What's your Cause?
This weeks radio interview is with Barbara Saunders from SECP.
What’s Your Cause?
While I spend a lot of time in this newsletter focused on writing articles about businesses and how a business can grow, or about writing and how to build a marketing platform, I also think it’s important to sometimes look beyond the professional and focus on the service aspect, specifically what causes you support.
What is your cause? What is a social, environmental, political, or economic issue you believe in that requires some form of activism and participation, in order to create some changes in the world? Having a cause can help you find some clarity for your life and your goals, because the cause provides you perspective outside of yourself, your clients, your family, and friends. It connects you to an issue that touches or effects more than just the people you know, and may sometimes effect more than just people.
I have a few causes that I believe in and focus on. I believe in contributing time to taking care of the environment, whether it’s planting trees and other plants or pulling out invasive species. I believe in teaching people about economic activism through networking, and how that can be used to promote genuine change and collaboration. And just recently I’ve started researching information about African Elephants, because I want to donate some of my finances to help out elephants.
What’s your cause? What do you believe in? What can you do to support your cause?
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When: Tuesday, April 14 2009 6-8:30pm
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