day 6: the power of "yes"

hi again! i hope you've been enjoying the daily blogs! today's topic is all about the power of saying "yes".

saying "yes" to something can open up doors for you that you never knew existed before. now, i'm not talking about saying yes to everything like "Yes Day" (2021), which is a movie i'd recommend and you can find on Netflix, but i've watched it about 20 times because of my younger brother. i'm talking about the type of "yes" that encourages you to go out of your comfort zone to say yes to questions that you might not've before. 

saying yes can help you try new things, like trying olives, if you don't like them. i'm Turkish and my grandparents eat about 10 olives with their breakfast every morning, and swear that it is one of the main reasons that they are so healthy at the age of 86. though this is true, there's just something about olives that just disgust me. i cannot eat them. but again, since we're Turkish we always have olives in the house and once in a while, my parents will ask if i want to try one. most of the time i'll say no, but sometimes if i'm feeling a bit adventurous, i'll say yes and try one. i'm doing this because i'm trying to give olives a second, third, and fourth try before i form my ultimate opinion on it.

on the topic of olives, if anyone has watched How I Met Your Mother (2005), i want to share the olive theory!! this is way off the topic of the power of yes, BUT i just wanted to share for anyone who doesn't already know. basically, the olive theory is the theory that your soulmate will like the things that you don't. essentially, opposites attract. just like Lily, in How I Met Your Mother, i am obviously not a fan of olives. Marshall, on the other hand, did like olives, or so Lily thought. On their first date, she picked the olives out of her salad and he told her that he loved olives: hence, the olive theory. as it turns out, Marshall lied, and eventually admitted to not liking olives. even though this is true, Marshall and Lily are still soulmates. also, i thought it was a little funny that Barney also writes blogs, so this portion is dedicated to him. <33

circling back to the actual topic, saying yes can be hard and definately scary, especially when you are trying to say yes to something that you've previously closed off in your mind. by saying yes to new things, you will form new opinions and gain new experiences you've never had before. maybe you'll actually like the things you said yes to, and enjoy them, but you could also hate them and that's okay. 

in 2019, Will Smith posted a YouTube video about what skydiving taught him about fear. Smith explains that he was so scared the night before but after, he was so happy that he had done it. what I want you to take away from this video, even if you don't watch it, was that he said that "God placed the best things in life on the other side of fear."

some people get too comfortable in one spot and just stay there, but in order to grow and explore new things, you must take that leap outside of your comfort zone. don't get me wrong, if there is something that you absolutely don't want to do, please, don't take this as me encouraging you to do that. all i'm saying is that sometimes it's really good to get outside that comfort zone and do something that makes you uncomfortable. you could possibly find that you like this new thing better than the old one.

on that note, thank you for reading today's post. i hope you enjoyed and choose to take something out of it and apply it to your life. have a fantastic rest of your day from whatever part of the world you tune in from! catch ya on the next one!

don't wish for it, work for it.