Resources & Reflections
In these posts, I share my personal reflections on life and death as well as practical resources I’ve found helpful over the years. I do not receive any kickbacks for recommending these resources.
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Staring at the Sun
Irvin Yalom’s book, Staring at the Sun, is a profound and accessible psychological exploration of death anxiety and how to navigate the world as a living person, knowing that you will die at some point in the guaranteed future. Just as the text of the book takes readers on a journey from agitation to peacefulness,…
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Non-Profit Life Cycle
Community organizations are just individual people doing their best to work together. Which means we’re subject to the strengths and weaknesses of…people. These days, I like to measure things on a scale from SNAFU (situation normal: all f***ed up) to FUBAR (f***ed up beyond all recognition). It helps us remember that we’re not working in…
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Burnout Assessment
I was not a perfect executive director. But one thing that I did well was to periodically have our whole staff fill out this burnout assessment in staff meetings. I didn’t require anyone to share their specific results, but we would talk about anything that surprised us and what we needed. One time, I filled…
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Self-Care Guide & Assessment
When I’m in a more stressed & compressed period of time, I tend to focus in on “what needs to get done” and reduce my own needs to the bare minimum. At the beginning of a longer stretch of intensity (work, family, personal health challenges, etc), I can hold my boundaries pretty well, keep my…
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