Positive Affirmation
The world is a challenging place with problems that seem insurmountable, too costly and generally unattainable. The antonyms for hope are desperation and despair which best describe much of what we face on a daily basis.
Hope: A feeing of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. The definition implies that I have no power or plan to influence the outcome.
A wish: to feel or express a strong desire for something, to request by expressing desire . A wish seems more powerful and implies that you might be able to conduct your life in a way that could make your wish come true. An Olympic athlete might hope to win but if she wishes to win she can achieve her desire through hard work which could result in a wish come true.
An affirmation is the action of affirming something. A positive assertion. Affirmations seem to be a powerful step up in the creation of a positive outcome. I affirm that I will accomplish a certain action implies that I will be making every effort to accomplish that action by affirmative steps and positive action.
Hoping for something sounds like a politician hoping that global warming goes away. Hoping is a weakly held belief or maybe a lazy way of indicating that you would like something to happen but you really are not willing to put in the effort —- Athletes don’t hope for success.
They might wish for their success as a way of approaching their goal with a positive attitude. Wishing is voicing a positive conclusion and does not preclude or ignore the hard work that must be done to make that wish come true.
A positive affirmation is a powerful statement of what you will achieve and forms a foundation that you can build from as you study, train and otherwise work to achieve that which you have affirmed.
I affirm that I will succeed. Affirmation feels like you mean it and you will work hard to achieve. Hoping feels like you think it will just fall in your lap —- like winning the lottery
I affirm that I will reach my goal through positive change and hard work.
That feels solid.