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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Martha Beck Interview: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Have Fun - Do Good

That’s the first step to entering the zone of creative and rewarding “magic” in all traditional wisdom cultures. But Wordlessness is ALWAYS the first step to using the other three well, and it’s the one our culture has almost entirely lost. Just the idea that we have to meditate to drop into Wordlessness shows our cultural bias.

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Personal Productivity Tips for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Personal Productivity in Practice. ” Staying curious keeps you going and avoid burnout.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. Do not go to Amazon, because Amazon has old versions. Plus, it’s super competitive. This was terrific.

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Listening in Multiple Directions: The Value of Tracking

Museum 2.0

In it, the author explored the Google's "pervasive culture of measurement," and considered how similar tracking and alterations might be made in the real world. Amazon tells you not only what product you might like, but when you click on a product, it tells you what people who clicked on it actually purchased.

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