Succeess Coaching: What's The Force of "Yes!"?

What's the force of “Yes!�?

 

Welcome back!

Our topic this week takes a closer look at the infinite power of "Yes!" because when you affirm your will or desire through the force of the spoken word, a host of resulting actions ensues from what you've said. And setting those actions in motion through intentional voice is exactly what we're going to discover today.

 

Before I continue, I want to encourage you to take five minutes to enjoy my very first episode which is a video podcast that provides a natural segue into this episode. Even if you've seen it before, I hope you'll take the time to watch my inspirational mini-movie again as it sets the stage for the untold ways in which you can leverage the power of "Yes!" to create positive shifts in your life.

 

In past episodes, you may have heard me refer to the either/or paradigm. But… if you're unfamiliar with that concept, let me just say that, when you start paying attention, you'll notice that either/or thinking is our collective way of approaching just about everything you encounter; Win or lose, rich or poor, ally or enemy. The either/or consciousness informs the decisions you make each day from what you eat for breakfast, to who you put in office. The fundamental and often unnoticed trap of such thinking is duality.

 

Duality creates an “otherâ€?; something or someone outside of your experience or value system. Duality encourages blame by assigning responsibility to an alleged perpetrator. It’s us or them, ours or theirs, mine or yours. Duality reinforces the notion that you're somehow separate from the experience you desire from life; that happiness is out there, love is out there, and that health and wealth are things you get.  Believing in that means that you become a rat in the age-old rat race because you must either pursue what you don't have or strive to protect what you believe is yours. Stay young, stay beautiful, stay busy, stay numb.

 

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of the either/or paradigm is that you may be immersed in it and reminded throughout the day by popular media that you live amidst real scarcity. Greed and conspicuous consumption are the ugly step-children of someone who believes that scarcity is true. And if you’ve fallen under the spell of scarcity consciousness, you'll find yourself saying "No!" instead of "Yes!" You'll say no to opportunities, no to your loved ones and no to yourself.  You'll say no to your needs, no to your instincts and no to the unknown possibilities that might have otherwise existed for you.

 

So why do you say no?  Is it because you don't have the time or energy or money with which to say yes?  Is it because you haven't met some self-imposed conditions under which you might otherwise permit changes to occur? What I want you to see is that scarcity only begets more scarcity.  Fear begets fear and war begets war.  And is scarcity NOT the reason we go to battle with ourselves, our bosses and our fellow human beings?

 

So... I'm here to tell you, once and for all, that scarcity is a lie and my duty is to shed light upon the truth of abundance and how saying "Yes!" absolutely to your life empowers that abundance to be manifested in your reality.

 

When you give an absolute "Yes!" you'll immediately create a profound shift from either/or thinking to and/both thinking.  Whenever you engage the and/both part of your awareness, you instantly enter into the realm of possibility. From the and/both awareness, there are always more than just two choices. From and/both, you become conscious of the fact that there’s something behind door #3!  In that realm ANYTHING is possible. Miracles begin to take place.  Good things, and I mean REALLY good things, start to happen without explanation.

 

YES summons the power of Providence.  Yes initiates life because yes exists at the genesis of an energetic cycle that's bigger than you. It draws upon our interconnectedness and dynamic interdependence.  When you say yes, help shows up in the form of human resources and material support.

 

But... you'll never say yes if you're waiting for just the right circumstances or right time.  You won't say yes if you haven't first agreed to befriend the unknown in yourself and others.  You can't say yes if you're operating out of fear but rest assured that fear dissipates when you conquer duality by saying yes I can, yes I will, YES I AM!

 

The unconquerable force of YES is life itself.  It's the life that says yes back to you when you say yes to it.  Just as in my own life when almost 2 years ago I said yes to my intuition and then found myself in a powerfully nurturing and loving relationship as a result. At the time, I couldn't possibly know where that would have taken me. Consent need not be conditional. It need not depend on some predetermined or safe outcome.

 

I said yes to love and that love embraced me without limit.  And since that fateful day, when I agreed to the unspoken terms of a life I had yet to live, I’ve experienced massive growth and subsequent change.  I'm deeply in love with a man who I would have never thought existed before I met him and found out that he’s really real.  I'm living in a house that I could have never imagined would be my home and within me exists a new life, a new expression of my love for another and his for me.  Yes, I’ll be a mother for the second time this coming Spring. The timing is all wrong, the situation is so far from ideal that saying yes to motherhood right now is nothing short of a radical expression of my faith in the power of possibility.

 

Do I know how it's all going to work?  No.  Do I know where the perfect solution will come from?  No.  But I do know that it's not my job to know how, when or why. It IS my sacred obligation to give my unconditional yes and my unconditional love and to allow the conditions to be birthed of their own volition. I’m allowing my life and while that allowing may not be at all easy, I won’t be the one to stand in its way.

 

Juan Gris, author of Artist's Way, one said "You are lost the instant you know what the result will be."  

 

So, my challenge to you this week is quite simple. Begin to say yes, say it often, to the little things, then the bigger things. But say it loud and say it clear. Let me know what’s happening for you. I’d love to hear your story so drop me an email at [e-mail]

 

Please join me next time when I ask “Do you feel 100%?�

Until then, I leave you with abundant peace.