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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. Walking as exercise has documented mental and physical benefits. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Your mind and body need these boundaries.

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Try Exercise Snacking for Improving #WFH Mental Health

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But does it offer the same fitness and health benefits as a Zumba class? A number of scientific studies have also found similar benefits. In addition to the mental health benefits of improving your mood, moving your body also brings blood to the brain that helps you think more clearly and boosts personal productivity.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As an economist, he stresses the need to quantify the impact of humanitarian interventions: for instance, whether a certain effort will bring $59 of benefit for every dollar in, or only $4. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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5 Ways Neuroscience Helps Your Nonprofit Understand Donor Behavior

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Donations of any kind are always going to benefit the missions of nonprofits everywhere. The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. The rational part of a donor’s brain still mediates the action evoked or prompted by the emotional part through values and learnings.

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6 Tips for Nonprofits to Combat Digital Distraction and Improve Productivity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog.

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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

Classy

Frame your program as a subscription-based group with unique, valuable benefits. Quarterly progress reports showing their life-saving gift in action. For $25 per month, “steward” donors receive: All “champion” benefits . For $50 per month, “changemaker” donors receive: All “champion” and “steward” benefits.

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How To Use Failure As A Way To Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It’s a part of business, and it’s a part of life,” explains Wooditch. Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. We all fail. Wooditch : Be aware of the origin of the voice.

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