The Hope Quotient

by Ray Johnston

Overview

What’s at the heart of every thriving person, every thriving marriage, kid, and business?

Hope!

The Hope Quotient is a revolutionary new method for measuring—and dramatically increasing—your level of hope. Hope is more than a feeling; it’s the by-product of seven key factors. When these are present in your life, they cause hope to thrive.

Factor 1: Recharge Your Batteries Nobody does well running on empty.

Factor 2: Raise Your Expectations You don’t get what you deserve; you get what you expect.

Factor 3: Refocus on the Future It’s time to throw away your rearview mirror. No one goes forward well when they are looking back.

Factor 4: Play to Your Strengths Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Factor 5: Refuse to Go It Alone Never underestimate the power of support. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto.

Factor 6: Replace Burnout with Balance Burning the candle at both ends isn’t as bright as you think.

Factor 7: Play Great Defense Avoid these five toxic hope killers that can threaten your future.

Using seven years of research, powerful biblical illustrations, and compelling human-interest stories, Ray Johnston explains how these seven essential factors will support, sustain, and strengthen your hope. And when consciously built into your life, how they will unleash hope in your marriage, your kids, your career, your church, your community, and the world.

Discover your HQ level, the most important contributor to your overall success, and then learn how to improve it. Because when hope rises—everything changes.

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Hope: It’s the one thing that can change everything!

When you have hope, eleven things are unleashed in your life:

• You have more satisfying relationships.
• You’re more productive.
• You’re less affected by stress.
• You’re more successful.
• You’re more satisfied.
• You’re more compassionate.
• You’re more willing to help people in need.
• You’re physically healthier.
• You hold yourself to higher moral and ethical standards.
• You’re more likely to assume leadership.
• You’re more likely to see God as loving, caring, and forgiving.

This book will help you discover your HQ level and learn the seven key factors that, when built into your life, unleash hope. When you have genuine hope—not trite, pious platitudes but authentic hope that produces inner strength and confidence—anything is possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780529101167
Publisher:	HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Publication date:	08/22/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ray Johnston has a rich, varied background as a speaker, writer, and founder of Thrive Communications and the Thrive Leadership Conference. Author of the bestselling book The Hope Quotient, he is the founding pastor of Bayside Church, one of the largest churches in the United States, with more than twelve thousand people. Ray has spoken to more than four million people over the last ten years and served on the board of trustees at Azusa Pacific University, his alma mater. Ray and his wife, Carol, have four adult children.

Table of Contents

Read This First xv

Read This Second xvii

Part 1 The Single Most Important Thing To Do

1 Where It Began 3

2 Your HQ Changes Everything 9

3 Discouragement Destroys Everything 25

Part 2 Seven Factors That Raise Your Hope Quotient

4 The Seven 35

5 One: Recharge Your Batteries 41

6 Two: Raise Your Expectations 57

7 Three: Refocus on the Future 71

8 Four: Play to Your Strengths 87

9 Five: Refuse to Go It Alone 101

10 Six: Replace Burnout with Balance 113

11 Seven: Play Great Defense 129

Part 3 Unleashing a Culture of Hope

12 Unleashing Hope in Your Marriage 145

13 Unleashing Hope in Your Kids 161

14 Unleashing Hope in Your Career 175

15 Unleashing Hope in Your Church 185

16 Unleashing Hope in Your Community 197

17 Unleashing Hope in the World 205

Read This Last: A Conspiracy of Grace 217

Acknowledgments 223

Notes 225

About The Author 235