Hope is a dangerous thing. Realism is not.

[Datboi65]

A lot of us like to hope for better days and better outcomes, but they aren't coming. Try to "manifest" better luck for all aspects of life. Whether it's finding a job, a nice house in a good area for sale, a great wife/husband and so on. Where are we going wrong? It's all about perspective.

When it comes to it, I believe that faith and hope are different things. I define faith as a metaphysical feeling that cannot be explained by the physical sense, and is due to our connection with our creator. Having faith is part of human nature, but having faith is also realizing that you may not always get your desired outcomes because may be there's something in store that's better, which you're unaware of at the moment. It's more realistic in that if you work hard towards something and have faith, you are more likely to achieve it because even though faith in God is important for success, you have to put in the work necessary to achieve that goal and the two components compliment one another to achieve your desired outcome.

With hope on the other hand, it's not always realistic. The way I define "hope" is the lack of certainty due to insufficient effort, while still desiring the same benefit. There are a lot of people who procrastinate, don't work on their craft and improve their skills enough to get the job they want, don't work on themselves and are not trying hard enough to get the partner that they want, but they "hope" that they can get all of that one day. Some of them are even here on this platform, without mentioning any names of course.

I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but your dream should be both realistic and achievable. To define "realistic" in itself is tricky, since there's a minority of the population who can do what most of us deem as impossible and so their dreams are more ambitious but are still realistic because they are within their range of limits. Then there's the majority which are lazy and hopeful for things that they can probably do of they stretch themselves out to the limit, but have no desire of doing so because they don't want to go outside of what's comfortable.

Make no mistake, I'm not saying that you have to be exceptional. If you want an average life and are happy with it, then I'm happy for you. However, I'm starting to get tired about people ranting about a problem and not being active in trying to fix said problem, just hoping it would go away.

If you're reading this and find that it applies to you, I want you to write down what you want to achieve today, a week from today, a month, a year, 5 years and 10 years from now. Next, write down what needs to be done in order for you to get there. You will realize that's not an easy journey, but nothing that's good comes off easy. Work your ass off and stop complaining without trying, because other folks have plenty on their plate as well. Your mind will stronger and more realistic, and you will actually start to envision yourself doing what you want to do instead of aimlessly hoping for something that will never happen.

[Anonymous]

The problem is people don't know what goal achieving is.
The problem is people don't know who they are; where they are.
The problem is people don't know what faith is.

Goal achieving - is the ability to alter your conditioning to fit the demands of the goal
Human - is a mass of energy that operates on frequencies or ideas located in the subconscious mind. Humans also have a conscious mind that gives them the ability to alter the subconscious.
Faith - is the ability to believe something is already done at a subconscious level. Believe it in your heart. The greeks referred to the subconscious mind as the heart. Scientifically that means you have the neural wiring of the person who has already achieved the goal.

Faith without action is delusion... Life operates on the Law of cause and effect.
You have to pay the price. Life is amoral; it won't change its way for you.

If you have been going nowhere it's because you aren't operating with the programming you need. Your current programming is gonna keep you right where you are.

To do something you have to be something first. You have to have the conditioning.

The ideas in the subconscious mind express themselves with and through you.
That's what we call desire or urge. Once that desire or urge is fixed in the subconscious we call it a habit. The urge causes the action. Motive and habit are twin brothers.

If you want to plant an idea in your subconscious you take the idea and get emotionally involved with it by aid of the motive. This is what is known as the urge. If this is done often and frequently it will become a fixed thing in the subconscious and any opposing idea will decay via the pathways/wiring.

Belief is the same and is how the law of attraction works.

[Datboi65]

Brilliant take. The law of cause and effect is what moves a person. A cause without an effect is empty hope, but also effect needs to match the intensity of the urge. If I said I want to be a software engineer and was putting in some effort but not as much as I should be, is there going to be an effect? Better than someone not trying at all, but not near optimal level. Faith is the subconscious belief in that the task has already been achieved, but that can only be paired with the hunger and discipline to accomplish it. I find that these things together are what create a realistic mindset of a goal that is both ambitious but also achievable.

[strateguy632]

that hope without trying is dangerous

[KingOfMe1]

It's delusion. Life works by cause and effect you have to pay the price and if you dont life doesn't care.