Monthly Archives: January 2023

The first draft is not your final draft, even if your first draft has great ideas in it. I recently visited the first draft of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. It was four pages, so lots of pieces got cut out of it as it made its way through being ratified by the colonies. It […]

Sometimes what causes burnout is not the task itself. It’s how we perceive it. Because burnout happens, at its core, when there’s disconnection. When you feel disconnected from the mission of the organization or you feel disconnected from your coworkers or disconnected from the clients you serve. I had the joyous occasion of being in […]

I coach a lot of church people, and every church has a church council. It’s like a board of directors – that guiding group that every non-profit has. At one of my client’s churches, the same people cycle on and off of the church council all the time. It’s a three year term, then they’re […]