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Menu Blog About Fundraising Leadership Manifesto Speaker Bio Contact Subscribe Check it Twice July 18, 2023 July 18, 2023 ~ Sasha ~ Leave a comment About a decade ago, I sent out an important email with a major mistake in it. The blowback was a mess.
Someone I was working with at the time—a former journalist who had both more wisdom and life experience than I had—told me that I was overdue for a practice that she’s employed for decades: any time she had something important to send out, she would hold off on sending it for a few hours or even a day, and come back to it a second time. She said that I needed a structural fix to my process, or I’d make that same sort of awful mistake time and again.
She was right. I’ve employed that tactic ever since and it’s saved me countless similar blunders.
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