🧠 You're holding onto hope

You’re holding onto hope like it’s the one thing they can’t steal from you, and that’s all that matters. Keep going.

Here are three mindsets to inspire you to hold onto hope.

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- Case Kenny (@case.kenny)

1. Don’t be like them (pessimists)

Listen to my new podcast episode where I talk about why pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I talk about the power of “real optimism.”

• Optimism doesn’t require positivity.

• Pessimism discourages action.

• Optimism is belief in possibility.

Listen here.

2. The most attractive thing about you

The most attractive thing about you is your ability to NOT become what has happened to you.

You can be a 10/10 thirst trap, hotter than a fresh cup of coffee, all curves and no brakes, the most successful and hilarious person in the room... but if you're carrying a heart full of grudges and living with a conscience that’s anything but clean, is that really attractive?

It’s attractive when someone has experienced people and events in life that didn’t recognize their worth but you don’t turn around and treat others in the same way. You didn’t turn bitter or start playing the same dirty games they did. You kept your kindness even when life tried to take it.

People underestimate how hard it is to stay kind, to stay open, when the world keeps trying to make you close up shop. That’s the kind of attractive you can’t buy or fake. It’s in the way you move and in how you treat people, even when no one’s watching.

It’s not just that you’re kind, it’s that you choose to be kind when you have every reason not to be. You’ve been hurt, but you don’t let that turn you into someone you’re not. 

The most attractive thing about you is that no matter how many times the world has failed you, you never fail to show up with love anyway.

If you’ve been hurt but refuse to hurt others in the same way, please never change.

If your kindness is an instinct, not a tactic. Please never change.

If you bring love to the table, even when everyone else brings indifference, please never change.

If you show up with an enthusiastic soul in a world that tells you to play it cool, please never change.

The most attractive thing about you is that you’ve been through chaos but never handed it back to anyone else. You refuse to let the world's chaos define your character.

3. People who are good for your soul…

People who are good for your soul have a knack for turning random hangouts together into core memories.

People who are good for your soul let you rant for 30 minutes and still say, “tell me more.”

People who are good for your soul make it obvious that they’re always in your corner.

People who are good for your soul make passionate and unconventional feel like the norm.

People who are good for your soul glow with second-hand happiness when they see you happy.

People who are good for your soul would rather share laughter than spread gossip.

People who are good for your soul want more FOR you, not FROM you.

People who are good for your soul lift you to new levels, they don’t pull you back to old ones.

My name is Case. I believe in the power of perspective.

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