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Hope is Not a Plan — But It’s the Power Behind One

By Joe Templin · May 21, 2026 · 1 min read

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

— Christopher Reeve

Hope is not a plan, but is the power behind it. It is the precursor to faith and success.

Hope allows you to pick up the phone over and over again and allows flowers to break through the muddy earth in the Spring, green and growing and having faith in the inevitability of growth.

If you have 100 names on your desk to call from getting Introductions, you know you will have success if you call them all. Is that hope, or faith, or inevitability?

Once you buy into the concept of building an Introduction Based Business and that you can help everybody in some way, hope starts burning inside you and eliminates doubt. It motivates you to try again and again because of the underlying certainty of inevitable success — like the green shoots of Spring knowing that they will flower, even if there is snow today.

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