Put a bit more YES into your life!

After an extremely busy week with not much sleep and a cold that wouldn’t seem to disappear, I used the bank holiday yesterday to just chill and do nothing. It was raining outside and I hadn’t watched a movie for ages, so we decided to watch Yesman. I am not a Jim Carey fan in particular and to be honest, I don’t even like comedies that much. I prefer movies with a message, movies that make you think such as American History X, or Pay it forward but this comedy was worth watching.

Jim Carey plays Carl Allen, a standstill with a boring life and no future, until the day he enrolls into a personal development program based on a very simple idea: say yes to everything! He sees his professional and romantic life turned upside down overnight.

Yesman isn’t a great movie, and it doesn’t tell us a story that hasn’t been told a million times before, but the overall message it’s trying to convey is nothing but true: you have to be open to new opportunities to be able to get the most out of life!

I know people that live an “ordinary” life: the guy who just turned 50 and claims he’s too old to get on Facebook, the teenager who has never traveled, the school friend who can only talk about the amount of ironing and cleaning she needs to do every day, the man with the ice cream van who’s been standing on the same street corner for 30 years, …

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging the ordinary (although it scares the hell out of me to be ordinary) and I can understand how people are happy with their daily routine and with sticking to things they’re familiar with.

The people I am talking about here are unhappy. They do the same thing day in day out, make up excuses to try out new things and complain about how sad they’ve become. And why are they sad? Because they get so locked up in their little world and everything else scares them. They don’t take opportunities, they don’t even see them as they are passing by.

We should all use the word YES a bit more in our lives.  I am not talking about extremes like quitting your job to become a humanitarian worker or jumping out of a plane. Just meet some new faces, start a course, go to a place you’ve never been…

There are so many opportunities out there, waiting to be grabbed with both hands, you’ll see!

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