Hope is a goal without a deadline or a desire without a plan.\u00a0 Hope alone is never enough.<\/p>\n
The Spanish verb for hope is Esperar.\u00a0 Esperar is also the verb for wait. It illustrates the problem I see with hope.\u00a0 Hope is fatalistic.\u00a0 It presume that you don’t have control.\u00a0 I reject that idea.\u00a0 I believe that there are always some things you can do to affect your fate.<\/p>\n
In English this is illustrated by the difference between affect<\/em> meaning “make a difference to” and effect<\/em> meaning “a consequence of an action.”\u00a0 You can hope an e<\/strong>ffect is positive or you can try to a<\/strong>ffect a positive outcome.\u00a0 One is active the other is passive.\u00a0 Hope is almost never the best strategy except when trying to win an election.<\/p>\n Note to regular readers:\u00a0 This completes a little run:\u00a0 Faith<\/a><\/strong>, Hope<\/a><\/strong> and Charity<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 What is the famous mention of these three virtues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hope is a goal without a deadline or a desire without a plan.\u00a0 Hope alone is never enough. The Spanish verb for hope is Esperar.\u00a0 Esperar is also the verb for wait. It illustrates the problem I see with hope.\u00a0 Hope is fatalistic.\u00a0 It presume that you don’t have control.\u00a0 I reject that idea.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99jGb-hope","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}