Yes

On an earlier post I mentioned a story I once heard in "The Compleat Beatles" documentary about how John Lennon first met Yoko Ono. John Lennon is in an art gallery in London and there's a white ladder in the exhibit. He climbs the ladder and looks through a magnifying glass to discover blocked letters under a framed sheet of glass that simply says "Yes." In the documentary, John Lennon mentions how positive and powerful it was to read that word. Yoko Ono is the artist behind the exhibit, and of course the rest is history...

Witnessing a 'yes' is pretty powerful stuff. Last night I saw a friend of mine who had just come from a job interview, and had 'yes' all over her face! She's been at her job for several years, and has been interviewing (and received job offers) for a few months. The most recent one she turned down was, on the surface, an exciting, prestigious and glamorous sounding opportunity. However, she really felt unsettled about it.

It takes courage to say no to something that, to others, seems like the natural next step. And when you're slogging through the tundra of vague 'Just doesn't feel right' and the many in between days of change, you just start to question yourself, and possibly lose faith in big doors really opening. You begin to wonder if listening to your heart is really such a wise thing to do after all as you stare into the abyss.

Amazing how the months of 'no' turns around in an instant when you finally recognize the yes!