{"id":11644,"date":"2019-09-15T22:59:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2019-09-15T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:00:30","slug":"if-id-given-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/if-id-given-up\/","title":{"rendered":"If I’d Given Up…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Friday I was humbled to receive the Leadership in\nBusiness Award from the YWCA for my business accomplishments and the work I do championing\nwomen and girls through my foundation (the IPOP Foundation).  They put on a beautiful event of around 1,200\nattendees Friday and I told them it was the sweetest way to kick-off my\nbirthday weekend.  The YWCA does so much\nto support women and girls and it was truly an honor to be recognized by their\norganization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My birthday on Saturday was wonderful because I got to wake\nup with my entire family under my roof as my kids and grandkids all spent the\nnight Friday night so we could all wake up and have breakfast together. I loved\nwaking up Saturday morning to the sound of my sweet grandson Flynn calling out \u201cGrandma\u2026Grandma\u2026Grandma!\u201d\nWe ate a great breakfast, lounged around a bit, and then we played a rousing\ngame of Call of Duty on the Xbox against each other while the grandbabies took naps.  At dinner we headed to my favorite restaurant\nSettabello for wood-fire pizzas and gelato. Then we headed to the Utah State\nFairgrounds to attend the Demolition Derby\/ \nNow I know many of you are probably thinking I don\u2019t seem much like a\ndemolition derby type of girl, but let me tell you \u2013 I actually love demolition\nderbys! And while I may not have made that my first choice for celebrating my\nbirthday in the past, I chose it this year because my cute little Grandson Flynn\nabsolutely loves watching the cars crash into each other and nothing makes me\nhappier than watching him happy – so demolition derby it was!  My husband was cute enough to win me a stuffed\ncow from the fair after the derby which is especially cute since he grew up on\na dairy farm. All In all it was a perfect 48th<\/sup> birthday and I couldn\u2019t\nhave asked for more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that having my whole family with me for the entire\nday was the best birthday present of all. Family is the thing I treasure most\nand the older I get the deeper I appreciate how special getting time together\nis.  Especially now that my kids are\ngrown and have families of their own, and work full-time jobs, and have other responsibilities\nto shoulder, as well as them having their other families in-law they need to split\ntime with \u2013 time with all of us together has become a precious gift.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve learned a lot over the last 47 years\u2026more than I could\never imagine having learned. Most of those lessons I learned were accompanied\nby mistakes and heartaches and hurts of one sort or another. But those typically\nare life\u2019s greatest teachers, aren\u2019t they. \nThe hard times we go through.  In\nmy acceptance speech at the YWCA awards event I shared a quote that\u2019s gotten me\nthrough those hard times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will all be okay\nin the end. If it\u2019s not okay, it\u2019s not the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m grateful I\u2019ve hung in there over the years during each time of trial (and there have been a lot) because that quote is right \u2013 they weren\u2019t the end \u2013 and if at any point I\u2019d given up over the years I wouldn\u2019t have been at my 48th<\/sup> birthday party this weekend surrounded by my amazing family and holding two sweet grandbabies in my lap\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never give up. <\/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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