Saying ‘YES’
Sometimes when we say this word, it’s said with conviction. Other times we may be a lot more reluctant. I want you, me, all of us to say yes passionately and confidently to new experiences. Now, I’m not encouraging you to do anything dangerous OR that puts you at risk. I’m simply imploring you to open your heart and mind to something new. In stepping into the unknown, we allow ourselves opportunities we could have only imagined.
Will we always know if it’s the right answer? No, we won’t. But there is so much power in the unknown. So much possibility when you say ‘YES!’ to you. It may be the best thing you’ve ever done, or you may decide that whatever it is you said yes to, will NEVER EVER be done again. Maybe you finally went on that trip or gave that guy a chance.
Regardless of the outcome, you allowed yourself to explore the unknown. Allowed yourself the opportunity to experience something out of your comfort zone, something new. And in that, you find yourself learning more about you.
When was the last time you said yes to your own desires? To your own goals? Do you always put yourself last? Your needs come last? You’re so busy looking after everyone else, caring for everyone but yourself. Who looks after you sweetheart?
If you always put yourself last, you will NEVER be happy. Do you feel you have to? What if you were to fall sick? Would all those extra shifts be worth it? All those late nights and early mornings be worth it? Would you wish that you did more for you? That you went on that trip, or picked up that hobby or went to that audition or maybe back to school?
Did they tell you ‘xyz’ is not for you? Did they tell you only a certain group of people do that? Did they make fun of you whenever you expressed your desires? They told you that you don’t belong in that room?
It’s time to stop saying ‘I will’ and just do it. Put your plans into action. Start living you dreams instead of waiting for them to come to you in your sleep. Is it ice skating? Book that lesson. A divorce? Sign those papers. Horse riding? Golf? Acting? Book it! Start showing up for yourself the same way you show up for others. Set the bar on how you like to be treated so everyone who enters your life knows what the standard is.
Maybe the first ‘no’ was from your parents, then as you got older, everyone else took one glance at you and decided ‘this isn’t for you’. The moment you embody such self-limiting beliefs, is the day they win and you become your biggest enemy.
You belong in EVERY room you choose to step into. EVERY. SINGLE. ROOM.
Affirmation: There is no place, no room on this Earth that isn’t for me. If I say it is, IT. IS.
