Have you heard about the Mitchell airport in Milwaukee? Just past the TSA checkpoints are signs designating a “Recombobulation Area.” I love this! And not just because it’s a fun word to say.
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Burnout. I hear that word a lot these days. It is a persistent theme in my conversations. For nonprofits especially, where the work is generally in support of our most vulnerable populations — those who are experiencing the greatest impact of today’s turmoil — the work has never felt more urgent and unending…
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I hear it a lot these days: “Why bother planning? With everything changing so much and so fast, what’s the point?” Maybe long-term planning was always a fool’s errand, since strategic plans, like new cars, lose much of their value once you drive off the lot.
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My gremlin showed up again last month. I’d been having a bunch of productive conversations with a prospective client regarding a very large fundraising consulting project. Things were going well and everything felt on track.
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For the past 30 years, I’ve had two (now faded) yellow sticky notes taped to my computer screen. One says, “Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment.” (The subject for a future newsletter.) The other says, “Don’t postpone joy.”
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I didn’t realize I was running on fumes. 2021 was a craptastic year for too many reasons to enumerate; I just kept putting one foot in front of the other. Until, that is, I stopped moving. I took a full two weeks off at the end of the year. That’s when I felt the wave of exhaustion — mentally, physically, spiritually.
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