It’s been said time and again that “hope is NOT a strategy,” and while I agree that holding on idly and wishing things would get better without taking action to build your business, I do believe that the proposition of hope can add a profound affect on you and your business.
In fact, our recent present-elect, Barack Obama won the ticket using a strategy of hope. So what does that look like? And how can this apply to your business?
First off, let’s look at the architecture of success.
Success is a funny thing. It’s not predictable in the ways we’d like it. It’s not a cake whose recipe you can follow - and “voila!” - success is made. You can’t just follow the prescription of someone else and expect to see the same result. Of course we’d all like it to be that simple, but no, success is a whole other animal.
True success - the kind that lives both in your bank account, as well as in a full heart (as well as the kind that finally elects an African American to the highest seat of our land) - requires you to change and become someone bigger, brighter, more divinely aligned. To manifest the potential within you and receive the success you long for, you must be willing to become your “Higher Self.” - The Higher Self that acts out of wisdom and hope, and not out of fear and pain.
Here’s how a Strategy of Hope works:
- You come to a challenge in business - be it a seeming lack of customers, lack of cash flow, or lack of opportunity - and you ask yourself, “How am I going to overcome this challenge?”
- Next, you have a choice. The choice you have to make is this: Where am I going to look for answers?” Well, the old self, the lower-case self, starts searching for answers, and generally the search begins by looking to others. The lower-case self turns to books, experts, and programs that offer advice on how to overcome the current problem they face. But the Higher Self looks elsewhere. The Higher Self, for every challenge, looks within for inner wisdom and divine guidance. Only the rare few have the faith to look within. Those who take this path take the first step on a profound journey of true success. Let’s see what happens next for those rare few…
- Now it’s time to be open and receive. Should you choose to consult inner wisdom, now is the time to ask a clear question and await a wise response. Journal. Meditate. Walk in nature. Dance. Whatever connects you to your soul. And just see what comes. I promise, if you’re listening it will come.
- Now it’s time to act. And this is where the true test comes in. It’s the rare few who even consider consulting inner wisdom. But is the truly exceptional few, who actually take that wisdom and brazenly, courageously, and sometimes illogically — follow through on what wisdom tells you to do.
While it sounds simple (and it is), it requires the ultimate presence of HOPE. This strategy requires you to believe that you and your wisdom are plenty. It requires you to take leaps into the unknown. It requires you to believe, even if only for a moment, in yourself.
It doesn’t mean you won’t be scared. It doesn’t mean there’ll be no doubt. No, not at all. In fact, when you start to listen to the wisdom in your heart, it will lead you in places you’ve never been, and it will ask you to stretch and grow in ways you might never have considered. But hope gives you the light you need to stand in fear and doubt. Hope makes it possible for you to have fear, but do it anyway.
Hope is essential for your true success.
When you make every choice in your business this way, you infuse your business with hope. Hope becomes your strategy. It becomes your direction. Hope is the candle that illuminates you path to success.
Take time today to consult your inner wisdom. Ask it for guidance. And then, have the sheer audacity to faithfully do whatever it tells you. Live from the hopeful knowing that you have all the answers.
If you’d like support hearing what your wisdom is saying, go to www.WisdomSession.com, and find out how you can know exactly what’s next in your strategy of hope.
