Sometimes hope is a beautiful thing. It can motivate, empower, and inspire you when you’re tempted to give up. But other times it just keeps you stuck. When you push through today for a better tomorrow, without doing anything to create that new possibility, your hope creates the illusion of change to come, when in truth you have done nothing to create anything new in your life. And, when you hold onto the past, hoping to revive a relationship, situation, or time that is clearly over with, your hope stops even better possibilities in the present. When you hope you’ll someday know happiness—when you get the right relationship, the right job, the right amount of money in your bank account—your hope allows you to avoid reality. And it makes it unlikely that you’ll ever know happiness since hope for something else is the only way you know to experience it. Today, consciously stop hoping and wishing your life away. Hope is comforting, but not always empowering. It is only through your beliefs that your good will come. Hope may give you possibilities in tomorrow, but belief gives you possibilities NOW.

When you believe you can be happy regardless of what you gain or achieve, you open your eyes and find reasons to feel and share joy. When you believe you can have something better, you take responsibility for creating it, starting in this moment. When you believe you’re complete, even if you don’t feel good in any given moment, you challenge yourself to think beyond your emotions, and remember the larger picture. Today, believe you can! Believe your way into the life you desire and create that tomorrow you want. It starts right now. It starts today!

Just for today, I recognize that Life is really simple. I create my experiences by my thinking and feeling patterns. What I believe a about myself and my life becomes true for me. I believe in my own power to create the life I desire. I am safe and Life supports me in every possible way. And so it is