{"id":11571,"date":"2019-08-28T23:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11571"},"modified":"2019-08-28T23:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:44:37","slug":"when-you-are-busy-doing-good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/when-you-are-busy-doing-good-things\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Are Busy Doing Good Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What a whirlwind of day today was!\u00a0 My day began at a board meeting with the amazing Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne for her Amar Foundation www.amarfoundation.org<\/a> which is an award winning charity that works in the Middle East helping improve the lives and livelihoods of some of the world\u2019s poorest and most disadvantaged people. \u00a0The Baroness also serves in the British House of Lords. She is an amazing woman who spends all of her time and energy helping the underserved and it is an honor for me to serve on the board with her and the other amazing board members she has assembled. Here’s a fun pic from that meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baroness Emma Nicholson and Amy Rees Anderson with Amar Board Members<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next I was off to give a keynote speech to the faculty and staff\nof BYU\u2019s College of Nursing at their semester kick-off conference.  They are a truly amazing group of people who\nhave an impact on the lives of so many with the work they do teaching nursing\nto students. Every nurse they train will go on to touch the lives of so many\npeople through their work.  I shared with\nthem how my heart is really tender toward those in the nursing profession this\nyear as I have spent a tremendous amount of my time this year in hospitals\nstarting with my grandbaby when he became terribly ill back in January and then\nback again in February when he became ill again and had to have a procedure\ndone. Next we were in the hospital with my father-in-law when he injured his\nspine and had to have surgery. And then finally we were in the hospital when my\nsecond grandbaby was born. I shared how meaningful the nurses were who helped\nus through each of those hospital stays and how those nurses were such a strength\nto us \u2013 not just physically by caring for our loved ones, but emotionally as\nthey offered kindness and empathy at a time we desperately needed emotional support.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny story about my talk \u2013 I needed someone to take photos of\nmy speech today so I asked my husband if he wouldn\u2019t mind coming with me to\nsnap some pictures while I was giving my talk. \nHe said he\u2019d be happy to do it so we headed up to the resort where the\nevent was being held. After we left the event I asked to see the photos he\u2019d\ntaken.  He looked at me with a blank\nstare and said, \u201cOh darn! I totally forgot to take pictures.\u201d His sole purpose\nin coming today was literally to take those pictures\u2026.All I could say was, \u201cONE\nJOB!!! YOU HAD ONE JOB!!!!… Yet why is it I am fairly certain every wife out\nthere has felt my pain \u2026.  #husbandwoes  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following my talk I had to jump on a conference call to finalize\nan agenda for a University board meeting I am in charge of next week and I went\nright from that to Grandma babysitting duty so I fed my grandson dinner and\nthen ran him to his Aunt\u2019s house to have her help cover for me so I could run\nup to a reception for the AMAR Foundation tonight. I walked in the door of my\nhome finally just moments ago and all I can think about is finishing this blog\nso I can climb into bed and let my head hit the pillow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lesson I took from today is this \u2013 When you are busy doing good things you don\u2019t have time to worry or fret or feel anxious about anything\u2026you only have time to do those good things you are doing\u2026.there is something incredibly awesome about that\u2026<\/p>\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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