“HOP”PING into Hope
So the last few days have covered—
H—-Hard work
O—— Optimism and now
P——Persistence
If we just stopped here on Easter the acronym would be “hop” and somehow the universe.made that work out for another one of our “legendary” holiday characters. So in honor of this—before I launch into persistence—a few. Fun facts about said. Bunny are in order.
It is said that the Easter Bunny was. A German tradition that first crossed over into the United States in the 1700s with the oldest reports of stories. About the bunny ranging back to the 1680s in Germany. Seriously, I believe the holiday is rumored to reflect some rite of Spring but I can’t help but think after. The first years of using real eggs some mafia dentists gathered together at Big Dinos and said let’s bring in candy to make some green on the side. But of course there was some disagreement among the five major syndicates so they had to parlay for some time when they came up with a solution. Kids and parents wouldn’t like going to the dentist so much...but if we got the “tooth fairy” consp[iracy going we could buy off the kids a for some pocket change.
Okay ...it may not have happened exactly like that, however. Here are some things that the data show to be true.
Americans spend about 1.9 Billion on Easter Candy each. Year. Over. 70% of this cash is spent on chocolate. In that category, about. 90 million chocolate bunnies are sold and while we can’t agree on much in our country a whopping 76% of citizens agree that the proper way to eat a bunny is ears first.
While it has not been studied scientifically, green shredded “Easter Grass”.is now replacing Tinsel as the number one holiday substance you can still find in your furniture or vacuum far into the Summer.
Well it’s time to take the leap (or at least a small hop) from that fun to PERSISTENCE as the third component of “HOPE.”
Hard work is a critical. Part of hope otherwise all you have is a wish. Optimism means creating and believing in options so that choices guide the emotions and actions you choose. Not there is “persistence.”
In the context of hope persistence is a concerted effort towards changing. A state or achieving an experience. At the end of this post there is a link that has been featured a couple of times and needs to be clicked if you haven’t done so. It’s a story about John and his father Tom who are dedicated to the intention of completing the Boston Marathon. You see John is now a “cancer survivor” and if he had not persisted after his treatments, there is no way he would be preparing to run and raising. Money for a good. Cause as a result. John does all the running, however because.Tpom and John. Understand hard work and optimism (the belief in maximizing. Options)they chose to continue training for this marathon in spite of some significant barriers including uncertain health and the COVID situation. I like to think persistence as moving toward something incrementally while stubbornness (often confused with persistence) is a refusal to change due to weanting the status quo or more often the fear of. Change. To persist is to claw forward while to be.stubborn is to hold on or even reach backwards to remain comfortable or in power/control. Persistence is an active action that you can practice in lots of ways. For example you can shoot free throws until you get better. You can practice a musical instrument unti you get. Faster. You can bake desserts until people are clammbering for them (remember that even Betty Crocker. Burns a cake now and then).
If persistence. Doesn’t get. You there well the answer is. Coming in the next blog. You can persist and if you are wondering if things will ever change it might be time to move to the k”E” stage again.
However, I have persisted in sharing my ideas enough for one fine Easter.
Have an eggs-Ellen’s Day.
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