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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. Your mind and body need these boundaries.

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Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

sgEngage

There’s no better opportunity to spring clean your work life than to take a break to tidy your space. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. How are you spring cleaning your work life? The post Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros first appeared on npENGAGE.

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What Nonprofit Professionals Need to Know about the Brain

Connection Cafe

Additionally, I have been doing research on the brain for years and am an expert on the brain of teenagers, and on how stress impacts the brain. How the brain impacts our clients. Living in poverty has physical manifestations that start in the brain. How the brain impacts our staff.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Simultaneously, I was struggling with burnout related to work-life imbalance and feeling overwhelmed by all the digital technology in my personal life and professional work.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are Some Foolproof Phrases And Words For Successful Fundraising Appeals?

Bloomerang

Your generosity can give them a new lease on life. The human brain is simply wired to react when it hears this word. Per research by marketing strategist Gregory Ciotti , “our mid-brain lights up when we think about receiving something right away (and that’s the one [part of the brain] we want to fire up!).”

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Deployed enough times, the brain encodes this response as a habit, eventually creating an automatic, default response to stress – i.e., a Protective Pattern.

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