Search
11 Oct Try Acting as If There is No Material World
Try Acting as If There is No Material World When you try acting as if there is no material world, you learn fruitful things about money, money-making, money management, and fundraising. Try this thought-experiment with me. Step One: What is There if There’s No Material...
04 Oct You May Have a More Peaceful Relationship to Money than Your (Prospective) Donor or Investor
You May Have a More Peaceful Relationship to Money than Your (Prospective) Donor or Investor Yes, you might: you may have a more peaceful relationship to money than your (prospective) donor or investor does. If you read this blog, it might be to gain a...
29 Sep Wealth is Where We Are
Wealth is Where We Are Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else. –Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere I love this quote for its sneakiness. It’s a pun. Yes, that place in the sky called Heaven is the...
20 Sep What Difference Does the Equinox Make for Fundraising?
What Difference Does the Equinox Make for Fundraising? Fundraising is affected by all kinds of factors larger than itself: natural disasters, the school year, national holidays, political crises are some of the biggies. One of these larger factors is the turning of the year–seasonal cycles....
30 Aug Who’s a Money Magician?
Who’s a Money Magician? You are. We are. In her comment to this recent post, our reader Danielle again revealed herself to be a Magician. She does this all the time. (My blog search software doesn’t search the comments to this blog, but Danielle comments...
23 Aug Ask the Price
Ask the Price Everything costs. Everything benefits. The question is whether the benefit is worth the cost. You can language this any way you like. If it brings you good, you probably had to invest something in it: time, money, energy, worry, caring. Do you...
16 Aug Decide You’re Caught Up
Hot Tip: Decide You’re Caught Up When I’m stressing about time, I decide that I’m caught up. Here’s my advice about this hot tip: why, how and when to use it. Why to Decide Reason #1: The fact is if we left the planet tomorrow,...
09 Aug Asking for Money Is Not Asking to Feel Inferior
Asking for Money Is Not Asking to Feel Inferior Even though asking for money is not asking to feel inferior, we sometimes feel inferior anyway, just because we are asking. In my recent workshop “Not for the Meek: Fundraising as a Contemplative Practice” (which downloads...