The theme of this post is: Give yourself the grace to make mistakes.
Organizing a Tea Party requires a few basic decisions before you can launch into what you’ll spend most of your time doing, which is getting the word out.
The basic decisions are:
- Where will it be.
- What day will it be.
- What time of day will it be.
The thing about these basic decisions is that you pretty much have to make them before you can start getting the word out, because when you tell people about your event, the first thing they will expect to be told is:
- Where it will be.
- What day it will be.
- What time of day it will be.
And that means that you have to suck it up and make those decisions before most people who will end up volunteering to help you have even heard about that event.
- Speaking of which, bear in mind that there are 33 days until
April 15.
- That means that most people who will end up helping you and coming to the event right at this moment have never heard of you or the Tax Day Tea Parties.
By the time they do, you’ll already have made the basic decisions. And it is entirely possible that you could have chosen:
- A better location.
- A better time of day.
- A better date.
- A better list of speakers.
- Better methods of getting the word out.
So here’s my word for the day:
- Don’t let any of that bother you.
- Give yourself grace.
- Extend grace to each other.
- Don’t be a perfectionist.
And think about this:
- There’s a reason that a rag tag band of soccer moms and Club Cobra car ralliers are leading the Tax Day Tea Protest movement.
- One of those reasons is that whoever you might previously have trusted to lead, or assumed would lead, such a movement…where are they?
- If they’ve been around for awhile, they made a lot of decisions, large and small, that helped create the conditions under which those of us who have sane ideas about the economy got completely sandbagged in the November 2008 elections.
- So…you’re it, pretty much.
- Give yourself plenty of grace.
- And take care of yourself.
- Because again.
- You’re it.
