July 12th marks four years since I was told I had seven months to live. Here's what I learned about the real power of hope.
HOPE.
Such an innocent word. Gets tossed around like confetti at a celebration nobody really believes in.
We've been programmed to think hope is fluffy. Wishful thinking.
Something you do when you've run out of real options.
This is completely unfair to a word that can literally change every aspect of your life in a flash.
The Programming Problem
The problem? We're all plugged into a reality we've been trained to believe. Unless we awaken and unplug from that programming, we never see the actual potential behind something as powerful as hope.
Four years ago today, I was given a brain cancer prognosis: seven months to live.
In that terrible moment, I felt compelled to redefine what hope really meant. Not just for myself and what I was about to go through, but to help others on the same path awaken into their lives. To create something that would help people transform into the fullest, truest versions of themselves. To help them live to their highest potential.
The Truth About Prognosis vs. Diagnosis
Here's what I learned:Â Somebody else's prognosis is not your diagnosis for your life.
There's so much that can happen between "once upon a time" and "the end." But it's up to us to pick up that pen and write that story.
Nobody's coming to save us.
We can stay plugged into assumptions we'll continue making throughout our lives. Or we can wake up and realize it's all an illusion. This reality we're creating is perceived through our consciousness.
The Power of Conscious Creation
Want to change who you are? Change what you think you are.
Want to be somebody who's healed? How would that person think and behave? Do that.
Want that new job? What would it feel like to walk through that door? What would it look like? What would it smell like? Sit down, figure that out in your head, and change your reality.
What hope does for you is provide a path. It's the ignition to let you know it's out there.
There are people like me sharing our stories to show you the impossible can become possible if you choose to change the angle from which you look at things.
Refusing the Limitations
I refuse to let others tell me what my life will be like.
Once you unplug and see the power you have to be the creator in your life, you realize that impossible is just what people label things they haven't figured out yet.
I'm no guru. I don't have all the answers. But I'm willing to try. I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. I'm willing to pivot and understand that this path sometimes requires me to love myself a little more to do the hard stuff. To show up when I don't want to.
All of that leads to the big payoff: feeling empowered.
That's the stuff that lets other people know they can also be somebody who makes it four years when somebody else says that's impossible.
Your Best Day Yet
You are absolutely amazing exactly as you are.
You may feel like your best days are behind you, but that's not true.
Today is the best day yet, because you're here. Still writing.
Sometimes the path moves a little, but you aren't a failure.
You're a creator.
And impossible? Impossible is optional.
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