Share Your Talents

I'm a member of a great, new, exciting all-volunteer nonprofit which started in 2009 in the DC area. We're trying to increase our fundraising goal and efforts this fall, and I was invited by the board to join a conference call on the topic this evening.

I realized that people all have unique talents that can play off of each other to improve a situation. It was awesome to chat with ladies who have their own strengths and come up with a plan of action together. It's important to recognize your talents and volunteer to offer them when the need arises. Don't sit and wait for an opportunity to be utilized comes along--seek opportunities and share your talents! The reward far outweighs the time you spend sharing them.

Join and Love Pinterest

If you haven't been invited to Pinterest yet, you're probably not cool. Kidding, but it's the newest most innovative but simple internet concept I've seen since Facebook! You actually "pin" virtual little square pictures onto various "boards" that you keep under your name. You can follow your friends, keep adding to your own, and basically waste every free second of time you have.

Pinterest makes me think, though, that it's valuable to aggregate all of your thoughts, ideas, hopes, dreams (even if those dreams are to bake those two-ingredient pumpkin cupcakes, or make that magnetic make-up board for your bathroom), and revisit them every once in awhile. I like the idea of getting inspired by others' "pins," and inspiring myself with my own "boards" of inspiration.

As Pinterest, says, "Happy Pinning!" Go sign up--it's awesome. http://www.pinterest.com/