Getting back to the joy of your work

Do you remember when you decided to take on your responsibilities at your organization?

I'm guessing you saw it as an opportunity:

• To make a difference in the world

• To help people who really need your support

• To practice and perfect your particular set of professional skills

• To feel a sense of belonging among a team of people who share your values

At some point you decided to use CiviCRM as a significant tool in this work. (Or someone else decided, and you agreed.)

I'm guessing you also saw this as an opportunity, as a way to support your personal mission in pursuing all of the above. You probably hoped it would help you:

• To get a clear picture of the data that informs your work

• To understand the people you're trying to help

• To easily connect people to the services and information that they need

• To feel the satisfaction of achieving one goal after another

So how's that going?

I mean really:

• Are you feeling satisfied and proud of your achievements?

• Are you looking back with pride on a series of accomplished goals, large or small?

• Are you continually improving in your sense of clarity of the data that matters?

If you are, that's music to my ears.

If you're not, what's up?

Here's the thing:

A powerful and flexible tool like CiviCRM comes with its own set of delights and derailments.

I hear from people on a regular basis who are experiencing the delights, by working through (and going around) the derailments.

They do it by mastering the tools, focusing on measurable outcomes, and making sure they understand the underlying structure of their data.

Fortunately, these are all learnable skills, if you make the time to learn them, and get help where you need it.

And it’s worth doing. Sometimes it's just a matter of pausing to remember why you started this journey in the first place.

All the best,
A.