Saturday afternoon I was feeling a bit discouraged and somewhat indifferent about an idea I have been carrying around in my passionate mind. The idea is based on making a significant contribution to thousands of individuals but it requires a few people’s ‘buy in’, and I had just come up against a closed door!

My mind started asking; Why not just let this go and get on with your life? Why focus any more time on this when there is so much else you can be creating? Why do you even care so much?! There is basically very little in it for you, so let it go!

And, I did… for about 2 hours…

Unbeknownst to me my husband had rented a movie called Yes Man for our movie night Saturday. It was the absolute right movie to watch in this moment in time, highly entertaining, and it also had a great message. Interesting how the right things just show up at the right time.

Yes Man is about this NO-guy who starts saying YES to each and every opportunity that presents itself… a bold shift indeed. And, it so happens that even highly questionable occurrences or opportunities start leading to great things happening in his life. All because he said YES!

The movie ended up being a ‘wake-me-up-with-a-hammer-to-my-head’ reminder of how much I wanted that YES!!! I really, really want this YES to creating what it is I want to create! That three letter world can change the lives of so many people, and can lead to so many good things which means that I have to say a big YES to the opportunity of bringing those no’s into solid, butterflies-in-your-tummy-excited, heartfelt YES’s!

A ‘no’ is just an opportunity for you to change your approach in getting to YES! So how do we get people to say YES to us? We help them see how saying YES will enrich their lives. That is all that is needed. Everyone wants to say YES to life! People want their lives to mean something; we are all here to make a contribution. Coming to a closed door simply meant that I had not been clear on the benefits; that I had not appealed to that person’s sense of contribution. I now have an opportunity to create a much clearer understanding of what I am proposing and offering.

So, I am thankful for that door not opening up right away. How else would I have gotten the opportunity to get even more creative in my approach?

I am so saying YES to this challenge and saying YES to life!