Hope Lives in Motion EP 296

Welcome to your daily dose of hope.

I'm Phyllis Nichols and I'm glad you're here.

I'm going to talk today about hope and how hope lives in motion, in action.

Sometimes the hardest part when we're facing something difficult is not really the problem

itself.

Sometimes it's just the feeling of being stuck, of being uncertain, not knowing what to

do.

And when we're overwhelmed like that or when we feel uncertain, a lot of times our minds

can just kind of start spinning and playing over the same, you know, worst case scenarios

over and over.

And which isn't really helpful, doesn't really do anything to get us out of this unstuck

place.

So I want to remind you that hope rarely appears when we're standing still, right?

When we're just sitting and spiraling.

Hope shows up when we take action.

And it'll definitely taking action, even a small step will help stop that worst case

scenario thinking that we can, you know, kind of keeps us obsessed and not feeling any

better certainly.

When we take action, it kind of tells our brain like, I'm not powerless here.

I have agency, I have options.

And it also reminds us that our story isn't already written, things aren't already

refinished.

We don't have to solve every single thing today, but we do need to take a step forward.

And maybe that's just doing something like sending an email or doing some more research,

getting some more information.

Maybe it's about reaching out to a friend who's been supportive and getting their perspective

or asking for help from a professional.

Action creates momentum and it creates possibility and it gives us the ability to instead of

focusing on worst case scenarios, it gives us the ability to focus on what could truly

be possible.

So if life feels stuck now and then just understand that hope isn't far away, it's right there

and it's going to meet you when you take even one tiny step forward and help break that

cycle of overwhelm and create momentum.

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