“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
~ K. Okakaura
One of the major things that tend to hold us back in our lives is resistance. We tend to over analyze situations so much that we end up only seeing what the negative would be and totally ignoring the positive. We, in a sense, resist living freely and choose to move more cautiously through life which only hinders us. Now while caution is, at times, a good thing, it closes the door to countless opportunities that may come your way in life that require you to throw caution to the wind. Sometimes we just need to step out on faith and say yes instead of no because if all we ever do is say no when opportunity knocks at our door then eventually opportunity will stop knocking.
Our spirits are always willing participants to new adventures and to opening new doors but sometimes we have to actually listen with our hearts instead of always letting our mind control everything. We can’t over think things and talk ourselves out of going for everything we can grab in life or else we’ll keep coming up with nothing. We have to sometimes do the things that we never thought we would do and go the places that we always said we would never go because somewhere in those things that we never do lies a possible opportunity that can take us to another level in life. We strive to move forward in life but moving forward involves allowing the move to happen and not resisting so much that you have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
We grow through our experiences in our lives but if we never say yes and allow ourselves to actually experience life then we don’t grow, we remain stunted. When I think about how many opportunities for growth that I have missed out on by being so resistant and unwilling to say yes and experience something foreign to me I start to have so many regrets about what could be and about where I could be in my life. But what’s done is done and I can’t change that but I can be more willing now. I have promised myself that for every time that I say no to something I will find three other times where I will say yes. I don’t want to miss out on my blessings because I was too afraid to say anything else but no. Life is too short for me to have to look back on what I’ve done in life and have to think I could’ve done so much more if I had just been more willing. After all what’s the worst that could happen?
Jimmetta Carpenter
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