We are not whole complete people - at least I am not. I am a constant work in progress. Everyday I have to rededicate myself to who I am and what I want to be. My biggest culprit is sloth - I love to lay in bed on a drizzly morning after not sleeping great and fill my mind with incredible ideas. It is my super planning moment; that time laying in bed quietly. But if I am not careful I could find myself stuck there.
And so I rededicate myself each morning to being the whole person I want to be.
This morning I was thinking about the power of yes. I know that No is the word that most women feel the need to learn because they find themselves over committed to things that they don't really want to do. But what if, instead, we committed ourselves to saying YES to what we really did want to do. To taking risks in life when we don't know the outcome. To saying yes to things that we aren't sure about. Or saying yes to being asked to go somewhere when really we just want to stay in and sit on our couch.
Doesn't yes give us more life then no? Doesn't saying yes allow us to experience life more fully? Doesn't yes open doors?
So why are we all practicing saying no?
I think reclaiming Yes for ourselves has a lot more power then telling everyone no. I am challenging myself to say yes more. When a friend wants to go walking I say yes. When my husband wants to show me something right when I am in the middle of something I say yes. When I get asked to speak to a group, I say yes. Not because I am not listening to what I need, but because we have so little time here on this planet and I know that experiencing it as richly and fully as we can will provide deep happiness and no, well, no just shuts the door to opportunity.
What can you radically say yes to this week?
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