🧠Weekly Mind Sweep No. 168 | What’s On My Mind | Hope
March 2025
Week 165: Curated Conversation: Hope
Week 166: Mind Your Business: Hope
Week 167: Manage Your Mind: Hope
*Week 168: What’s On My Mind: Hope
Let’s sweep the brain…
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In the MindSweep this week:
Curated Conversation with curated GIF’s & puns (for your entertainment).
Jamie’s Second Brain Corner: Links to references. Need a map? I’ve got you!
What’s I’m Reading - The Frozen River - Maine 1789
Collaborations with Terri Hamilton (Thursday) & Shannon Giordano and the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
My face đź’ś and a link to schedule your free consultation.
Before the Bloom
There’s something profoundly strange about planting bulbs in late fall.
You dig through half-frozen soil, drop in something small, brown, and utterly unimpressive, cover it up, and… wait.
No flourish. No green shoots. No instant reward.
Just cold ground and the quiet question: Will anything actually come of this?
The hardest part of hope is the waiting.
Under the frozen soil, growth has already begun. Even when you can’t see it. And yet, without fail, tulips bloom around our garden every spring.
Hope is like that.
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Over the past three weeks, we’ve explored the many layers of hope—what it means, how it manifests in business, and what neuroscience tells us about how it functions in our brains.
In Week 165, we started with the heart of it.
Hope is not a passive wish but an active force—something that gives us the energy to move forward, even when outcomes aren’t guaranteed. Hope is not naive. It's creative. It’s rebellious. It’s a choice to imagine better.
In Week 166, we got honest about how hope plays out in business.
Especially for creative, neurodivergent entrepreneurs like us, hope isn’t a luxury—it’s oxygen. It fuels vision. It keeps us grounded when feedback loops are inconsistent, when our brains work differently, when traditional paths just don’t fit.
In Week 167, we zoomed in on the brain itself.
The science is clear: hope isn’t just wishful thinking. It’s a cognitive process—measurable, actionable, and deeply connected to how we set goals, track progress, and decide what’s next. Hope literally lights up the brain.
So here we are in Week 4 of Hope, and I want to offer you this image to carry with you:
Hope is the seed you planted in winter.
It’s the moment you invest energy into something that shows no visible signs of success.
It’s when you keep creating, launching, experimenting—even when the world above feels cold and still.
It’s when you nurture your ideas and your self-worth, even when progress is slow, and the silence is loud.
The neuroscience backs this up: when we engage with hope, we’re not just “feeling better.” We’re activating regions of the brain that help us plan, persist, and move forward. But like all growth, it often begins in the dark.
And this can be the hardest part—especially for creative, multi-passionate entrepreneurs. We live in a world that values speed and visibility.
But our growth cycles? They’re often non-linear, rhythmic, messy, and deeply personal.
And that’s not just okay—it’s powerful. Because even under frozen soil, the seed knows what to do.
Even when you can’t see it, hope is at work.
Here’s my invitation for you this week:
Trust what you’ve planted.
Keep tending to your ideas, even if they’re quiet.
Let yourself believe that your business—and your brain—are moving toward something good.
The bloom will come. And when it does? It’ll feel like magic. But you’ll know better.
It was hope, all along.
My questions for you this week :
What does “hope in action” look like for you right now? Is it taking the next small step? Saying no to something that no longer fits? Resting? Creating something no one else has seen yet?
What would change if you trusted that something beautiful is already unfolding—even if you can’t see it yet?
Reply and share with me!
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What I’m reading
The Frozen River
Author: Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death.
As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community.
Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.
Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard.
The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.
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