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Welcome to another post in the Supernatural Underground Backlist Series. Today's feature is from May 2014 by the wonderful author Amanda Arista. This journey may be about heroes, but we think it might apply to us all!
What have you said YES to recently?
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I'll have what she's having: The Art of the YES
I've been looking forward to writing this particular step of the Year of Living Heroically and I am so very glad that it fell in this month.
In YLH #2- I talked about saying 'no' and why it was really all about
fear. We refuse the call of adventure because it scares us or we don't
feel that we are good enough.
So this time, I get to talk about saying YES, and the power that it holds.
When
a hero crosses the threshold of their story, they are actively choosing
to go on an adventure, do something completely new, or just face what
they have been avoiding their whole lives. They have met a mentor who
has empowered them or shown them that its not as scary as they think. So
they say YES and they start on their adventure. Everything is new and
shiny once they say YES. Like a baby starting off in the special world.
I think we can think of Dorothy putting her first step on the yellow
brick road as a good metaphor as to how to say YES. Saying yes is a
first step in a longer journey, but your on the road now and you can't
go back.
Just saying YES is empowering. There a certain freedom that comes with
shedding off that fear and embracing something totally and
wholeheartedly. The saying YES changes you as well.
Some little questions that change everything in a big way by just answering:
Wanna grab some coffee some time?
Would you like to come work for us?
Will you marry me?
Want to have a baby . . .
Read the entire post here: I'll have what she's having: The Art of the YES
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Find out more about Amanda Arista
Author, Diaries of an Urban Panther
www.amandaarista.com
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