A new definition hope begins with hard work

HOPE—

H is for HARD WORK

HOPE IS — one of the strongest  forces on the planet and in the universe.  However, as I explained in  the post  just before this…. there is a lot packed into this thing we call hope.  

Hard Work

Optimisim

Persistence &

Experimentation

Well this  entry  is about the first of  these….. hard work.

To begin with….why  Hard Work I’m  not going to assume what is hard for one person is hard for another…. physical…cognitive….emotional etc…  however in order  for  us to hope I am assuming  someone is wanting something either to change or  not to change .  

Hard work means that an extra effort will be needed to  build momentum or maintain inertia.   

This means that  the status quo in terms of effort is not enough.  It means that some actions are going to  be needed.  You can hope to have cake alol day  long…but if you don’t  make one, buy one, go to a party where they are  having it… the hope  to have it  is a waste of your personal energy.  

So most  people  would agree that something has to be done  to make hopes come true…but why  “hard”  work?  Mostly because you have already done all the easy work and nothing  has filled the void that  you are hoping  to fill…. so some “harder” work is  probably  in order.  ISince I don’t  know what you are hoping for….I can choose  one of many paths here to draw examples from…. of course I’ll  take the road less traveled.  

I’ll give two examples of  hope and hard work.  I am a confirmed  Learn-aholic.  I mean when there’s something to learn about and I’m interested in it I  get almost addicted to learning about it and then I move to something else  and treat it the same way.  However in some of the things I have  hoped for in the past……I forgot about the learning part and focused  more on the wanting  part I wanted something  badly enough but didn’t do the learning  part and  I also didn’t do the hardest thing of all (in my opinion) —I didn’t figure out if this thing I was hoping for was  something I wanted…or something I needed.  Asking  yourself that question  is hard…and sometimes the  hardest part is the  knowing  the answer and knowing that your  hope  is fleeting because  you are the  one  who wants something and doesn’t need it and others around  you don’t  want or need it either.  

Okay  back to the other  hard  thing about hard work… is that you are going to have to cover  new ground.   I will talk about  that in further  posts… but if going  new places to determine different  options isn’t  your cup of tea then  any work  you do to make your  hope come true is going to be  just a little (I”M kidding—a hell of a  lot)  more difficult.  

So step one in  making hopes  into reality is hard work.  

Now  I’ll give you  another example and see how this hits you.

Imagine  you are in a foreign land and you  are under a dictatorship  or a tzar, or king or some sort of ruler.   You  would rather  have  more choices and freedom because the king pretty much dictates what happens with the resources and who produces  what and gets to live where they get to live.  Suppose  you decide that  wont  work for you and decide well I’m going to get a bunch of us  together and change  this….  and suppose due to a whole bunch of  pride, hard work, and other local  forces  you overthrow the  king.  Now that’s great right—-???except  now there are all the questions the king used to  answer.  What do we  do with these resources?  How and where do  we build roads and bridges?>  How many of our children are going to get to o school?  

Well answering  these questions is hard work and  then one more question  happens—-who is going to pay for all the things?  

Well a couple hundred  years ago a bunch of us did that right  here  in the United States and we—state by state - and then federally devised a system of taxes to pay for our wishes or  our hopes.  Now we still have some problems with  deciding  if these are things we want or need sometimes and  have some pretty interesting  discussions about who has the  best/or right opinions on things…. but  being able to have taxes instead of  battling decisions out with weapons  is  a strangely hopeful thing.  Is it easy to govern  ourselves this way….hell no …but is it a hopeful way…it can be…as long as we  remember it does now and will always  require hard work.

Tomorrow we  wil take a look at optimism… 

For today…get to work and keep your  hopes alive.