The Art of Gratitude For National Volunteer Week

With National Volunteer Week here, you might expect a message about how important volunteering is and how grateful the ones we help will be. But I’m going to flip that a bit. Here’s my hot take: the volunteers are the ones who should be most grateful! In my experience, volunteering is this wonderfully greedy activity we should all jump into. If you’ve volunteered before, you know what I am talking about. The reward of taking a moment from your life to give of yourself is so good for us; it is grounding and gratitude-inducing – which is priceless.

I’m thrilled to see our WIPA chapters offering more and more of these “greedy” volunteer opportunities to our members. Heads up, though, these WIPA volunteer events offer the opportunity to satisfy double the greed: Not only do you get that gratitude boost mentioned above, but you also experience a unique kind of WIPA networking. Networking through WIPA is always amazing, but the authentic connections you make with fellow WIPA members while working on something outside of our industry, something for the greater good, hits a bit differently. It can turn important industry networking into priceless industry bonding!