Today I had the opportunity to interview someone about their professional and personal journey as an entrepreneur. Having the chance to hear other people\u2019s stories is such a blessing because you can learn from their life lessons without having to go through the actual experiences yourself. It happened that the entrepreneur I interviewed today has been fighting ovarian cancer for many years. When she was first diagnosed she was given only a 20% chance of survival. She shared how going through that changed her entire perspective on life. She shared that when the doctor first told her about her diagnosis he said he was shocked that she didn\u2019t fall apart and crumple to the floor like most patients would hearing that news. She looked at the doctor and said, \u201cWill that help me get better?\u201d she went on to say, \u201cCause if it won\u2019t then I don\u2019t got time for that.\u201d She recognized that if falling apart wasn\u2019t going to help her get better than she didn\u2019t want to waste a moment of her precious time remaining doing it. Instead she put every ounce of her time into fighting the cancer and she went on living her life but with a different perspective and a different outlook on things\u2026one she considers to be better\u2026<\/p>\n
Listening to her incredible story taught me so many incredible life lessons. One of the biggest lessons was her comment to her doctor \u201cWill that help me get better?\u201d I started thinking about our lives and how many times we react to difficult situations by stressing out, falling apart, crying, complaining, asking \u201cwhy me?\u201d repeatedly, feeling sorry for ourselves, etc\u2026\u00a0 We all do those things at times in our lives\u2026but what if instead when something difficult came along we would stop and say to ourselves, \u201cwill acting this way help me get better?\u201d\u2026cause if it won\u2019t then you don\u2019t got time for that\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t depress yourself in any moment of life. Live it with a face full of smile. Why waste time crying when you know you are here just for a while?\u201d<\/span> -Abhishek Tiwari<\/p>\n The way this entrepreneur has lived her life and fought her battle with cancer is such an amazing example of resilience. Her example is truly inspirational and I thank her for sharing it today. In closing I want to share this quote because this is exactly what she has done:<\/p>\n RESILIENCE. \u201cResilience is the strength of spirit to recover from adversity. When we experience disappointment, loss, or tragedy, we find the hope and courage to carry on. Humor lightens the load when it seems too heavy. We overcome obstacles by tapping into a deep well of faith and endurance. At times of loss, we come together for comfort. We grieve and then move on. We create new memories. We discern the learning that can come from the hardship. We don\u2019t cower in the face of challenge. We engage fully in the dance of life.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n May we all engage fully in the dance of life.<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I had the opportunity to interview someone about their professional and personal journey as an entrepreneur. Having the chance to hear other people\u2019s stories is such a blessing because you can learn from their life lessons without having to go through the actual experiences yourself. It happened that the entrepreneur I interviewed today has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6578,"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":[168,395,46,855,9488,9359,970,9478,245,4159,163,9487,9486,1966,89,9481,1620,1392,9476,2366,230,7676,5999,4422,615,3678,41,67,151,83,178,3281,9482,33,591,7801,55,1020,231,1768,285,9480,303,1053,87,111,296,64,502,4419,1109,35,24,545,4100,1648,9477,791,1930,134,7665,187,81,1782,272,777,4532,9484,2834,9479,9485,116,344,5904,3200,779,9483],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-attitude","tag-cancer","tag-carine-clark","tag-carry-on","tag-challenge","tag-chance-of-survival","tag-complain","tag-complaining","tag-courage","tag-cower","tag-create-new-memories","tag-crying","tag-dance","tag-dance-of-life","tag-death","tag-depressed","tag-diagnosis","tag-difficult","tag-disappointment","tag-discern","tag-doctor","tag-endurance","tag-endure","tag-engage","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-example","tag-experience","tag-faith","tag-falling-apart","tag-feeling-sorry","tag-friend","tag-friendship","tag-get-better","tag-happiness","tag-hardship","tag-hope","tag-hospital","tag-humor","tag-huntsman-cancer-institute","tag-interview","tag-judge","tag-laughter","tag-learning","tag-lesson","tag-life","tag-live","tag-living","tag-loss","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-move-forward","tag-obstacles","tag-outlook","tag-ovarian-cancer","tag-overcome","tag-patient","tag-perspective","tag-physician","tag-recover","tag-smile","tag-spirit","tag-story","tag-strength","tag-stressing-out","tag-survival-rate","tag-survive","tag-survivor","tag-times-of-loss","tag-tragedy","tag-trial","tag-waste-time","tag-whine","tag-why-me","tag-will-that-help-me-get-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}