374. Nonprofit Trends That Matter: Prioritizing Self-Growth - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE. Becky Endicott, CFRE and Mallory Erickson
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Overview
Last week, we kicked off our Friday Series on 9️⃣ Trends that Matter in 2023 with a tonesetting conversation.🥳 This week, we’re diving into the 1st trend: Prioritizing Self-Growth. Plus, we brought in our dear friend Mallory Erickson who is one of the wisest people we know to speak into how you can and need to invest in yourself. She provides a roadmap for personal self-growth and gives the pep-talk you didn’t know you needed to focus on your professional and personal development this year💪
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How to cultivate a growth mindset
The importance of finding your community of belonging + accountability
Practical tips to live out your values and take care of yourself
“True, deep self-growth is a journey.”
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Episode Highlights
Roadmap for personal self-growth this year (2:40)
Let’s celebrate where you are right now.
Set intentions to align your habits + actions around what you want to accomplish personally + professionally
Advocate for yourself.
Create space.
Don’t give yourself a deadline. Self-Growth is an ongoing process, not a to-do list.
Share what you are learning in community.
Case study: Episode 133. The 3 Step Formula to Creating Lasting Social Change - Taneshia Nash Laird (5:50)
PRO tips for Prioritizing Self-Growth (7:00)
Release the burden of guilt that you’re spending too much time on yourself.
Make a 1% shift somewhere in your life.
What self-growth means to Mallory + how it has shifted throughout her career (12:45)
Setting goals around self-growth (15:20)
How to move forward in alignment with your values (20:05)
Mallory’s One Good Thing: Don’t silo the pieces of your humaneness. (36:55)
Powerful quotes
“It's okay to invest in yourself, it's okay to make time and space for yourself.” -Becky
“Don't give yourself a deadline. Because self-growth is an ongoing process. It's not a to do list.” -Becky
“Your current situation is not your find destination.” -Taneshia Nash Laird
“I really did think self-growth was these other checkboxes I needed to check out. I lumped self-growth into self development. My journey now with personal growth is about unlearning, healing the parts of me that get in the way of having the relationships I want to have.” -Mallory
“It’s about removing the barriers to the action that we want to take.” -Mallory
“This cannot happen in a time compressor. We are not creative, we are not in touch with our bodies, and deepest selves when we are on the clock and have a countdown to finish our goal setting for the year.” -Mallory
“Give your staff time and space.” -Mallory
“Do something that gives you space. Things come through when there is space. If you want your staff to be able to think about their deep desires and tap into themselves, they need the space to do it.” -Mallory
“True, deep self-growth is a journey.” -Mallory
“Recognizing that the level of deep thinking that you are going to invite around this starts with you.” -Mallory
“We can’t say we want our staff to be less stressed, and not take things off their plate.” -Mallory
“What does it feel like to be a sector that embraces failure? That requires an entirely different collaboration with how we talk to each other, fund each other, and until we start living out those values, we are just at the surface of those conversations.” -Mallory
“People have to make and set their own boundaries. It’s different between organizations and between people.” -Mallory
“You don’t need to justify when you have had enough.” -Mallory
“If you feel like you have the capacity to advocate inside your organization, my recommendation would be to try.” -Mallory
“You can change the environment, or you can leave.” -Mallory
“I believe nonprofit employees have power that they aren’t necessarily tapping into.” -Mallory
“You can't solve repeatable patterns with the same types of solutions. So if it is not solvable in your head, tap into your heart, tap into your body.” -Mallory
