Yes, Thank You

The secret to getting what you want (what the Law of Attraction isn't telling you)

Aug 22, 2024

Storytime

A decade ago, I committed to forcing myself to be okay with the incredibly awkward.

Let me explain.

I made the blanket decision to accept every single compliment and every single gift ever offered to me. Every. Single. Time.

Whenever someone offers me something, anything, EVER, I say “Yes, Thank You!”

Let me tell you, it’s been over ten years, and it’s still hard to do.

But so worth it!

It all started when my friend Laura invited me to breakfast at her house in Long Island, NY. I had packed my Prius for a road trip back to the Midwest, and she wanted to make sure I had a proper send off after spending a few weeks visiting various friends on the east coast.

She made a HUGE spread. Way more than necessary to feed the two of us. And WAY WAY more than my tiny little frame and appetite could handle. I ate like a king.

And then she packed it all up into three grocery bags and a cooler and put it in the back seat of my car.

What was I gonna do with 3 grocery bags of food on a 3 day road trip??? I knew that night I would be meeting a college friend in Cleveland, and we had dinner reservations. I knew that the next day, I would be hosted by a friend in Milwaukee for 3-days.

When I arrived in Milwaukee two days later, my hostess greeted me with a frantic look on her face. She gave me the keys to her house and said “I have an emergency to handle with my son in Madison. I don’t know when I’ll be back. I’m so sorry. I didn’t have time to go grocery shopping. There’s no food in the fridge.”

That day, I decided to never, EVER, turn down a gift again.

Laura’s gift of food fed and nourished me for three days.

Lesson

As I’ve said many times before, words are spells, so you have to be careful how you use them.

“Yes, Thank You!” is an abundance charm.

If you want to shift your world into one in which everything you need and want is provided to you, just start saying “yes, thank you” every single time you are given a gift, a compliment, an offering, or a blessing.

every. single. time.

The word YES! has the energy of riding a giant slide into a pool of fun-funs. It screams of JOY so much that some cultures even pronounce it with a jubilant J.

The phrase Thank You brings all the smiles and laughters and bubbles of gratitude with it. The energy of Thank You is like the feeling you get when you plunge into the pool (thank) and get to swim in the refreshing waters (you).

Thank You is a feedback loop, a boomerang of energy. The word Thank is the word of gratitude, and the word YOU gives a gift right back to the gift giver, the gift of appreciation.

Thank You is an infinity energy of gratitude, abundance, and joys.

When said with mindfulness and intention, Thank You ALWAYS reaps more happiness by all the givers and receivers.

6 facts about Walz's education track record in Minnesota | MPR News — MN Governor Tim Walz receiving Thank You from school children after he signed a law guaranteeing free school breakfast and lunch to all school children in the state.

Take-Away

Every single time your brush off, deny, decline, or downplay a compliment or gift or offer, you are telling the Universe that you really don’t want what you want. That message to Spirit gets really confusing.

The cool thing about Spirit (I call Her Giggle Bumps) is that she is darn persistent. She doesn’t give up. She keeps trying. and trying. and trying.

So when you do eventually say YES to Her, she will celebrate and go crazy with the abundances she has to offer!

I’ll admit, saying “yes, thank you” is still awkward and hard to do, even after a decade of practice. And, I promise you that when I say it, I feel abundant, and when I don’t say it, I feel scarcity.

What do you want? Abundance? or Scarcity? you pick.

“Yes, Thank You” will always reap abundance.

Resource

Here’s an AWESOME example of how accepting a compliment can change everything internally. Read it. Jeannie’s story of her daughter Sarah receiving a compliment is rare and precious.