So I'm getting in the car to go to my boyfriend's last high school band concert, and I'm completely freaking out about my "Week of Change" project. My basic train of though was "I suck, I'm so unoriginal, my teacher is going to think I am stupid,"etc. All of a sudden I have a flashback to last year when my best friend Kathryn was having the exact same problem and I remember a suggestion a gave to her: saying yes to everything for an entire week. It would sound like a total and complete nightmare to a sane person, but for me it sounded like I was going to get to channel my inner Jim Carrey for a week (i.e. his movie "Yes Man circa 2008). I knew if I was going to undertake my "week of yes," I was going to have to set up some ground rules because the second I told my boyfriend, Sean, he was already thinking of ways to abuse it (nothing inappropriate,of course, I only date gentlemen).
My Ground Rules:
1. Nothing illegal (I'm not trying to get arrested)
2. Nothing that would be a risk to me health (because no)
3. Nothing that would make me compromise my self-respect/morals (People suck and something breaching this rule would totally come up)
4. Nothing that negates something I have already agreed to (because otherwise my life could get very complicated very fast)
The goal of this endeavor is to see how much I miss out on a week because I say no to opportunities and to see how far the people that know about my "week of yes" take their requests. I've taken AP Psych and know a little bit about how power affects people, so I want to see if that holds true for people that I am relatively close to. No matter what the out come it should be an interesting week.
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