Hope has become the opium of the unsuccessful masses.

It's the pacifier that keeps you calm while your life slowly dies.

Every minute you spend hoping is a minute you're not preparing,

and every day you don't prepare is the day you fall further behind.

The successful people you admire, the wealthy people you envy,

the achievers you look up to, they all discovered this secret. Hope is the enemy.

Preparation is the weapon. While you're sitting there hoping your life will change, they're out there

making their lives change. All right, Thrive Nation on today's show, we're talking about the idea.

This is a controversial idea, and maybe Dr. Sherwood disagrees.

So I'm going to tell you my theory on this.

I want everybody out there to really wrestle with what I'm saying here.

I believe America has a plague of hope.

I actually think that hope is the enemy towards achieving goals and action is the actual plan to get there.

Hope without action, hope deferred, whatever you call that.

I always tell people that, you know, the idea of,

you know, procrastination, that's your giant. Procrastination is the giant. Action is your sword,

and inspiration is the reward. I'll repeat that again. The idea that procrastination is the, the, in a procrastination, it is the giant. That's the giant facing you right now. Procrastination is the giant. But action is the sword. You can use to slay that, that giant. But inspiration is the reward. Procrastination is, is the giant.

Action is the sword and inspiration is the reward.

And here to talk about turning your dreams into actions and then into results as my good friend and yours.

Dr. Mark Sherwood, welcome to The Thrive Time Show.

How are you, sir? You're doing well, Clay. Thanks for having me. I like that intro. That was pretty impressive, man. Well, well done. tribulations that I've gone through, some of them are very well documented in the public eye as it

relates to the reawakened tour. And hope is not a strategy. What is a strategy is coming up with

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