Our lives are filled with a series of choices. With each, you have a chance to say “yes” or “no”.
· Life’s decisions are
· Mostly ours alone to make.
· We each must face those choices
· With open hearts and minds, and hope.
Interestingly, either choice we make is a “yes”, as in “yes I will” or “yes I won’t”. Looked at that way, our choices are always definitive and positive. As a long-time HR professional, I know the work that goes into someone deciding whether to accept a new job… or to accept that they’re not going to accept that new job. There isn’t a ‘no’ in that decision, only a ‘yes’ to considering options or moving forward in a certain direction. The same can be said when coaching is applied to performance and behavior issues at work – the goal of the coach is to help the person being coached not to belabor the situation under discussion, but to say ‘yes’ to improving in the future; often, just getting them talking about it is a ‘yes’. Or asking an employee to participate in a project – focusing on the positive aspects and expected results is the quickest and best way to get someone to say ‘yes’; actually, agreeing to consider it is a ‘yes’. There are countless examples of choices any of us get to make each day and it all begins with a ‘yes’. Our job as friends or supervisors is to help others analyze and understand their choices and then celebrate the ones they get engaged with or say ‘yes’ to today.
Clarice Lispector (1920 – 1977): Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer.
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