With Baudville being its own little universe, a veritable Mulligan Stew of unique personalities and talents, it’s always been my fantasy to have more team members contribute to this blog. This week I got my wish with a guest star from our stellar Customer Service Team. I am geek-tacularly excited!

I wrote in my last post about my past life as a department supervisor. At that time, I was working at a mortgage company that had a massive customer service call center operating out of our building. While this team was on the phones lines, my department was working behind the scenes reviewing mortgage documents and initiating the correction process if mistakes were found. As the perpetual bearers of bad news, we were not very popular folks.

I just attended a couple of creative writing workshops in one of my favorite places to visit: New York City! When I enrolled, I wasn’t totally sure what I would get out of the experience. I had done my research and found that the school had a great reputation; but it also seemed from the reviews that overall student satisfaction had more to do with the individual instructors than anything. Of course, I hoped I would get good ones.  

Despite a little hesitation, I was excited about the workshops and, like a big nerd, actually giddy about being given a homework assignment to complete before one of the workshops started.

Happy about homework? Crazy talk!

You may have noticed that throughout this week of health and wellness posts, I’ve been hinting at Baudville themes that correlate to the topic of the post. Today, I’m going to shout it out loud: Together Everyone Achieves More!

Katie boosted her success drastically by forming a support group – actually, several – of her family, friends, coworkers, and even strangers. Read what she has to say about how working with a team is great way to create accountability and encourage action – and get results!

One of the ways to earn big points in our fitness challenge was to eliminate an unhealthy behavior. But, to claim the points, we had to quit the offending act for the entire 10 weeks of the challenge. Oi! Many of us cut out fast food; others pledged to get the recommended daily intake of water. But, our hero, Ryan, went for the big guns.

Here he is to tell you about it...