Yes, BUT... really means NO!

I am lucky.  In my work as a Spiritual Intuitive Life Coach, I have the opportunity to learn as I teach and guide.  One thing that I have observed over these many years, through more scenarios than I could possibly imagine, is that people often come for help or assistance in healing an aspect of their lives without the one thing they need...willingness!  It seems a contradiction, yet we all do it.  I want to lose weight, so I'm going to exercise five times a week.  The intention is set, or so it seems.  Yet, this is when the BUT comes into play.  Yes, I want to be healthy and lose, but I'm too tired to
exercise tonight.  I'll start tomorrow.  Yes, I want to find a way to stop the senseless arguments with my spouse, but I'm right and he's wrong!  Yes, I want to have a better relationship with my mother, but she doesn't listen to me and just starts screaming.  Yes, I want to earn more money, but the economy is depressed right now. Yes, I want to be more present to the now instead of always being stuck in the past, but damn it, he said, she did, they were...  The list is endless, endless excuses.

I started thinking more about this today when my daughter came home talking about her history class.  They are studying the period of American history that included successful businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison and later Henry Ford.  These men were successful because they understood the power of YES! They also had what Napoleon Hill later described in his famous, Think and Grow Rich, as a burning desire.  This is not a wish or a hope, but determination. You don't have to know the how, just the what.  Edwin C. Barnes didn't know how he was going to be a partner of and work with Thomas Edison, he just knew and never strayed from his desire. Five years after joining the company his opportunity arrived and he did indeed work with Edison!  Henry Ford didn't know how to make an eight cylinder engine he just knew that is what he wanted and never allowed anyone on his team to say, "Yes, but..."  We all know how that turned out.

A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot be totally committed sometimes."  This is one of the reasons I began this blog.  I realized that there are areas of my life that I say, "Yes, but..."  Think about it.  Where does the "Yes, but..." fall in your life.  What are you willing to do to simply say, YES!  The choice is yours.

Remember:

Yes + But = NO