To mark Mental Health awareness week, we focused our latest advice around well-being tips at the current time.

68 Life Lessons by Kevin Kelly

When Craig is having a hard day, then he finds reading some motivational quotes or ideas can help get him back on track. He loved these 68 life lessons from Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine) and has read them a couple of times over the last month. Here are a couple that got me thinking:

“Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.”

“Perhaps the most counter-intuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.”

”You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.”

Dolly Parton’s wisdom and gratitude journals

Lianne explained how Dolly Parton helped her this week when she was feeling tired.

She also describes filling in a gratitude journal over recent years has helped her highlight (and take joy/inspiration) from everyday things that she is grateful for.

Talking about well-being with our teams

It can be hard to talk about well-being with colleagues. Emily recommends setting a well-being challenge for your team. This could be asking them to record a gratitude journal for a week or another task. It helps facilitate conversations and builds trust and connection between the team.

Using a RAG rating to describe your workload

Eleanor finished off by sharing how doing sharing a daily RAG (red, amber, green) status in a team can help colleagues explain how much work they had on the previous day. This allows for people to provide support and creates transparency and trust amongst the team.

Using agile methods to develop new fundraising ideas

This new course is now live and available to book. There is a £50 discount if you do so before the end of the month.

Drawing on principles from agile, lean and design thinking methodologies, this course will help you to be more nimble and adaptable in your fundraising, in this radically changing world.

You can read more on the content and dates by clicking here.