{"id":10742,"date":"2019-03-13T23:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2019-03-13T23:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:54:23","slug":"if-anything-is-worth-doing-do-it-with-all-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/if-anything-is-worth-doing-do-it-with-all-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"If Anything Is Worth Doing, Do It With All Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf Anything Is Worth Doing, Do It With All Your Heart.\u201d<\/span> – Buddha<\/p>\n

That advice in Buddha\u2019s quote has been both a blessing and a curse in my life. It\u2019s a blessing in that I have followed it religiously \u2013 if I do something I give it 100% and then some. I jump in fully and give it every ounce of what I\u2019ve got. It\u2019s a curse in that I am incapable of taking something on and then not giving it everything I\u2019ve got, which can often become all-consuming and cause me to forgo having any \u201cme\u201d time in order to give everything to the causes or people I am trying to help.<\/p>\n

The older I get the more I am realizing that the problem isn\u2019t that I give all I\u2019ve got to things \u2013 that\u2019s actually a huge positive that has helped me be incredibly successful in many ways – the negative is that in knowing I give it all I\u2019ve got I need to force myself to limit the number of things I agree to take on if I am ever going to have any kind of a life of my own. And that is hard for me to do.<\/p>\n

That’s because I get so darn excited to help people and I love helping a good cause. But my downfall is that I forget to consider the fact that when we agree to jump into \u201cX\u201d we are also agreeing to take time away from \u201cY\u201d because we are one person with so many hours in a day. So whether \u201cY\u201d ends up being sleep, or time for ourselves, or time with our spouse, or time with our kids or grandkids or friends, \u201dX\u201d will always come at a cost to \u201cY\u201d so it’s critical to stop and really think through that trade-off and weigh it out carefully BEFORE we commit to take on more \u201cX\u201ds in our lives.<\/p>\n

I will fully admit that I\u2019ve never been good at thinking through what the impact to \u201cY\u201d will be especially when \u201cX\u201d is a really worthy cause. My first thought always jumps to \u201cI can go without sleep or food to make time\u201d or \u201cI can forgo any me time and get it done\u201d and often that’s exactly what I end up doing…but the older and wiser I get the more I recognize that is not the best mindset for me to keep having.\u00a0 We all need sleep, and food, and a little time for ourselves once in awhile. And maybe if I repeat that last sentence out loud to myself 100 times in a row I can get myself to remember that BEFORE I agree to take on another “X”…sigh…<\/p>\n

Whatever you take on, do it with all your heart, but limit what you agree to take on so there’s room to show yourself a little love as well.<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (you can purchase a copy of my new book here: “What AWESOME Looks Like: How To Excel In Business & Life<\/a>“)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf Anything Is Worth Doing, Do It With All Your Heart.\u201d – Buddha That advice in Buddha\u2019s quote has been both a blessing and a curse in my life. It\u2019s a blessing in that I have followed it religiously \u2013 if I do something I give it 100% and then some. I jump in fully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,20624,20617,820,20616,20620,218,17863,20618,18639,19929,20621,407,134,20625,7558,149,20619,8537,17857,54,20626,20622,20623,19932,14432,20627,6770],"class_list":["post-10742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-are-you-giving-the-best-to-those-who-matter-most","tag-blessing-and-curse","tag-buddha","tag-do-it-with-all-your-heart","tag-downfall","tag-failure","tag-family-matters","tag-forgo-me-time","tag-good-better-best","tag-how-to-excel-in-business-and-life","tag-limit-what-you-take-on","tag-overwhelmed","tag-perspective","tag-show-yourself-a-little-love","tag-stressed-out","tag-success","tag-take-care-of-your-needs","tag-time-away","tag-time-for-yourself","tag-time-management","tag-too-much-on-your-plate","tag-tradeoffs","tag-weigh-it-out-carefully","tag-what-awesome-looks-like","tag-what-matters-most","tag-what-will-you-remember","tag-work-life-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10744,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10742\/revisions\/10744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}