Adventures of a marathon girl

Hi y'all, One of the utmost important lessons you can learn as a fundraiser is this: IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU! Which is probably why it is so agrivating to watch half of my nation act like total idiots when it comes to Corona aka Covid19. What really pisses me off is this: complete families out including grandma's and grand dads not listening to the social distancing advice and even goings as far as to outright say into a camera for the entire nation to hear: 'Well....we're in a house together like all the time and we still didn't catch it so we're not having it' ... Okay I am going to be really rude here because maybe than you will understand this YOU ARE AN IDIOT!! It is not about YOU having covid19 because honestly nobody cares about that It's about you being a risk of spreading it. Go out with 4 at the same time and you INCREASE the risk of spreading this virus by 4! Following the most positive outcome for my country I will give you a very simple

Hi y'all, The world has gone bonkers and in total state of panic for a very serious virus, one we should be cautious off and definately not joke about and I can't write this week's piece without at least aknowledging the sheer fact that COVID19 will claim lives and that all of us need to act like responsible adults of the human kind. That being said I do mean responsible adults. You know...the kind that calms the kids down and let worry for the future not be their burden, the kind that stays calm when everyone around them starts screaming, the kind that looks for a way out in a way befitting a grown example of the mere species we call human. What we ought to do is calm down. If this is the emergency we fear so desperately than the only thing that can actually help save your life and those of your loved ones is STA which stands for Stop Think Act. Panic never saved anyone and panic is what contributes if not creates the self fullfilling prophecy of an apocalypse. W

Hi y'all It's been quite the week. The last couple of days I was in Scotland following a masterclass on great fundraising by Alan Clayton and his equally amazing team. An intense week identifying the issues charities want to resolve and the powerful messages they portray to achieve their goals. Inspiring seems like a blank word, a non word. It was so much more. We laughed, we shared, we talked, we helped each other identify what might be the barrier and when the last words were uttered non of us felt like we crossed the finish line. Non of us. We all felt like we just entered the coral, legs itching and hands tingling, brains fired up thinking let's GO! When you spent time with your peers away from home, away from your loved ones and in a situation when you're constantly challenged on one hand and taken care off at the other that's where conversation happens and where humans start to share and it's at that time when you let some of your carefully build up gu