It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the need for growth. Especially when growing your organization is a priority for you. There’s lots to do and not enough time to do it.
So, make things easier on yourself.
Prioritise what you most need to do to grow your community. Then make a list of what you need to do to sustain the community you have.
Even when maintenance of day-to-day activities takes over much of your time, keep growth always in your view.
Although it can be difficult to manage regular activities along with marketing to a larger community. It’s about balance.
To reach that balance, sustainability becomes essential. So, create ways to incorporate a growth mindset into regular maintenance activities. Integrate the two.
Being overwhelmed by the need for growth can lead to inaction. People don’t know where to start. And you can’t grow your organisation all by yourself.
So, start by getting others on board. Get your audience on board. Make it part of their vision too.
A growing community has an active energy about it. People enjoy being part of something that is looking, planning, and moving to the future. It’s engaging.
The more you share the excitement of growth with others the more they can be a part of it. And the less it all rides on your shoulders.
If growth isn’t in the cards for you right now, that’s fine. If maintenance needs all your time, then focus there. You can revisit things again later.
Strengthening the core of your organisation needs to happen first. Then it can grow out from there.
So, try not to be overwhelmed by the need for growth. Change doesn’t have to happen all at once, it rarely does. You want sustainable growth anyway. And that happens little by little, day by day.
So, what can you do to move your organisation forward? What can you do today? Start there.