True story: In the somewhat distant past, I had a superfreakout at work. I was tired. I was feeling stretched a little bit (maybe a lot bit) too thin. And, in that moment of weakness, someone told me I needed to add one more thing to my schedule. I shouted, I complained, and I tried to negotiate a way to say no. Futile was my resistance, and there I was doing the one more
thing I couldn’t imagine myself accomplishing. Yes, I was doing it, but I wasn’t very happy about it and everyone knew it. (Not a proud moment for me, by the way). It wasn’t until we really started discussing the potential positive impacts of this project that I began to understand that this wasn’t a task built to make me miserable, it was a strategic initiative meant
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o move the needlefor
my company.
Allison is currently living out the elaborate fantasy she described to her now-former staff and colleagues in early 2001. With a hearty dose of courage and absolutely no plan of action, she abruptly left her middle-management job to become a writer—and today she is doing just that in her role as Baudville's Senior Content Writer. She's here to tell you everything she's learned in her 20-years+ professional life, plus a lot more. She's wordy like that!
