HAPPY NEW YEAR friends, kin and those who passed by this article expecting......ah yes H.O.P.E.! For those who barely made it through 2013. Breathe---the BEST is yet to come. You---Me--WE made it. Could you do 2 things for yourself wherever you are this weekend reading this---SMILE and Choose Hope.  As I sit up and enjoy the haze of morning and the confines of warmth and light, I reflect on this word “Hope”---from the definition of a “positive imagination”. Today in major Midwest and East coast cities, it’s looking like a slight winter cuddle fest or for some who still have Christmas on their mind---“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”.  The snow is lying on the earth so gently---it could almost get you into trouble promoting a “Lazy Day” or for you in corporate America “A floating holiday.” The mellow snow fall looks so innocent, beautiful, lazily like--maybe a day to make “snow angels” and or to go sledding. Whichever way you look at it---it’s beautiful. It’s a “snow blanket” present in the presence of our reality that beneath the “snow blanket” is grass, gravel, and many other elements that are in hibernation due to this blanket of snow.  That pretty much is a representation of hope.

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This is a start of a new day, a new year, and many new moments for you and me. So let me reintroduce myself to you. My name is David D. Robertson starting today, I am your “H.O.P.E. Dealer” giving you daily doses of hope- Helping Other People Evolve. Over the past 6+ years my life has transformed from a hopeless place to a hopeful reservoir. Author, social entrepreneur, speaker, artist, friend, son, thought leader and a whole lot of blah blah blahs.  Let’s cut to the chase and be honest. The above summary about the snow and the beauty is hard to conjure up and conceptualize when your perspective on life has been hopeless and dark. Well, if you are reading this, you my friend are lucky. It’s time to bring that light from the inside---OUT. Over the course of the last 2 years many MANY people have reach out and asked, “David, this consistent ”Hope“ you have....how do you wake up every day so excited?” Let’s start here with a random example, mental exercise or in my words a lil something something ...I love eating green apples and honey. I cut up the green apple and dip the apple pieces in honey, which typically is a portion of my first meal of the day.

When you reread “green apple” and “honey” you don’t see the words in your mind, you see a GREEN APPLE and HONEY. Our imagination shows us through pictures, the words we speak, hear and read. If you’ve never seen a green apple the statement above would be very hard to envision. If I would say I enjoy eating rotten green apples and honey---you’d probably be a tad bit taken back because of this image of a rotten apple with a worm in it. Our words paint our day, our words role play with our emotions and actions,  our words my friends have power--dynamic power. So if this brief lesson of hope words can help shift you let it, if you are still a tad bit leery keep on reading, keep on checking in on this “hope” thing. Soon enough it’s going to be apart of your living legend.

Today pay it forward (first weekend of 2014)--- step out of your comfort zone. Compliment someone, make a positive comment about the weather even though most are frustrated and irritable. Grab a cup of coffee or hot tea and give it to someone who may need to little pick me upper. If you want hope, you have to be the hope you want to see.  By any means sow a little bit and reap a little bit.

If you want a sure way to get in touch with me and get introduced to a community of people who have given me hope check out my profile on PositiveSingles.com, an online community where people with STDs can find support -- and a chance at romance.

Weekend Affirmation:

Hope is the expectation of greatness. I choose hope. I choose joy. I choose happiness. I am grateful for everything. I have nothing to complain about. My smile warms the hardest heart. My life is a light beam to those hidden in the dark. I am salt. I am savory and flavorful. I am a conduit of hope.