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Home › Articles › Healthy Woman › Everything – Yes, Everything – Is a Gift

Everything – Yes, Everything – Is a Gift

8 Ways to Start Believing It

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exploded in flight, killing all seven astronauts on board, Roberts found himself saying, "Man, what a great way to die." Will you die doing what you love the most? Well, only if you live that way. So decide what you want most in life – deeply, passionately and completely – and write it down. (A study at Ford Motor Company suggests that people who have substantial goals and write them down are 85 percent more successful than the rest of us.) "Whether I slip on a banana peel at the edge of the Grand Canyon or get eaten by a boa constrictor (Whadaya know, it's nibblin' my toe. Oh gee, it's up to my knee...), I'll be doing what I love most: becoming who I truly am," writes Roberts. "The universe is sneaky. I can't have the death I want without having the life I want."

  • Learn what it means to say "Yess!" to life. (And don't mind the alligators.) "Yess!" appears on Roberts's vanity license plate. To him, it is the single most potent word in all of language. It means to live from your heart or die trying. "Only when we say 'Yess!' to the astonishing array of possibilities inherent in whatever our moments present do we tap into ourselves at our best," he writes. "Of course, it's not the easiest choice to make, because the 'Yess!' I'm talking about comes only from our heart, the voice of our true self that unerringly leads us in the direction of kindness, even though the route may more than occasionally oblige us to tiptoe across a carpet of alligators before jumping off a cliff." Ahh, yes (Yess!), those pesky alligators. They are our reminder that pursuing an authentic, fully present life doesn't allow much time for nas. They are the price of admission to a life of abundance. With disarming honesty, Roberts shares his own struggles related to living in a way that serves his heart's most insistent desires.

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