saying yes

"where you invest your love, you invest your life" 
- mumford and sons

When you take away all the nonsense and white noise of the largely commercially driven holiday Valentines Day, it's actually a wonderful opportunity to sit with yourself and reflect. What do you love about your life? Not just who, but what? What are you subscribing to emotionally and in simpler terms what are you saying 'yes' to?  Everyone's saying yes to something, whether you're cognizant of that or not, we all state our own value by what and who we say 'yes' to. The type of quality experience we are engaging in daily directly determines how we will feel about our own life and in essence how we feel about ourselves.

This was the first Valentines Day that I have been single in probably 9 years. Let me tell you I was prepared for it to be a DOOZY. Filled with enough chocolate goods to put me in a severe sugar coma, boxes of Kleenex and quite frankly booze drenched {okay fine, honest time, it was a little booze drenched towards the end of the day}. Instead I spent the morning in my new apartment alone and looking at what I have left after such a transformative 6 months.

I sat down and looked at it all, the good, the bad, the ugly and the down right surprising. As self indulgent as this sounds what I was left with was an overwhelming feeling of gratitude.  Not only did I survive the greatest heartbreak I've ever known, but I might just be better off because of it.  I now have a greater understanding of the type of quality experiences that I want for my life.  Every new day brings with it the ability for me to redefine what I want my world to look like, all simply by what I say 'yes' to.

So in honor of that, I'm going to start one day per week on my blog dedicated to saying yes. After all, how do you know what to give the nod of approval to if you don't know what you want your life to look like? When you can define what it is that you want, all of the things, people and nonsense falls away, as there's no room for it when you're standing so strongly within your own integrity. 

So, my beautifully, supportive, dear readers, that's what I'm asking you to be aware of today. Take two minutes to remove all of the 'white noise' and examine your life. What are you saying 'yes' to and more importantly do you want to be saying 'yes' to it?

These amazing images are from the uber talented photographer Jennifer Causey and I'm saying yes to all of it!

xo tash

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