Bother... I am not doing well on this Lent Challenge

You know.  I have had an interesting life the past three years.  I have been very time rich.  I learned the value of time in graduate school.  And I was very careful how I allocated it once I graduated.  I was very careful with my choices and commitments and how they would encroach on my time.

I loved how I spent my time the past 18 months.   The past four months I have made choices that have limited my time.   It has been hard, but it was necessary.

I guess what I have learned is to set boundaries around your time.  Avoid time wasters, and treat your time a valuable asset.   Because when you are at a stage in life when you are time poor, you will miss it more than any monetary amount.

How do you all spend your time?   How do you wish you could spend your time?  What prevents you from doing it?

Why do people volunteer?

I spent my day with people who work for an organization completely for free.  Why do people volunteer?  How are they different from the employee?  What are the most effective ways to work with them?

I am going to write about that this Lent too.

Should you start a nonprofit?

So after thinking about it.... I am not going to publish my half-thought out blogs on my professional blog.  But I will do it here.

The past three years I have worked with people trying to start nonprofits and other social ventures.

I want to create a clear flow chart that helps people think through whether they should create nonprofit.

But tonight I am tired.  I am working on the chart.  I hope to have it done in the next few days.  

Lent Challenge 2015

This year for Lent I have given myself the Ira Glass challenge.  He challenges people to create a volume of work rather than worry about the quality.  The quality will come as you go through the process of creating the volume.

I have seen this in my life.  Last year I took a challenge that pushed volume over quality and I grew so much from it.

This year I am taking it into my professional world.  Some of you may know I run my own business.  It has reached the point that the blog aspect of the business needs to start happening, but I keep putting it off because it is not "quite right"  I need to stop that.  So I am forcing myself to blog.  I am giving myself some leeway by allowing my personal blog to count too.

But for the next 40 days I have to blog every day either here or on my business blog, and then share the blog post on facebook.

The blogs won't be long.  I am working 70-80 hr work weeks right now.  This is a tight challenge.  Most blogs will probably happen late at night.

But the volume will be created.  Ira your challenge is accepted. :)