Member Mary R Snyder
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Being asked to lead a workshop on storytelling, grandkids, rain and on-time flights
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June 4th – Grateful for great friends and good coffee. And June days that aren’t too hot!
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May 28 – thankful for a long, lazy weekend. Great adult children and fabulous clients!!
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May 21st – grateful for beautiful weather and working on the deck!! Husbands who cook and cook good. Friends who know just the right thing to say!
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I LOVE the baby pig!!!!
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Grateful for:
time away at the beach
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Grateful for:
Fun roadtrips to the beachGreat friends who get me
Clients I LOVE working with
Events where I get to share my passion of the power of your story
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I just want to pop in and say that CASA is an incredible organization!!
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april 12 – grateful for grand babies and a life that allows me to spend the whole day holding our newest one
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I like the idea of making the first sentence make someone want to read the second sentence. I try to start in the middle of a story OR use a phrase like “Imagine you’re” of “imagine if” to peak interest and engage them in the story.
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YES! A secret vision trip! Love it
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This proves I need Monday motivation — it’s Wednesday! And when i read database migration I almost broke out in hives. I am reminding myself that the ick of the migration results in a more robust and usable database. I’m also reminding myself that Clay is doing this — not me!!
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same — water has that effect on me too!
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same here — it quiets my soul
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I hear you — that creeping self doubt can come when your plate is full and someone is offering you MORE ideas! I know that boards often feel their job is to generate ideas — it’s our job to let them know we need help.
Here’s something I’m doing with a client right now — Evaluation I call InspireMetrics. We developed categories that matter to them. They chose:
Brings in funds
Creates strong awareness that will lead to funding
Deepens donor relationships
Volunteer appreciation
Team building
Fun
And they are going through every donor development aspect and ranking them in these categories. Each area is ranked and we will review what needs more attention and what needs less.
This is a great way to showcase your work for you board. My thought is ‘if it’s not moving the needle’ then let’s evaluate if we need to do this.
Another idea for when a board member brings an ‘idea’ to the table– kindly ask “can you head up this project?” Let him/ her know that your focus is the health of the organization and that means you have to focus on what moves the needle with funding and the overall operation of the org
On to the self doubt and overwhelm. We all struggle with it. I know I do. But I want you to think about that big success last month or last year. Remember you did that! Don’t lose sight of your successes! You’ve got this!
