The Power of Saying Yes

by Guillermo Vidal | May 1, 2019 | Aging Successfully, Life, Life Lessons, Self Fulfillment, Spirituality, Uncategorized

It is important in life to take risks and explore new ways of thinking and feeling. This is especially true when you are beginning on a new leg on your life journey. During these kinds of life periods, I adopted a policy of saying “yes” to all invitations. I call this doing the Desperado, a name I confiscated from my friend Suzanne who uses it to describe saying yes to everything.

I have grown fond of doing the Desperado. It is an acknowledgement that the universe is opening doors for me and I don’t need to force things to happen. Saying yes to everything is freeing, motivating, stimulating and very fulfilling. Now, you don’t have to be an idiot about it and do things you are certain you will not enjoy. For example, I’m not going skydiving if I am invited, I have not yet found a reasonable justification for jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. But that is me. If skydiving is reasonable for you, then should do it. Maybe I should have picked something more morose to illustrate the point like being invited to go to a cannibalism party. The point is to do something new, but it doesn’t need to be something that you are going to dread.

Don’t say yes out of guilt either. Guilt is not a good motivator. doing things out of guilt is a…