What is Hope

Hey, there. I'm Barbara, and I am one of the certified life coaches here at Cadre. And today I want to talk to you about hope. But I want to start with a really basic question of, what is hope? I'm sure we all have an idea. We all know what hope is. But I want to go just a little bit beyond the surface of that. So if you were to look up the definition in a dictionary, which nobody uses these days. So, if you googled the definition of hope, you would find a physical feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen.

And I think that we all understand that hope is something that we need to keep going to move us forward in life. Hope fills us with a promise that things will be okay at their due time. In the Bible, we hear that hope is an anchor for the soul. And at times, it's the only thing we have to keep us going to get us through another day. There may have been a time in your life where you held onto hope with every fiber of your being, and that's the only thing that got you through to the next day. But when you think about life in general, we all need some degree of hope just to keep us going, something to help us to look forward to certain things, right?

Hope helps us to not get discouraged. It helps us to not give up because we have something to keep going for. And this can look different for each of us. But ultimately, having hope helps us to take each step along our life journey. So now that we've covered the very basic of what hope is, I want to explore ideas for achieving it in your own life.