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Why I want you to fail this year

Why I want you to fail this year No, I don’t want you to have a bad year. But a safe year, with nothing learned? That’s a bad year. Failing can be good! And being afraid to fail? Not so good. An example: I know I need to refresh my website. No, check that. I […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: failure, fundraising appeals, learning, testing

Have you failed today?

Have you failed today? I hope so! Because when you fail, you have the chance to learn something. And often, it’s the only way we really learn. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw If you’re […]

Filed Under: Blog, Caring for yourself, Fundraising, Nonprofits Tagged With: failure, learning, Nonprofit

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