The Promise of Hope: 9 Keys to Powerful Personal Change
Edward Grinnan, editor-in-chief of Guideposts magazine, shares nine secrets that empowered him to overcome the impossible. He had hit bottom. Death was the next stop in his battle with alcoholism and.

"We yearn for personal change," writes Guideposts magazine's Editor-in-Chief Edward Grinnan in his book The Promise of Hope, "be it big or small, life-changing or life-saving."
In meeting hundreds of people with incredible stories of lasting personal change, Grinnan writes that he has learned that there are nine essential qualities universal to the change process. He called them "9 Keys to Powerful Personal Change."
"With them," he writes, "you’ll see how you can achieve change of monumental proportions."

Transformational personal change begins with honesty
Fear is the greatest obstacle to change. We hide from tough truths about ourselves and what we want in life. Most of us are honest, yet there’s no one easier to lie to than yourself.
Real change requires a fearless look in the mirror.


If honesty is a sail, willingness is the wind that fills it. It’s not enough to say, “I know I should be a more attentive husband” or “I know I need to be a more patient boss.”
You have to find the willingness to do something about it.
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Imagination points the way to the change we seek
The more you imagine your change, the more you become it.
"If I hadn’t realized that," writes Grinnan, "I may well have died. But thanks to imagination, I saw that I didn’t have to be who I always had been. None of us does. We all can change."

The engine of personal change is commitment
"I don’t know anyone who has tried to change themselves who hasn’t encountered failure and setbacks," writes Grinnan in The Promise of Hope.
During those times, commitment keeps us focused on our larger purpose. It is you, keeping a promise to yourself.

Growing your faith is building a bridge to God
Faith is the elemental belief that there is a loving power greater than ourselves to whom we can appeal for strength and help.
"You don’t have to have faith to change," writes Grinnan, "but it helps. A lot. Because it means you never have to go it alone."
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Happy people know how to forgive
Forgiveness, of self or of another, may be the most transformative change any of us can have.
When we forgive, we release both ourselves and the person we forgive from resentment and anger. It’s the ultimate act of letting go and moving on.

Make the most of what we are given
When we choose acceptance, we can make the most of what we are given.
Acceptance means changing yourself in order to adapt to hard realities.
It frees us from a doomed struggle and allows us to conform mentally and spiritually to life events we have no power over, may not understand and cannot change.
Acceptance, in other words, is a choice.

Resilience Is the Power We All Possess to Bounce Back from Life’s Inevitable Setbacks
"There was a period in my life that was so dark, I truly lost hope," writes Grinnan. "What saved me was resilience - a resilience forged in the heat and light of divine love that miraculously and with unquestionable certainty changed me."
That same power of resilience is available to us all.

Love is the final indispensable step to personal transformation and happiness
Change is a process of self-discovery.
And love, that primal metaphysical essence, is the greatest power for change in the universe. It allows us to truly understand and be ourselves. Without love, we feel empty and purposeless.
But with it, we are free to become our truest selves.

Learn more about how these 9 keys to powerful personal growth can help you discover true happiness in Edward Grinnan's new book, The Promise of Hope!