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Triggering hope

Once there was a war raging somewhere between two armies, one of the two armies was gaining ground and totally crushing the other army which was formed of a group of lightly armed people.

These people being less prepared compared to the others, started to lose hope day after day until they have reached a limit where they thought of everything as dark and that there was no way to win the war. At a point where hope was at its ground level, the commanders of the smaller army started to think of what to do and decided to a make small surprise attack on one of the other army's aircraft carriers, however they knew that destroying one of the dozen aircraft carriers would change nothing but what they were fighting till the end.

On the next day the small mission was successful and the carrier sank into the sea, but then something strange happened , all of the soldiers felt a tremendous amount of hope, they started to see that there may be some light in the middle of the darkness, they started to see everything as positive rather than negative. A few days later the second carrier sank as well, followed by the third and fourth up to the last one, and within few weeks the small army won the war.

What happened there?!

What happened there? And how did a small act like destroying the first carrier have that effect on these people? The answer is simple, it’s hope. When you trigger hope by any act even if it was not so big you start to see everything from a different perspective, you start to rearrange your cards and you may end up as a winner.

If you have experienced at some point of your life where everything was totally dark, where everything seemed to be against you, know that its normal to find yourself overgeneralization everything when thinking and as a result you will be seeing everything as dark. At such a time know that you can turn the whole situation to your side by triggering hope even by a small act that you do.

What you need here is the mentality of a positive thinker, you just need to trigger it by any external event. This event may not be that effective but its main task is to direct your mind from a state of no hope to a state of hope. This act can be anything that you can imagine, just keep thinking until you find any achievement that you could do in a limited time and of which was not planned for before.

Remember that choosing an activity that was not expected will be much more effective than an expected activity. As soon as you make this achievement you will find yourself looking at the opportunities within the difficulties rather that than looking at the difficulties within the opportunity, and that was all because you changed your way of thinking.

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