Book: Year of Yes, How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Author: Shonda Rhimes
Rating: 5/5, I LOVE this book!
Book Review:
Saying yes to everything is scary, it takes people out of their comfort zone. What would happen if you said yes to everything for an entire year? In Shonda Rhimes' memoir, Year of Yes. How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person, she does just that, challenging herself to say yes to everything for a year.
I was hooked from the very beginning. Rhimes separates herself from her achievements and learns to show love and compassion to herself simply for who she is as a person. Rhimes bares all as she details how saying yes for one year changed her life.
Some key takeaways:
Say YES to everything that scare you, step outside of your comfort zone
Say YES to your body and self-care, learn to relax and find time to play
Say YES to compliments and confidence, be yourself
Say YES to hard conversations and getting rid of toxic people in your life, surround yourself with real friendships
Say YES to saying NO, you can’t do it all yourself and ask for help when you need it
Some quotes I love:
“Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life.”
“Freedom lies across the field of a difficult conversation.”
“…happy whole people are drawn to happy who people, but nothing makes a toxic person more miserable and destructive than a happy, whole person”
“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”
“Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it. No fairy tales. Be your own narrator. And go for a happy ending. One foot in front of the other. You will make it.”
Rhimes lives up to her promise to show the world “how to dance it out, stand in the sun and be your own person” and the importance to love oneself first. While the “Year of Yes” helped Rhimes to come to terms with self-love, she suggests that every individual can devise a unique solution to accomplish the same goals.
This book has inspired my own journey of saying “YES to everything.”
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Have you read Shonda Rhimes' Year of Yes?
What were your lessons learned?
What have said yes to?
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