There’s no doubt that 2020 has been a stressful year for a lot of people. But do you find yourself wishing and hoping it would just end so that you can move onto 2021? Whether it’s personally, in business, or both, many people hope that life will be better tomorrow than today. But, ironically, that’s not the best strategy for actually making tomorrow better. So what’s the key to hope? That’s what Caitlin Frauton, our Director of Marketing, and I talk about in this week’s podcast. We talk about why hope is often used as an avoidance strategy and the powerful alternative you can do instead.
In this episode, you will learn about:
- Why it’s essential to be hopeful but also have hope with lightness.
- The problem of hope when you use it at a much deeper level.
- The difference between hope and having a clear vision.
- Our definition of self-inquiry, and how it is a perfect strategy to avoid clinging to hope.
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Timestamps
[1:16] Hope is something that you should take lightly and avoid having attachment with hope, as it can become a strategy of avoiding reality in your life.
[5:22] When we put all our energy into hope and less into living in the moment, we miss the direct experience of the lessons in the present.
[7:12] Hope can be destructive when it is a protective measure that leads to destroying our ego and self-image with the notion that we are not okay now, right as we are.
[15:37] Personal attachment to hope denies you personal satisfaction. When you have hope for something, you seek personal gain that hinders you from enjoying the satisfaction coming from it.
[17:58] A vision should be clear on its strategies and plans, whereas hope is attaching to a future event that you have no control over.
[26:45] Self-inquiry is necessary for spiritual growth and should be our first step to actually solving our problem instead of responding from our emotions. When we sit with our emotions and don’t try to “hope” our way out of them, they flow through us much easier and prevent us from being more blocked and out of the present moment. We can play more in work and life, where we are still engaged but less attached to a certain outcome.
