Twice a year my company, TD Bank, has town hall meetings across their footprint (from Maine to Florida). At the opening of each of these company wide meetings they start with a video......of their employees. The video has a cross section of employees dancing and answering questions to fake interviews. An example of a fake interview is asking me "what is your favorite food?" and I of course answer "cheese". Well when the final product is done it will show someone asking me " what was your favorite gift on Christmas ever?" and then you see my response "Cheese".......get it......it's funny....
In a recent office email, employees were asked to volunteer to be in the meeting video. Last spring, they used the "Happy " song and I have to say the video was very funny. This time around it was Katy Perry's "Roar". Of course as soon as I read the email I hit delete. Not doing that I thought to myself.
And I didn't give it another thought..........
That is until I had my weekly one on one with my boss.......
She didn't ask about the video or my participation.......nope it was me opening my big mouth........when will I learn?
The conversation went like this......
Donna: oh that music video.....not a chance I am doing that...
My Boss: wouldn't that be a great thing for your list of things you haven't done
Donna: I am not doing the music video
My Boss: you don't have to do it but you are the one who has been challenging yourself
I should have known then I was sunk......
Because she was right......I have been trying to push myself to do new things.
Then I pushed it from my mind......I had to be out of the office and work from home one day and thought I had missed video day....... I thought to myself that solves the problem....I missed it.
But NNNNNOOOO...........there were 2 days of video shooting and I was lucky enough to be in the office the second day they were filming!!
One of my managing partners mentioned the video shoot was that day at 2:00. She asked if I was going to do it. I said no but then told her about my conversation with my boss. She then said to me my boss was right and it would take another item off my list.....damn my list....ugh!!!
I thought about it through the morning and kept on saying nope not doing it. But I could picture my boss sitting on my shoulder saying "you want to challenge yourself and step out of your comfort zone don't you?"
A little before 2:00 PM, my manager partner came and asked if I was doing the video and I said "I don't think so". Then one of her team members joined us and said "oh come on do it!". I explained why I didn't want to do it by pointing at my body and saying something about how I felt about the way I looked. Her response was "but you are beautiful". OK a raving beauty I am not.......but I have to get it through my head how others see me and not how I see myself........when will I ever get that???
So as you have guessed at 2:00, I was in the room for the video shoot. I came in saying I was not going to dance. The person shooting the video was very accommodating. I didn't dance. I sat and worked with headphones in my ears......while others in all kinds of TD green and purple hats and boas and masks......and holding tambourines and other TD noise makers danced around me while I was oblivious to all they were doing. Then they started to decorate me....with a green hat that had lights that flashed off and on....a green or purple boa....throwing confetti on me....as I continued to work. Then at the end I pick up a green tambourine that had lights that flashed off and on and shake it.
The whole thing only took a few minutes and it was done. There was talk of doing something else.......at that point I said I was done and fortunately it was the end.
I can only hope I end up on the cutting room floor.
So if you want to challenge me to do something it appears you only have to remind me of "the list".....LOL!!
The video will be shown here in Lexington this week.....unfortunately, I will not be in the office that day so I will miss my screen debut.....darn it....no red carpet.......no paparazzi.......I will just have to live without having that experience!!
The work I was doing during the video......here is a picture of what I was writing in my notebook:
P.S.#1- Another good week at Weight Watchers- I tracked my food again this week and had another good week. Thank you Jenn for reminding me to track everything !!!!
P.S. #2- On another note: most of you know Bob was diagnosed with kidney cancer last week. I have not written anything but one post about this on my family's FB page because we don't know much right now. We will be meeting with his Dr's this week and will hopefully have more answers. I will keep you posted, Please keep Bob and Jenn and I in your prayers as we learn what is next...
See you next week.....
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