Thus far, 2018 has been completely insane with activity.\u00a0 I started off my year jumping feet first into planning my daughter\u2019s wedding reception for the small group of 1,200 people being invited to her May event.\u00a0 Along with those months of planning I gave several keynote presentations at conferences, was a judge for several business plan competitions, chaired a big University board spring conference, went on multiple business trips around the country to Palm Springs, Simi Valley, and a conference in Chicago, took two big international trips with boards I serve on to London, then back for a few days to attend my daughter-in-law’s graduation from college, and then right back to Europe to host another board on a trip to Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Vienna, and Budapest, which got me back less than a week before the big May 19th wedding event…I must have been out of my mind to then turn around and two weeks later host a trip to Lake Powell for my business partners and their families on my houseboat for a week!\u00a0 Just returning back home again late last Saturday night.\u00a0 What was I thinking\u2026right?!!<\/p>\n
Clearly I wasn\u2019t really thinking\u2026but maybe it\u2019s a good thing that I wasn\u2019t because otherwise I would never have done all the things I have done so far this year\u2026.heck I wouldn\u2019t have agreed to do even half of them if I was thinking because it has been so much it\u2019s been absolute insanity without even a moment to breathe let alone sleep\u2026 And yet when I look back at my life I have to admit I will remember the things I\u2019ve done this year. I will remember the graduation and that wedding reception I threw\u2026I will remember taking opportunities to serve others\u2026I will remember every single one of those trips I took because of those amazing people I got to interact with on each trip\u2026I will remember doing all of those things that I\u2019ve done this year\u2026<\/p>\n
So absolutely I could have said no when I was asked to do many of those things (outside of the graduation and the wedding of course \ud83d\ude42 ). And absolutely saying no to them would have allowed me to get more sleep, given me time to answer emails and return phone calls, helped me get those to-do\u2019s done that have lingered on my list for forever and a day done. Of course saying no to the big things would have allowed for these other things – But let\u2019s be honest – looking back at life what things will be remembered for having done them? The emails and the to-do\u2019s and the extra time slept?\u00a0 That\u2019s a pretty likely \u201cno\u201d\u2026.although getting some sleep sounds pretty darn tempting right now\u2026but still a no on the memorable things scale\u2026<\/p>\n
As opportunities come up maybe ask yourself the question, \u201cLooking back, what are you going remember doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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