Thread by @surnell

#Volunteering When people wanted me to describe in a phrase - what can prevent Volunteering Fatigue (unexpected extension of time devoted to a passionate cause, as against paid volunteering) - It is Disapassionate Attachment. Everything other factor is subordinated to the Cause

#Volunteering More often than not, especially in the current round of Volunteering, Young, energetic and passionate volunteers never needed any motivation as they are already inspired and self-fired. But those get fatigued are those who want to deliver perfection and fail

#Volunteering Whenever these inspirational gems talk to me about how to avoid failure in the task - I only request them not to aim for delivering perfect service, but aim to deliver acceptable service. Because what the beneficiary needs simply is unpredictable (COVID19 context)

#Volunteering Not all our stories ended up like in a fairy tale - but consolation is that it was not due to lack of effort. Not to let one setback paralyse because we then are letting down so many others waiting. Agreed we are not machines, but there is no choice but to move on

#Volunteering Working in various verticals of my current efforts, establishing the basic framework and hand it over to the successor who can definitely do a better job than us to innovate and grow the vertical better to serve more people.

#Volunteering Withdraw from the vertical once the assigned role of establishing framework is over (Dispassionate Attachment). Successor grew it in unimaginable ways
As Chandan, one of the volunteer said, Once you weather the storm, leave it to someone to manage in calm waters!

#Volunteering This time it was more enchanting. Zero Budget operation, Amorphous bunch of citizens coming together for a single cause - #BeatTheVirus & slogan being #WeWillWin it came with horde of challenges. Navigating through unfriendly system to deliver using the same system

#Volunteering Being Amorphous itself brought some amount of unpredictability, with no formal organisation structure, one that emerged on its own during the course of operation (#Swayambhu in action) and various pushes and pulls in different directions. But in the end DELIVERED

#Volunteering It may not have ended well for some families but visible gratitude of people whom we touched, only reinforced the feeling that they did not give up on the world. When they say, Thanks for being besides us & making us realise not everything in this world is bad

#Volunteering this time was very different. Losses were kind of certain - lost many of them known to me very well too, we were able to help some who emerged successfully from the havoc to come back and work with us #WeWillWin

#Volunteering With self fired young and enthusiastic Volunteers, only facilitative leadership works and best form in my opinion is Servant leadership. Transactional leadership is sure prescription for disenchantment. Show-how works better than know-how

#Volunteering a popular saying in QMS context, Never end up having a system for documentation instead of a documented system.
It is not about discipline or credit chasing (young ones are smart they see it right away), look for method in madness esp in Unpredictable situation

#Volunteering To add an important thing here- to avoid Volunteering Fatigue, consider Volunteering as a privilege not a favor we do to others. Reason why I had serious apprehensions about using the words like #CoronaSainika #CoronaWarriors etc (though I plead guilty of using it)

#Volunteering In the context, Pujya Gurudev @SriSri ji in 5 words said - #WeAreNotTheDoers. What a lovely way to remain detached while remaining committed to the cause. Designations, hierarchy, results, even the organisation - nothing would matter once in this mode

#Volunteering Thoughts of a fellow volunteer on org:
I think this is the general phase of how it happens. Be it economy or any other thing, there is a phase of really good unselfish work, followed by growth, then peaks due to vices and ego taking over, and then the downfall.