The entertainment industry is a demanding, fickle, and high-risk environment. Founded on intense creativity and marketing, it can be one of the most unlikely environments for long-term individual success. Yet out of this environment, we find a lesson that takes us “back home.”
Shonda Rhimes, the media titan behind hit television shows Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, and Scandal, was driven and always loved to work. However, in her biography she states that she eventually found herself “overworked, overused, overdone, and burned out.” She asked herself, “What do you do when the thing you do, the work you love, starts to taste like dust?” Her work depended on her amazing creative energy, but, almost overnight, POOF
. . . it was gone! She continues, “I needed to figure out how to get my inspiration back! At almost the same time, I realized my family life was also in trouble.” As a single parent, with these huge work commitments, she watched as her kids were quickly growing up and needed her attention more than ever.
Shonda made a critical decision...
