Building Personal Power
Published Date: 2006-10-25 14:50:02 WorkOnInternet.com
Read More on Home Business & Small Business ArticlesPenny, a thirty-one-year-old public relations specialist recalls her worst experience. "Basically, my job was to convince feature writers at the local newspapers to write a story about a client's charity event. I phoned the first reporter on the list and went into my pitch.
"Look," he yelled, cutting me off mid-sentence, "there's some damn charity event in this city every other week. Why are you bothering me with this?"
"I started feeling like an idiot. "But this is for muscular sclerosis," I stammered.
"Big deal," he said, hanging up.
"I knew he was just a jerk, but I couldn't make another one of those phone calls the rest of the afternoon. I felt completely shut down."
Shut down. That sinking feeling that begins like butterflies in the stomach then turns into something that feels like a fist is an event most people can identify with. Like......
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