Maybe you have heard the word “No” so much in your life that you have never fully experienced the power of “Yes.” As children growing up, many of us heard “No” much more than we heard “Yes.” If this is the case, as we grew older, we told ourselves “No” more than we told ourselves “Yes.” “No,” highlights the negative and the consequences of taking the negative path.
Here in the United States, over thirty years ago, there was an anti-drug campaign which coined the phrase, “Just Say No.” I have no statistics to say whether the campaign was effective, however, I believe that somewhere along the way we have forgotten that with every prohibitive or “No”, there is an implicit “Yes.” If we do not have something that we are saying “Yes” to, at the same time we are saying “No” to something else, then we will say “Yes” to things for which we may not be consciously aware. As it has been said, “if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
Our future may depend on our “Yes” just as much as it does our “No.” When we discipline ourselves to say “Yes” to our goals and dreams in a positive, forward moving way, the negative path cannot draw or entice, us because our “Yes” becomes strong enough to keep us focused on the goal. In order to say “Yes” to something you must turn towards it and move positively in that direction, and I believe the opposite is true also. Let’s turn in a positive direction, affirm the possibilities before us, and choose to say “Yes” to something today that will prove that our “Yes” is just as powerful as our “No.” Just say, “Yes.”