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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. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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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. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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#40BetterHours: The Art of Single Tasking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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How To Use Improv In Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down. Yes, and."

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SXSW 2013 – Are You A Social Media Nonprofit Manager Looking for Your Peers? #npsmpeer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world.

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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Don't live that way."