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How Self-Doubt Might Be Holding You Back

Throughout my life, I've found it easy to doubt myself—my skills, my ability to create change, my knowledge. There's always some reason to say "no, not now, not me, I could never..." Our brains are fantastic at finding reasons why something might not

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Animal Advocacy Can Become a New Habit

Let's say there's a new habit or initiative you've really been wanting to start, but you just can't seem to bring yourself around to it. James Clear, the author of the book Atomic Habits, has some of my favorite advice for how

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Long Term Commitment to Animals is More Important Than Short Term Commitment

Life is often busy, and things frequently get in the way of us helping animals. We have to move apartments, find a new job, take care of a sick loved one, take care of ourselves, etc. etc. This is all totally normal, and no matter how much we care about

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Less, But Better—For Animals

I'm listening to the audiobook version of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, and it's been a great reminder to focus on "less, but better." This approach can help us in our personal lives as well as our work for animals. Today, my challenge

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Is The Situation Hopeless For Farmed Animals?

I was recently talking with someone about the role that hope and motivation play in our desire to get active for animals. If we believe that the situation is hopeless, and that nothing we do really makes a difference, then why should we try to help? I think a lot

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How Small Actions For Animals Can Lead to Scalable Actions For Animals

One idea for this week: small, scalable actions. 📈 Let's say you're trying to have the greatest impact possible for animals.Some projects might be big, high-impact, very difficult projects—like starting a new alt protein company or getting legislation passed at the national level. These things

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Why You Should Focus On The Most Important Thing to Help Animals

In general, I think it's probably much, much more impactful to do 1 very important thing per day than to do 10 slightly important things. 📊 🚀 When it comes to helping animals, there are endless things we could do to try to help. When we have so much that

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Here's How to Take Five Minutes to Nudge Someone Into Animal Advocacy

This week, a thought: it could only take 5–10 minutes per week for you to consistently pull people into the animal advocacy space. ⏰ Let's talk about how. Twice a week, our team here at Connect For Animals searches every corner of the web for events relevant to

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There Is No Single Strategy to End Factory Farming

I'm pretty sure there is no single, specific strategy that is going to end factory farming—rather, it's going to be a diverse cocktail of approaches that slowly gets us there. (Including some approaches that we disagree with, probably.) We will experience stagnation, setbacks, occasional major

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Why Is Connection Important for Ending Factory Farming?

Why is connection important? The whole mission of Connect For Animals is based on the idea that by connecting people together, we will end factory farming faster and help countless animals. But how exactly does connection help? First, connection keeps people motivated and in the movement. Most animal suffering is

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If You're Feeling Down, Think About the People Who Help Animals

One of the things I'm most grateful for is that there are so many people working to help animals, trying many different approaches, and working on different parts of the problem. When I feel down about the state of things, or when I feel like we're

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People Don't Want to Go to Events Alone

An interesting social dynamic is that people often don't want to go to events alone. We'll go to just about any event if our best friend is going and asks us to come. But alone? If we have to go alone, we might not even go