Just Say Yes!

Or why things are going to be a changing around these parts!

I just want to point something out here before we get started. I have been going strong on this blogging daily thing for three months. That means I'm a quarter of my way through completing my goal. Which is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself!

So anyway, how are things for you these days? No really, I'd like to know.

Things here are pretty decent. I had a little epiphany today. I'm having them a lot lately. I appreciate epiphanies. They help you live a better life if you pay attention. And that is what I am trying to do these days. I'm trying to pay attention.

So I read this today. "With the idea of no, you attract more of no..." (Dr. Wayne Dyer). Ouch. I've sort of developed a bit of a bad habit these days. I say no a lot. That or I wish I could say no or want to say no. These are some of the things I tell myself:

1. I have to get out of my comfort zone
2. I have to exert some modicum of effort...read, I am being lazy
3. I have fears about it - meaning whatever someone is asking me to do makes me anxious and uncomfortable
4. I think I can't do it
5. I think that it won't work out because "it never does"

But by doing that, I'm just attracting more of that no into my life. And is that really how I want to live? NO! (Irony...oh irony!)

Here is a list of things that seemed scary but that I said yes to...and they were smashing successes.

1. I took drama and acted on stage and it was fun and I made some awesome friends (sure I was eight or nine, but I had fun, darn it!). I said yes to being on stage!
2. I learned how to ski. All that reluctance and then when I finally learned, I found out how stupendous it was! (And I admit, I was scared, but now it isn't scary at all!) I said yes to throwing myself down a ski slope!
3. I competed in a beauty pageant and sang in front of over a thousand people. Enough said! I said yes!
4. I learned how to water ski and wake board. I said yes to being pulled behind a boat!
5. I moved cross country four times. Three of those times, I had to find a new job when I got there. I said yes to a new challenge.
6. I earned a graduate degree. I said yes to my future!
7. I was a teacher for six years. I said yes to controlling hundreds of teenagers and their angst on a daily basis!
8. I backpacked through Europe. I said yes to discovering culture!

I've noticed a miracle in my life the last few weeks. I've tried to find answers to help me move forward in my life. And as I've prayed and asked for answers, they have come in both small ways and in big ways. I'm finding that the more I allow myself to believe, to see beauty and abundance in the world around me, the more that I feel the guidance coming in. It may be a phone call from a friend. It may be a kind word. It may be a book. Whatever it is that comes along, though, I feel like the answers are there. And I am very very grateful for that.

I want to say yes more. I really think that the no that has sort of taken over my thinking has really brought me this angst and fear. And it is time to start living above that. I don't want to be one of the quiet masses that goes to bed worried and afraid at night. I want to go to bed feeling happy and excited about what is to come next. And waiting, just waiting, for the next opportunity to say yes. Say yes. SAY YES!!!