How rich would you be if you were given 100 dollars for all the mistakes that you made in your life? My guess is that you’ll be very rich. For me, my name may very well be the top name on the 2019 Forbes list, before Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps you are wondering what moved\nme to ask this question. Well, it\u2019s because I have spent the last few weeks\nworking on something that clearly required professional expertise, without the\nhelp of a professional. Before you jump to conclusions and blame me for my\nactions or tell me that I had no business doing what I did, listen to my side\nof the story first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few weeks ago, I had a meeting with\nmy team on how to write a proposal for a grant to help us achieve our\norganizational goals, and objectives. As I am the director of the Pet and\nAnimal Welfare Organization, the leadership roles automatically fall on my\nshoulders. So, I gave a short speech on how we need to write the best proposal\nfor the grant. This is what I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrom the get-go fundraising\ntechniques and trends have been the driving force behind any successful\nnonprofit organization. Since we are a nonprofit organization, we must depend\non grants and fundraisers to carry out our projects and tasks. For this reason,\nwe must write the best proposal for this grant; this is not a choice; it’s a\nnecessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Great speech, right? It felt good too. One of my teammates, Tom, gave a suggestion that we should hire a professional grant writer to help us draft the grant proposal. I was like; “Hey guys, we don’t need to use a pro to do this. I mean, how hard can it be?\u201d Thinking of it now, I wished I had listened to Tom. But being the hothead that I am, I politely refused Tom\u2019s offer. With my mind made up, I decided to write the proposal by myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turns out I didn\u2019t know anything\nabout proposal writing. No problem, I have the internet. So, I went online to\neducate myself on the matter. As expected, I found some useful materials on the\nsubject. But then again, 85% of these materials referred me back to a\npro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My research on the subject spanned three days; and by the time I was done with the last piece, four days had breezed by. If not for Susan, my secretary and personal assistant, who came by my office to remind me about a meeting that I thought was scheduled for next week but was to be held that very day. I wouldn\u2019t have known that I was missing out on other important events. In the bid to write the best proposal for the grant, I have abandoned other projects and tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth of the matter is that I didn\u2019t consider the amount of time that I would need to invest in the grant proposal. I guess I had it coming from the start and I had set myself up to fail. I took a minute to reminisce on my current predicament looking for a way out. Knowing for a fact that, I would have been better off hiring a professional grant writer for the job, I decided to do just that. As expected, everything went back to normal when we hired a grant writer to help us draft the proposal. I was able to focus on other important projects and tasks while the grant writer took care of the grant proposal for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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