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8 Long-Term Health Benefits of Volunteering

NonProfit Hub

There’s a threshold to reaping the full benefits of volunteering, though. Volunteers who commit at least one or two hours every week reap the fullest benefits from their service. When you assist others, your body releases dopamine in the brain, which has a positive effect on how you feel. Teaches new skills. Try it out!

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How To Use Failure As A Way To Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. It’s a strategic way to collect and apply tactical knowledge and methods you can use for future benefit. We all fail.

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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How To Use Failure As Your Path To Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. It’s a strategic way to collect and apply tactical knowledge and methods you can use for future benefit. We all fail.

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Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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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. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work.

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. Additional Resources.

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