It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly time moves. We have entered the home stretch of the seven-week Communication & Fundraising in Sport course. More importantly, we are not very far from the halfway point of what has been a crazy year. The stories behind what is going on in our world are not lost on me when I work to put together the Siguenza on Sports blog. That is why I have tried over these last few weeks to incorporate current events into my posts, explaining the role sports play in those issues that our society faces. Going back to the comment I made last night about how journalism has stuck with me long after I quit working in newsrooms, my goal has always been to help people understand what is happening and why. And I hope that I have been able to accomplish that through my writings.
This week I also finished up a couple of projects that I have been working on for the course. Through my background, I have come to learn over time the significance of crafting a message that resonates with people, compelling them to take action. So I took a pretty similar approach to the projects that I have for the blog, giving a rationale for the position that I have taken.
It was mentioned in our live chat yesterday that hard work has become something of a rarity in our culture. Work ethic is an extremely valuable quality to have and I don’t want to make it sound as if I lack it, but I have found myself in the past working to the point of burnout, feeling as if my efforts still were not enough. So I have taken advice that I received early on in my television career, which was to “work smarter, not harder.” That isn’t to say that I do not care about the work that I do and that I’m not striving for improvement, it just means that I have enough awareness of my abilities and have been encouraged to focus my efforts on those.