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Shonda Rhimes, the creative powerhouse behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder, wrote a book a few years ago called\xa0Year of Yes\xa0that really resonated with me. I\u2019m sharing five takeaway lessons that have impacted my personal and business life in a pretty major way.\nFirst, let me set the scene for you as to why Shonda even wrote this book. Shonda and her sister were in the kitchen getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner way back in 2013, and Shonda was telling her sister about some parties, talk shows, and conferences that she'd been recently invited to, you know, the Hollywood type stuff. She was talking about how she was too busy to do any of it, and without blinking an eye, her sister said something to her that day that became the wake-up call that Shonda needed to transform her \u201cbusy life\u201d, and those words were:\nHer sister knew that Shonda was hiding behind being too busy to avoid doing things that\xa0scared her and would take her out of her comfort zone. Her sister also knew that Shonda had\xa0ZERO balance in her life and she was actually miserable. Now, would the outside world have known that she was miserable? No. However, Shonda knew that her sister was telling the truth. She\u2019d been called out and it was the truth.\nThis brought on an epiphany that something major had to change in her life. She wrote in her book:\xa0"This could not possibly be what having it all was supposed to feel like, could it? Because if it\xa0was,\xa0if this is what I spent all this time and energy working so hard for, if this is what the promised land looked like, what was\xa0success\xa0... was what success felt like, was what I sacrificed for ... " And then she trailed off, telling the reader she didn't even wanna go there.\nThis was her aha moment! And the reason I bring it up here is because I think many of us are working our tails off, hustling to the core, and if we're not careful, we're gonna work ourselves into the ground, and then one day we're gonna pop up and say, "Wait. Was this what I was working so hard for, to feel burned out and overworked and tired?\u201d We\u2019ve got to be really mindful of this. I know we're creating businesses we absolutely love, but just don\u2019t work yourself into the ground, okay?\nSo, there you have it! I hope these five lessons I learned from my mentor, Shonda Rhimes, have given you a new perspective on how to live a more fulfilling life and to run your business from a place of empowerment and truth.\nDon\u2019t forget to download the freebie I created for you. It\u2019s a worksheet that is going to walk you step-by-step through some exercises that go along with the lessons I talked about today. It's a bit of a journaling type of exercise, but believe me, it will make everything you learned more actionable.\nThis episode is brought to you by: Master Class: How to Confidently Create Your First Profitable Course in 60 Days www.Amyporterfield.com/courses