Sometimes realisations only hit you when you stop, take a step away from the busyness and reflect on the bigger picture from a removed place.
I had one of those moments this weekend after having just completed a big week of events at my school aimed at instilling hope. It was a frenetic, fantastic, stressful yet enjoyable week!
As I have been resting this weekend I got to thinking about where do you go after a big event like that? What is the follow up, how do you maintain momentum? And I realised that although big events can provide a remarkable catalyst for change they are not the ‘end’, instead they are just the beginning.
The thing that really makes a long term difference in anything is the consistent, small interactions and acts carried out day-by-day, everyday. Just like the key to a good level of fitness is not one massive session in the gym once every 2 months, rather it is regular manageable sessions in the gym several times a week.
Consistency and discipline produce results. The same is true when seeking to make a work environment more a hope-full place. What’s needed is a hopeful mindset, consistent actions along with language promoting hope and gradually the frame through which everything is perceived begins to change.
To step out on this journey we need to ask ourselves a vital question, ‘What is that hope based upon?’
This is quite possibly one of the most important questions we can invest our time in answering.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
WIDE OPEN PLANES 