It doesn’t have to be at the end of each year. It could be at your next board meeting.
Remember, we can't be all things to all people.
Do your chamber a favor, go back five years and right write down all the new programs or initiatives you’ve started on the left side of a sheet of paper.
Now write down all the things you’ve stop doing on the right side of that same sheet of paper.
I’ll bet that the left side has a lot more items than the left. Why? Like our peers across the country they’ve had five new chairmen each with their own special project that they support.
In fact, we’re doing more with less. We’re on that conveyer belt of life. Doing the same thing over and over because that’s the way we’ve always done it.
I challenge you to add more items to the right side of the sheet. It may allow your chamber to appropriate the proper resources to the programs you decide to keep and they may become more successful.
Not only should you review what the chamber should stop doing but what are you personally going to stop doing to free up your time and burnout?
I fall in the same trap you do. I feel I must read every email, article or book for work. Well, you don’t need to read them all, just the important ones.
Your homework assignment, identify which important thing you need to focus on and put the rest in the circular file.
It’s liberating!
