A Community Fundraiser

Enjoy The Journey - As A Community Fundraiser
By Patrick Mc Erlean

An essential component of your fundraising strategy is for you to enjoy the journey to success. That means enjoying each of your small victories along the way. If you're always looking for the overnight success formula you're doomed to a life of frustration. That formula simply doesn't exist.

Success comes with knowing what to do, planning your steps and taking action faithfully, until you achieve your goals. Since I've started using the powers of persuasion as a foundation for community fundraising through relationship building, I've found my fundraising surprisingly painless. Quite often it’s been lot of fun! “How can you find fundraising fun?” I hear you ask.

When I first discovered relationship building using the powers of persuasion I instinctively knew that it was the answer to the vast majority of my fundraising problems. What I couldn't figure out was why I was still feeling a gnawing sense of frustration. Even though I figured out what I needed to do, planned the required steps, and started to take action, I was still feeling uneasy.

It took me a couple of weeks but I began to realise the problem was, that my success still seemed a long way off into the future (probably six months to a year). Like most people in today’s world I had fallen into the trap known as “instant gratification”.

Sadly in today’s world we have become instant gratification junkies! Most people jump from pillar to post in search of the life’s magic formula for everything from their love life to their job. Instant gratification causes people to be very short on patience.