{"id":11536,"date":"2019-08-19T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2019-08-19T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T04:43:48","slug":"give-people-a-reason-not-to-forget-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/give-people-a-reason-not-to-forget-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Give People A Reason Not To Forget You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I traveled up to Utah State University in Logan Utah\nto give the keynote speech to several hundred incoming freshman students to\nkick-off Orientation.  The event was held\nin a big auditorium and the students filed into the auditorium in their\ndifferent orientation groups.  As the\nprogram began the emcee let everyone know he needed to take roll to make sure\neach group had arrived and he began calling out each group by number.  As he would call out each group number,\nsections students would respond by hooting and hollering at the top of their\nlungs with each group attempting to outdo the last in the loudness of their\ncheers.  Their enthusiasm was awesome and\nextremely energizing, which was helpful given that I\u2019d just returned from a\nlong trip and had woken up at 5am to make the long drive up to campus.  But one of the groups, when their number was\ncalled, didn\u2019t just hoot and holler – they jumped out of their seats and threw\ntheir hands in the air doing the wave through their group.  Guess which group stood out the most to me\ntoday?  That\u2019s right\u2026the group that had\ngone out of their way to be memorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you want to stand\nout from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you.\u201d  – Richard Branson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group two had given me a reason not to forget them, and the\nfact that I\u2019m writing a blog about them tonight tells you that their wave made\nthem extra memorable. They set their inhibitions aside and sent out of their\nway to stand out from the crowd today, which was quite an accomplishment because\nall of those USU Aggies had amazing energy and a ton of school spirit which\nmakes me love them all!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who are willing to go outside their comfort zone and\nthrow inhibitions aside and put themselves out there are AWESOME! They are the\npeople you can\u2019t forget. They are the people who stand out in a crowd.  Think about it \u2013 it\u2019s never the person acting too\ncool for school that\u2019s memorable \u2013 it\u2019s the person who lets their hair down and\ngoes all in without caring a lick about looking silly that gets noticed and remembered.\nIt\u2019s the person who jumps out of their seat and does the wave, or the person who\nbounds onto the dance floor busting out any moves they can (even if they are\nawful at dancing), or the person who is willing to be brave even when they aren\u2019t\nfeeling confident\u2026.those are the people we all remember.  Those are the people who stand out to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can tell you from my experience as a CEO that it\u2019s the people\nstand out that are far more likely to stay standing in a company.  As CEO I always took notice of those who went\nall out in dressing up for Halloween, and those people who were willing to try\neven when they weren\u2019t good at something. I noticed the people who didn\u2019t just\nparticipate, but who made it fun for everyone else to participate too.  Those kind of people are the ones you always\nwant to keep around.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be memorable.\u00a0 Be uninhibited. Be silly. Be FUN!\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Rees Anderson speaking at Utah State University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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