I Have Always Said, Goals are a Form of Hope. Brené Brown agrees.

I recently finished reading ‘Atlas of the Heart’ by Brené Brown (you can read my book review here) and loved her section on hope. This quote has stuck with me since reading the chapter, “We need hope like we need air” and her three-tiered approach at how we access hope. She speaks to 1) the ability to set goals, 2) the perceived pathways to make those goals a reality and 3) our agency - our belief in ourselves as the trifecta of hope.

The following chapter speaks to the emotion of hopelessness which occurs often when the goals don’t happen, perhaps we only had one path mapped out versus the other 82 possible ways and then of course, the power of believing in ourselves as intrinsically connected to how a goal comes to fruition and thus how hope is sustained (and even how we keep learning hope).