How many times do you think you said no today? What about this month? Even this year? Probably a lot right? What was your reasoning? Too tired, not interested, too scared? I am sure there have been a few of those nos in your past that you wish you could take back and turn into yes, am I correct?
We spend more time wondering if we made the wrong choice by saying no than the actual thing would have taken. Whatever your reason behind all your nos, imagine if you had said yes every single time. Instead of saying no try saying yes.
In the beginning of 2015, I looked around and realized I did not like some of the people that were in my life. I didn’t appreciate their negative outlook on life. Regardless of how unhappy I was in this certain situation, I continued to say no and shut other doors of opportunities before they even opened. A person I had just met would invite me to go grab a coffee and I would say, “No thank you.”
In 2015, I said no so many times, simply out of fear. Scared to get hurt, scared to look like a fool, scared that it would not work. Looking back on my 2015 I can’t help but wonder how different my life could have been if I had simply turned even one of those nos into a yes.
If I had just said yes to even one of those hangouts, dates, etc., who knows how different my life could have been. Now I will never know.
What if you make 2016 the year of yes?
Now I am not talking about getting stupid and reckless. If it involves dangling anyone out a window clearly the answer is no but I would hope that is a given.
I'm talking about the simple yeses that open doors of opportunities for us and those doors that we slam before we even have the chance to open them.
Towards the end of the 2015 year, I noticed that I started to say yes more than I was saying no. It was almost like an out of body experience. My mind was saying, “No get out of there it's so out of your comfort zone” but my mouth was saying, “Yes.”
Awkward at first? Of course! But so worth it. I am ending the year with people I love and respect and who respect me. I did not go out with a mindset that I was going to make big changes in my life I just simply tried saying yes more than I said no and voila – my life started to change!
As the year comes to an end everyone will be making their New Year's resolutions that most of them will break by March. Let’s be realistic. Instead of making a list of “X" amount of things you need to complete by the end of 2016 why don’t you just tell yourself, this will be the year of yes?
