Year of Yes - update

Update 1...

It is just a week into the Year of Yes. Too soon to consider it either a success or failure. Yet worth considering since it's so easy to let resolutions drop by the wayside over time.

The idea of saying "yes" to things has somehow, magically perhaps, stayed at the front of my awareness. I've gone through with things that I previously might have made excuses to avoid and - perhaps more importantly - I've acted on ideas that I had that involved reaching out to friends. In the past I wouldn't so much have avoided these things, but deferred them to a "more convenient" or "more appropriate" time. And I've also done business things that I would have worried about doing - might this be seen as intrusive, or phrased poorly or, or, or - anything that you could possibly think of that would stand in the way of simply doing something and seeing where the chips fell.

All of this is of a piece. The common thread is that I've avoided things when I couldn't see how to control the outcome. Silly really. Outcomes are rarely controllable. Predictable sometimes, but truly controllable, rarely if ever.

This Year of Yes, rather than being a struggle, has been strangely liberating. Unspooling the even unconscious vestige of perfection that has been so confounding, so binding, so downright unpleasant making. It's only a week, but it's been a good one.

Onward.