Hope - an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. Wow, how much do you like that? I think it is just plane awesome. We should live with this definition folded up in our pocket and brought with us everywhere we go. It is powerful. Alas, there are some who think that hope is not a good “strategy” that it is too passive. To that I state, all of the members of the THPL community know that our mindset is the difference maker (and hope is part of that). Mindset effectively changes outcomes. Not passively, but actively. The optimistic mind serves each of us directly, more powerfully, than we realize and it affects others around us as well. When we are optimistic, when we have hope, when we are positive – then others will follow suit, it is hard not to have hope when others around you do. So, grab onto some hope, enjoy the feeling, spread it everywhere you go and drop a note to someone telling them of how amazing life is when hope is integral to it.

Loving life, with Hope at the center of it!