish would happen,” adding that hard work and persistence are needed to fuel hope and eventually reach the desired outcome.“Wishes don’t come true unless you put the work into it,” she said. “You have to be proactive in how you’re hoping for something.”In being more intentional and purposeful in hope, you transform it from a word that’s commonly thrown around as a temporary salve into an action and driving force.