Hope isn’t about blind positivity or pretending everything will be okay.

Hope is movement.
It’s the quiet decision to try again — even when things feel heavy, uncertain, or lost.

When we lose hope, we don’t just feel sad.
We stop moving — emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We disconnect from the future we once imagined. This is despair.

Hope Theory Worksheet 

Rick Snyder’s Hope Theory describes hope as made up of three key components:

1.    Vision: a north star, a future where I’m living a life aligned to my values

2.    Pathway thinking

3.    Agency thinking