Happy Birthday You Got This, Dad!
Aaron Sharp | February 4, 2021
Here are some thoughts I have about You Got This, Dad, one year after it’s release.
Remember one year ago today? Life sure seemed a lot simpler then. The Chiefs won their first Super Bowl, politicians were yelling at each other about an impeachment trial, and my most recent book, You Got This, Dad, released.
Obviously, one of those events was the most monumental to me. We had big plans for You Got This, Dad starting with a launch party just a few days after the release. It was the first time we had ever done that, and hopefully, one day is a less-complicated world, we can do something like that again.
We did some interviews and even tried out something new - You Got This, Dad: The Series - then the world flipped upside down.
The year that You Got This, Dad has been out in the wild has been terribly unpredictable. It has been, as you might have heard, unprecedented. We had planned on filming several episodes of You Got This, Dad: The Series, but we only got two episodes in before lockdowns and safety concerns overrode our marketing plans. Within a couple of weeks of the book’s release my attention had to refocus on the task of getting over 180 employees of RightNow Media successfully working from home. I don’t remember much about March of last year, or April for that matter. In February, at the release party, we didn’t know that was coming, but what resonates with me so much about that is that God knew.
A year before the release of You Got This, Dad, in February of 2019, I was driving home from the office one evening when I was involved in a car accident. I was fine, but my trusty Saturn Vue, that I had driven for 13 years was totaled. Once the adrenaline from the accident wore off I became annoyed at myself because that car was paid for and after working so hard to pay things off now we would be adding a car payment. But even in that moment it occurred to me that God knew the accident was coming long before I did. Why did I bring up February of 2019 while I’m writing about February 2020? Because there is a lesson that stretches from 2019 to 2020 and now to 2021. That new car that we had to purchase in February of 2019, that came with a car payment that I was so frustrated about, is now paid off. I never saw the car wreck coming, but I also never saw the many ways that God blessed us allowing us to pay off the car early coming either. In 2019 when I was worried about 2020 I didn’t even know what I should have been worried about, and all of it was in God’s hands.
The last year has been a wild ride. When You Got This, Dad released I didn’t see all of the ups and downs coming, but here we are one year later and only God knows what is coming, and what He’ll do this year.
Happy Birthday You Got This, Dad! Let’s home your second year is a little smoother.
p.s. If you’ve read You Got This, Dad sometime in the last year a great book birthday present would be to leave a review of the book. It would be our favorite present ever!