{"id":436,"date":"2012-09-05T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:38:15","slug":"i-am-an-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/i-am-an-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an Entrepreneur!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSome people want it to happen, some wish it would happen and others make it happen\u201d \u2013 Michael Jordan<\/p>\n

Today was a great day.\u00a0 I was able to go down to BYU to speak to the students involved in the Women\u2019s Entrepreneurship program at BYU.\u00a0 First, let me say how much you feel your age when you walk on stage to speak and realize that you are old enough to be these girls mother!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Just when I was trying to convince myself that I am really not that old\u2026.dang!<\/p>\n

The girls were absolutely darling.\u00a0 So were the four of five young men attending the event (and might I say\u2026nicely played boys \ud83d\ude09 ).\u00a0 What a great group it was today.\u00a0 I was really impressed by the caliber of young women I met. \u00a0\u00a0And it makes me so happy to see more girls getting involved in entrepreneurship today.\u00a0 I honestly can\u2019t think of a better choice for young women today than Entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Being an entrepreneur gives them a million choices on what business to create:\u00a0 whether to do a home-based business where they can run a company while staying home with their children, or whether to build a huge enterprise where they employee thousands of people \u2013 the choice is totally open to them to go in whatever direction they choose.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes it so exciting and so rewarding as a career choice.<\/p>\n

I cannot stress enough how important I think it is for young women to get their education and to have a plan for how to support both themselves and their families.\u00a0 Back when I was these girls age my limited view of life made me think that I should just focus on getting married and having kids and letting my husband take care of me \u2013 well that was a TERRIBLE plan and if I ever hear young girls mimic my plan I immediately jump in to try and save them from themselves!\u00a0\u00a0 Look I am a huge advocate of motherhood and I think mothers that get to stay home and be full-time moms to their kids are the luckiest women in the world. \u00a0But can any girl expect that to be available to them or even plan that to be available to them \u2013 HECK NO!\u00a0\u00a0 I will share with you what I have told my daughter since she was old enough to listen \u2013 you plan your life as if you will be supporting yourself and your family all by yourself, and if it works out that you are blessed enough to not have to support your family then you count your blessings and still have your plan and skills ready to go at a moment\u2019s notice to be able to support a family on your own, because nothing in life is certain, and you had better be fully prepared to be the sole supporter.<\/p>\n

I feel so lucky that I choose to be an Entrepreneur.\u00a0 Sure it has been an incredibly challenging lifestyle to live – balance is a constant struggle for every entrepreneur – but I have learned more amazing lessons by my trying and failing and trying and failing an trying and failing and continuing to get back up and keep moving forward than I could have learned in any other way of life.<\/p>\n

I saw a great quote today on Entrepreneurship.\u00a0 It read:<\/p>\n

\u201cEntrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won\u2019t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most be can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a lot of truth to that quote. \u00a0You will work your guts out more than anyone could ever prepare you for.\u00a0 You will take more bumps and bruises and more scrapes and cuts then there are Band-Aids to cover them.\u00a0 Your failures are seen by many and your efforts are often appreciated by very few.\u00a0 But at the end of the day I can\u2019t think of any career that will afford you more of an opportunity to learn and grow at an unbelievable pace, or that will give you the opportunity to influence other people\u2019s lives by affording them opportunities to excel, and nothing else will give you more of an opportunity to create something truly marvelous!<\/p>\n

Yes I am glad I chose to be an Entrepreneur and I wouldn\u2019t change it for the world.<\/p>\n

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~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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