Your Nonprofit & The Dilemma Of The Woodcutter

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Did you hear about the woodcutter whose production went down because he couldn't take the time to sharpen his axe?

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
― Abraham Lincoln

Chopping the tree - your mission

Sharpening your axe - Personal growth

• Organizational development
• Fundraising ability

SMART NONPROFIT LEADERS PRIORITIZE THEIR GROWTH AS NONPROFIT LEADERS

• You MUST take time out from chopping wood in order to sharpen your axe

 If you don't prioritize learning nonprofit strategy, your woodpile will NEVER get cut.

• You will work harder and harder and you will get less and less done.
• When you work harder and harder and less and less is accomplished your attitude will show it.
• Frustration will become the dominant emotion of your life.
  • Some pastors LIVE with the worst attitude in the world
  • Suspicious 
  • Untrusting
  • Negative  

What I am talking about is taking the time to figure out what it means to sharpen your axe and then consciously, deliberately and with directed effort calendar those efforts.   We are talking about putting first things first.  We are talking about keeping the main things in life the main things.  

Here's what happens when we don't take the time and initiative to consciously sharpen our axe:  We live at the tyranny of the urgent.  We live our lives constantly putting out infernos.  

The value of cutting your wood with a sharp axe is an issue at the very heart of life.  

So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

ESCAPE THE TYRANNY OF THE URGENT

• Urgent things act UPON us.  
• Important things don't.  We must act UPON them.

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