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Published by Bill Howitt on the globe and mail.com on July 26, 2017.

I share this article with you as a side dish because the article has helped me over the years,

and I feel any interpretation of Bill's presentation just wouldn't do it justice.

So here it is in its entirety.

On a typical day, what do you hope for?

Take today, for example, when you woke up, what did you hope would happen?

We typically don't think about the day when asked this

question. We tend to focus on a situation. For example, I sent her a text and I hope she'll call me

back today. Hope can be thought of as something passive. As a result, if she doesn't text back, this can result in negative emotions.

Researchers like Charles Richard Snyder studied how hope can have a positive impact on our overall health and happiness.

Mr. Snyder suggested that hope can evolve when we have a plan in mind,

are committed, and execute the plan to achieve a goal. He and his colleagues define hope as

a positive motivational state that is based on an interactively derived sense of success. A. Agency,

goal-directed energy, and B, pathways, planning to meet goals. This suggests that hope doesn't

need to be passive. It's better to be active in creating hope. The purpose of this micro skill

is to introduce the acronym, Hope, Healthy, Optimistic, Positive Experience. This acronym can support

our daily decision-making that promotes well-being.

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