An INNER YES!

YES. NO.

 

Once I sat in on a graduate course on Future Design at the college where I teach communication. It was a pleasure to simply sit back and ride. Nothing to prepare or present. I only had to show up. 

 

All morning long, and at every turn I found myself saying some variation of “Thisss I like!” or “ThisssI don’t like!”, which is how ‘Yes’ and ‘No' often play out in"the real world."

 

We humans do this all-the-live-long day. In fact, we may have been hired for our strategic assessments of 'what works’ or what needs changing. And how this ‘ Yes’ and ‘No’ manifests is central to decisions to whether we: 

 

Jump ship on this project? 

Make the ask? 

Swipe right?

Swipe left?

 

So it’s an endless loop: "Yaaay to may to my dog!”, "Naaay! The work isn’t ready!”, "Yay! Going for a run!" 

"Nay! Traffic!”. 

 

Who would've thought a simple binary choice could shape our lives so profoundly?

It’s impressive how it can run our lives unless we run it!