The Fabulous Life of Ang

More Domination, Less Indulgence

Well friends, I have had an epiphany over the weekend. I need to dominate more and indulge myself less. How did I learn this you ask? Well I was at our Sales Award banquet on Thursday in Milwaukee and it was one of the most Amazing nights of my LIFE!

First, I won a Platinum Award for my sales this year(Last year I received a Bronze award, so I jumped over 2 levels of awards in one year - that was great)

Then I won an award for exceeding budgetary goals - also very good, at our company, 100% is good, however in our little land of over achievers, you're not anyone until you are well over 100%. I finished the year at 130%. Last year I was at 106%.

Third, I won an award for earning the most margin in our division from closing large sales. This one was a shocker for me, to have closed the most large business out of more than 100 people - that was really neat.

Finally, I won an award for being in the top 10 in our division for 2006. I was #2 - can you believe it???? I almost fainted, then I immediately started kicking myself because to be that close to #1 YIKES! I am determined to be #1 someday, I am completely remotivated to work harder.

So - that is where the domination comes in, I dominated at the awards banquet - it was really cool, I feel very proud of my accomplishments and am excited for my career future.

Now let's move onto the indulgence...I think I drank 2 bottles of red wine at the Sales Awards celebration. I am not kidding. I could have filled a kiddy pool with the red wine I drank. I was just so jubilant and everyone was congratulating me and our VP of sales hugged me and our directors all congratulated me and the VP of operations who I used to work for came over and said I had made a great decision when I moved to sales and that he was so proud of me. It was totally surreal. Which may be why I didn't recall how much wine I was drinking.

And after the banquet, Jamie, the fabulous friend on my team who lets me crash at her house after work events, and I decided to go to Trysting Place, the hangout bar for our office. I think it was already midnight when we rolled in. And how nice, everyone wanted to buy us both drinks. Suddenly it was 1:30 and they were turning the lights on. Uh-oh, Jamie and I thought as we drove home. Getting to the office by 7am tomorrow won't be easy.

And it wasn't easy at all, especially since we both overslept. Luckily we have an ultra cool boss who laughed when we showed up at 8:30.

So - I have figured it out, I am great at dominating, I am BAD at celebrating. I plan to reign it in - I promise.