Future Me Letter

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Do you have hope?  

It's OK if your answer is "No" because you are not the only one. In fact, there is very little hope in our nation these days because the institutions which were meant to help us hope have failed us. Hope used to be infrastructural, but now it isn't. We are left to manufacture it privately and most of us can't. 

Here is a great metaphor to understand where we are. Have you ever heard of amblyopia? This is procedure that eye doctors use to help strengthen a lazy eye. You don't fix a lazy eye by exercising it gently. The doctor patches the good eye and forces the weak one to work. Hope and imagination are our lazy eye. The strong eye has been doing all of the seeing. 

“With the wrong metaphor, we are deluded; with no metaphor, we are blind”— Jonathan Haidt.

The stories that you are telling yourself right now are the realities that you actually become. You can't escape from yourself. At best you can numb yourself in the present. 

Or..................

You could step into your future right now and used this opportunity to learn how to create hope any time you want to activate it......for the rest or your life!!!

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Hope = Goals + Agency + Pathways

Hope has three parts: Goals + Agency + Pathways. (Which forms an easy to remember acronym: GAP.)

First, we have Goals. When we feel most hopeful, we’re in pursuit of a clear goal of the future that’s better than the present. The Goal is self-concordant. It’s an authentic desire—something we really want to create in our lives—not merely something we feel like we “should” have or are “supposed to” want in life. When we don’t have a goal that feels authentically inspiring, our hope drops through the floor. But when our goals light us up, we’re filled with energy to move towards them.

Second, there’s Agency. Which means we believe we have the ability to influence making that future vision a reality. We feel a sense of internal power. And we embrace how the actions we take can contribute to reaching our Goal. When we don’t feel much agency, we feel stuck, and fall into hopelessness. But when our agency is high, we know we have what it takes to reach our goals.

And third, we’ve got Pathways. Which is all about optionality—knowing that there are many different routes we can take to reach our goals. When it feels like there’s only one path we can take to reach a goal, it feels like we’re walking a tightrope. One wrong move and we’re toast. But when we know there are countless paths we can take to reach our destination, it’s easy as a Sunday drive. Doesn’t matter if there’s some road construction along the way, because there are plenty of other streets we can take to get there.

Pretty cool, huh?

Three variables: Goals + Agency + Pathways.

Now that we know them, let’s explore a little more about how we can understand our hope levels. And use that understanding to boost our hope to new heights.