

Hope is not a strategy: A pause for thought for Health Psychology
This sentence popped up in my Spanish Duolingo practice yesterday (that is another story). As first I whole-heartedly agreed with the sentiment. I am a woman of action. But as I thought about it, I started to think that I would need to modify it to ‘Hope is not always a strategy.’ Initially it was the word ‘strategy’ that caused me to think. Oxford Dictionaries on-line define it as ‘A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim’. Following that I looked up