In this episode, we discuss how hope is generally not a good strategy for you reaching your goals.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about how hope is not a good strategy. When it comes to your retirement, your professional goals, and your relationship goals, hope is a horrible strategy. You have to be intentional in making them better. I know some people whose retirement plan is to win the lottery. It’s possible to win the lottery but it’s not very probable. You can play the lottery every week for the rest of your life, and you will never win the big jackpot. Plus if you win a million dollars, that is still not enough for some people live off of for the rest of their retirement years since you can only get roughly $3000 a month off a million dollars a month if you don’t want it to run out in retirement.
I know nothing will come my way so hope is never going to be a strategy that I rely on. I might reach out to one prospective client and hope they sign on with me, but I can put my entire business into that one person, I need to have a pipeline where I am targeting at least ten different clients at a time. Because while I am waiting on one client, I am able to focus others to make sure I have a constant stream coming. There is no worse feeling to have zero things in the pipeline and you just have to be rushing and panicking to fill the pipeline back up.
Hope can be a good thing and a bad thing. Hope is good when you’re working towards something. Hope is bad when you’re waiting for things to come to you. You’re going to need hope when you’re working towards something because it’s that carrot that is going to keep you moving forward. People make a lot of decisions based on incentives, whatever is going to make them feel good. There are three types of incentives, moral, financial, and social. So if you’re working towards something and it’s going to give you a social and financial benefit greater than what you have now, then you’re going to continue with the thing because you want that better future. I know I tell myself to keep going because I’m going to get this and this.
One of my goals is to move to Latin America next year to go learn Spanish and to be a digital nomad. I just need my laptop and microphone to do my job in Latin America so then I can earn US dollars but pay for stuff in pesos which will allow me to live a better standard of living in Latin America than the US. Then once I learn Spanish, then I can start making content in Spanish so that I can help even more people.
I know I can’t hope for things to get better for Latinos and Financial Security. I have to go out there and make it happen. The best way to predict the future is to go out and create it. I can hope things will get better because I know they won’t. So whatever you’re hoping to get better, you have to realize that it won’t get better or the likelihood is very small.
The best thing to start making some changes that will actually get you to the results you want. If you want to lose weight, you have to make some decisions now. You can’t wait for things to get better. The more you workout, sleep right, and eat right, the higher the chance that you will get into shape.
If you’re starting a business, the more people you ask for business, the opportunities you will have to sign people as clients or to buy from you. You can hope that your business will get better and will get better if you work towards that success.
We hear stories where people got lucky, and there will always be those outliers out there, but they won’t get to enjoy the success as much as you will when you reach your goals because it earned, not given. In the Marines, you have to earn the title of US Marine by going through boot camp. It’s not something that is just given to you. I remember in boot camp that you just wish things were over and you’re only hope was that you knew things were going to be over in three months. That hope helped out because every day that went by, was one day closer to graduating. I just had to survive the day.
To reach financial, job, and relationship security through hope, is not going to work out. You’re just going to maintain the same lousy relationships, the same crappy job, and the same paycheck to paycheck mentality. So if you want these to change, you need to change as a person. If you want to change the world, start with changing yourself first.
Thanks for listening to today’s episode, to summarize it, hope is not a good strategy. So don’t hope things will get better, start making some changes with your routine and habits that will give you that better future. You’ll increase the likelihood of it happening if you follow this strategy. It’s possible to not change yourself to get a better future but it’s not very probable. So don’t make hope your only strategy and you should live a much better life.
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