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Have you ever faced a major personal crisis, which distracted you from your work and caused you to lose focus? I’m convinced that we all have.

As part of his onboarding for a new staff job for a community nonprofit, Aaron attended a presentation about the organization’s staff-giving initiative. Employees could

Back in the 2000s, when my national public television series, Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska, was in production, what appeared to be a juicy plum dropped into my lap. Together with the General Manager of University of North Carolina Public Television, I had the chance to meet with one of our United States senators.

A frightening near-tragedy served as a wake-up call and made one workaholic overachiever prioritize vacation time. In this original blog for Crouch and Associates, performance consultant Scott Koskoski shows why vacations matter and urges you to pack your bags and head for the beach!

In 1988, the feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde wrote, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation.” Thirty years later, Lorde’s framing of self-care is instructive for those of us working in the nonprofit sector. If we are to continue the long work of healing the world, we must first do the work of healing ourselves.

As 34 senior executives from European nonprofits took seats at a large round table at Rockefeller Center in New York City recently for an intensive fundraising course, we scanned the room trying to identify our opening speaker.

Two winters ago, Wilfredo Rosario and his wife Jazmin were watching the Weather Channel as an ice storm barreled down on their Clayton, North Carolina home. One of the TV tips was to pull plastic bags over your vehicle’s side-view mirrors so that when the storm passed, you could de-ice by simply removing the bags.

I love the month of April, daylight savings time, and the loud chirping of birds singing in spring. And I love the Masters Tournament. No gathering of top performers is more impressive than those who congregate in Augusta, Georgia in early April to participate in every golfer’s dream week.

I have the privilege of working with nonprofit leaders around the country and lately have noticed a common theme. They each embrace a version of this belief: The work is too important for me to slow down. This high-minded ideal is inspiring and can lead to remarkable work, but it can also lead to burnout.