By Hamka Rosli
Hope is anything that you can dream of to come true. Your dream job, your dream house, your dream life or anything that can possibly happen, but must be something that is realistic. You cannot possibly dream of having super powers because that is something out of this world. Hope is a means to achieve anything that you want in this life. With hope you learn not to give up even if it seems like nothing is going to work.
Hope gives you the positive thought, confidence, and most important, goal setting. It helps you to organise your way to your dreams. Some people may got the positive thought and confidence, but lack of goal setting. So anything that a person planned for seems useless because of the unorganised ways though that person is determined towards his or her goal. Hence, hope can be seen as the tool to accomplish our aims and dreams.
To fulfil our dream, one must not lose their hope. We must hold on to that hope until we get it. Â God willing, with the dua, effort and some help from Allah, eventually that dream will come true. With hope it gives you positive thinking when things seem helpless. Keeping the positive vibes is essentially to boost our effort on do something that we want to achieve. It will enhance our spirit on doing things. For instance, if you want to change yourself to become a better person, you need to keep that in mind and stay positive because any negative thought will decrease your motivation. Positive thought will enhance your motivation. So, with positive thinking you can drive yourself to achieve your goals, that is also with the hope that you hold.
Hope can be so fragile without confidence. We need the confidence to control the fear inside us, the fear of failure. Every one of us has the feeling of fear to do something or to accomplish something because we fear that we might fail. Those who fail are those who fear to fail. How can we know if we are going to succeed if we never try? The first step is very crucial. Take the first step with confidence. When we are confident with our first step, the next step will come easy. If the next step is just as hard as the first step, dont let yourself drown in your own fear. People around you are watching you. Show them what you are capable of and dont let down people who support you because those people who support you had put hope in you. So, build your self-confidence and stick it with your hopes so that your fear will disappear.
Plan ahead and do some check-list to guide you. This is where your mental work take part on planning things you should and shouldn’t do. When you had some plan in your head, it will give the ˜power to guide or to give a clear approach where you should and shouldn’t go or what you should and shouldn’t do. For example, if an overweight person want to lose weight and get fit, that person needs to have some sort of plan, like a healthy diet plan. You cannot just go to the gym and run around with the hope you can get the perfect body. It doesn’t work that way. You need to organise your workout hours and plan what meal you should and shouldn’t take. This is not a plan you sketch on a piece of paper but a plan that you uphold in your mind. With this plan you will get some hopeful thought that will help you strike for the goal. Therefore, organise your goal with some plan in mind and bear with  it until you get what you always hope for.
When you are in the right track to fulfil your dreams, you need to set it so that you wont go off track. It simply means that we need to keep our action constant from time to time. Never change your goal setting or you will go off the track. Lets go back to the previous example where a person is trying to lose some weight. That person needs to constantly do some work out and constantly keep to the diet. You cannot just skip the work out session for one week. If you do that, you wont  achieve your goal.
You need to bear in mind that doing it constantly is very important in order for you to get what you are hoping for. Its not only helping you to achieve your goal, but its also helping you to keep your consciousness and aware of the things you had planned for. This goal setting will give you some sort of motivation to keep moving and not to give up because what you hope for is what your heart really wants. Nevertheless, a plan is just a plan without willpower and goal setting you won’t be able to achieve anything in life. So, get on the right track and keep doing what you have planned and never lose hope.***
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