Shonda is very open in revealing her fears in Year of Yes. “If they had asked me, I would have said no,” she recalls. She ends up having a wonderful time that evening, chatting with the Obamas and enjoying the performance. Intimidated by this, she has no choice in the matter – she is going. Soon thereafter, Shonda relates, she is given a seat in President Obama’s box for a Kennedy Center Honors event. Now all of these amazing opportunities are coming your way – once-in-a-lifetime opportunities – and you aren’t taking advantage of any of them. “You are your own boss – your job is only as busy as you make it. “You never say yes to anything,” her sister Delores told her that day, remarking on Shonda’s tendency to keep a low profile. A chance conversation with her sister while preparing Thanksgiving dinner shook her world. To the bone,” she writes early in her new book, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person. Shonda Rhimes, the prolific creator and producer of ABC’s hit television shows Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, was not as confident in herself as you might think.
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