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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

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If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. Your mind and body need these boundaries.

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Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

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There’s no better opportunity to spring clean your work life than to take a break to tidy your space. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. How are you spring cleaning your work life? The post Spring Clean Your Work Life: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros first appeared on npENGAGE.

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What Nonprofit Professionals Need to Know about the Brain

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Additionally, I have been doing research on the brain for years and am an expert on the brain of teenagers, and on how stress impacts the brain. How the brain impacts our clients. Living in poverty has physical manifestations that start in the brain. How the brain impacts our staff.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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Does Immersion In Social Media Change Our Brain Functions? This Is Your Brain On Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. Simultaneously, I was struggling with burnout related to work-life imbalance and feeling overwhelmed by all the digital technology in my personal life and professional work.

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Why You Need to Care About Documentaries in 2022

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The premise of Blackfish isn’t an Attenborough-esque window into the charmed life of orcas. Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. But it’s more than that.

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