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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 1:22 PM CDT
What's up?
After years of staying ridiculously busy, I'm winding down. You'll notice that the Bear Creek Concerts website is just a place holder. No more concerts in the foreseeable future. I've got one more charitable event, on May 6, and then I'm off duty.
I'm feeling a little guilty about this. I just heard that the national average for volunteering has always been 10%. However, it's dropped to 4%!
Yet, if I give up the guilt, and really deeply look at what's happening with me, I understand it's that decrease in volunteerism that burned me out. I am in the 4 percentile. Maybe by summertime, I won't even been there at all.
We have to take care of those who give so freely. As an organizer, I know you can't ask the same person to do it over and over again, but I'm guilty of that. It's pretty much the unofficial trend that the same volunteering types get recruited by every organization in town. People know who can be counted on and then everyone asks for that volunteer's help. I'm telling you firsthand, it leads to immediate flash burnout. The volunteer just hits the wall and walks away... for good.
Yes, indeed! I'm preaching! So here's the message. DO YOUR PART! We're all on this big, needy planet together, and a little help from all will keep us spinning in the right direction. It is absolutely not true that you don't have time. You do. You just don't want to share it. So don't share it all. But share some of it. It's part of being a sustainable compassionate world.
In the meantime, while I'm taking a little break in the good works realm, I am still maintaining Stave Magazine. I'll be a little late getting the May issue out because it took me until today to come up with a few interesting things to post, but I will update monthly (and sometimes more often). So bookmark me over at Stave, and send me interesting ideas that pertain to music, and I'll check it out.
After years of staying ridiculously busy, I'm winding down. You'll notice that the Bear Creek Concerts website is just a place holder. No more concerts in the foreseeable future. I've got one more charitable event, on May 6, and then I'm off duty.
I'm feeling a little guilty about this. I just heard that the national average for volunteering has always been 10%. However, it's dropped to 4%!
Yet, if I give up the guilt, and really deeply look at what's happening with me, I understand it's that decrease in volunteerism that burned me out. I am in the 4 percentile. Maybe by summertime, I won't even been there at all.
We have to take care of those who give so freely. As an organizer, I know you can't ask the same person to do it over and over again, but I'm guilty of that. It's pretty much the unofficial trend that the same volunteering types get recruited by every organization in town. People know who can be counted on and then everyone asks for that volunteer's help. I'm telling you firsthand, it leads to immediate flash burnout. The volunteer just hits the wall and walks away... for good.
Yes, indeed! I'm preaching! So here's the message. DO YOUR PART! We're all on this big, needy planet together, and a little help from all will keep us spinning in the right direction. It is absolutely not true that you don't have time. You do. You just don't want to share it. So don't share it all. But share some of it. It's part of being a sustainable compassionate world.
In the meantime, while I'm taking a little break in the good works realm, I am still maintaining Stave Magazine. I'll be a little late getting the May issue out because it took me until today to come up with a few interesting things to post, but I will update monthly (and sometimes more often). So bookmark me over at Stave, and send me interesting ideas that pertain to music, and I'll check it out.