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How many times have you had a really great idea or what you thought was a great idea and then talked yourself out of it, or had someone else talk you out of it and later on regretted it? This has happened to all of us. It could be something as simple as planning to do something on the weekend and then finding out later, you missed out on something pretty neat. It could be you have had an idea to change something at work and then one of your co-workers made the same changes and got the credit. It could be you have had a great idea for some new invention and then shortly thereafter, you see the same thing in the market. Push Yourself Beyond the Point of Saying NO! We are all full of great ideas. In fact the average person has somewhere between 35 and 48 thoughts per minute or almost one per second. With this many thoughts going through your heads, you could agree the odds are you have had incredible ideas. So if you have all of these great ideas, then you might ask yourself, “why don’t I feel like I am getting anywhere?” The answer is in the little word “no”. “No” is such a small and seemingly insignificant word and yet it has a whole lot of meaning packed into those two little letters. It is one of the first words we learn as children. It is the word our parents used when we were little to keep us out of harm’s way, it is the word (or variations of the word) that tells us whether we have learned to do something correctly or not. We are conditioned to naturally search for the “no” because in it, it unconsciously represents safety. Now let’s look at “yes” for a minute. While we understand that “yes” is only one more letter, in fact it means much more. When we hear “yes” to something we are doing, it immediately brings in possibility. It is the thing we heard, when we asked to go to a party or when we got to buy a new toy. To hear “yes”, it not only affirms you, it also requires you or allows you to do something different. Hearing “yes” can be great when you are confident about what you want to do, although at the same time, hearing or saying “yes” when you are less certain, can be pretty scary. Whether we like to admit it or not, hearing “no” can be a little more comfortable because generally it means nothing is really going to change. You are not going to have to do or be anything more than you are right now. Many especially like it if they can blame someone else for saying “no”, although “no” also doesn’t get most people, companies or organizations very far. If you want to create something different and I mean really want to create, be or do something different, then think about saying “yes”. Recognize that saying “yes” can be a little scary. It could mean that you need to do something different. It could mean that you experience something you have never done before. It might mean you meet people you have never met before. However at the same time, it will engage your brain and thinking in a new way, so that you capitalize on the ideas, I know you have always had.
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