As Heard by Shannon Goodberry

I want to continue with another piece I heard during last weekend’s presentation.  Goodberry shared how she was able to create freedom in her life because she finally said yes to a business opportunity, specifically with our company. She looked back and acknowledged what her life has become and what was made possible through saying yes and committing. I ended yesterday’s piece talking about committing and it’s important because once we decide, the universe can put things in motion, and a yes is a decision. In this case, Goodberry wasn’t just talking of financial freedom, she was talking about the overall release that happens when we align with who we are.  We move differently when we are in the flow of our lives, and sometimes all it takes is a yes.  I think of the times I’ve said yes and the impact on my life today.  When I said yes to a job (any of them), when I said yes to go out with my friend that night she wanted interference, when I said yes to my new home, yes to having a child, yes to pursuing my writing.  All of these things have created this beautiful, chaotic, brew that is my life—respectively it created the roller coaster of work, I met my husband, I love my house, I have an amazing son, I feel free when I’m writing.  I’m still navigating a few of those “yeses” but I understand each yes was a different possibility that opened up.

Had I done any one of those things differently, this wouldn’t be my life and it is the same for any of us.  Had I not said yes to going out with my friend that night, I literally would not have met my husband—or at the very least I wouldn’t have had THAT particular interaction with him which means I wouldn’t have my son or my home and I may not even have the job I do.  The mind can really go on a tangent with this and if we aren’t careful it can open the door to regret, but I want to acknowledge and focus on the power of yes rather than what we miss.  When we focus on the absence of something, we often forget to look at the presence of everything else—including ourselves.  The truth is we never know what we miss when we say yes because there is no real way of knowing what would have happened any other way.   There was a time when daydreaming and fantasy ran wild in my mind and it would teeter awfully close to regret—or I would feel the desire so much that it hurt when it wasn’t reality. Manifestation isn’t the same as holding tightly to a vision—it is being specific and dedicated while allowing at the same time.  The more we align with who we are the more we are able to say yes and the more we say yes (make those decisions) the more we know who we are.    

When we think of the moments that have changed because of a little word, we see the impact and how great it can be to simply take a chance.  We can’t be aware of all the possible outcomes that come from allowing, but the reality is it that little word can be the doorway to massive change in our lives.  What has happened in our lives because we said yes?  Each of us are here because someone said yes.  We get what we need when we say yes.  It may not come in the way we think, but we certainly get a result.  It’s a choice.  I spent a good majority of my life thinking I knew the course of my life better than anyone else or any other being.  I spent time proving that I knew things better, that I could do better than those around me.  When we spend our time pointing out everything that’s going wrong we miss what’s going right or the possibility of what can go right from a different path.  So instead of focusing on right or wrong, focus on where we are at and what each yes can bring because each one of those little three letter words is a new opportunity.