Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day
Lots of important things depend on volunteer labor - local civic groups, open source software projects, and more.
Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is about checking with yourself, and ending the commitments you need to end – maybe by taking a break, or by rotating it on to someone else, or by sunsetting a project.
Take inventory. Take twenty minutes -- maybe with a friend -- and create a responsibility inventory. Go through your accounts and look through your calendar, emails and tabs, so you can make a list templated like:
Once you've decided to end a commitment, say so publicly. Feel free to point to this page as a way of saying: I need to put a few things down. I hope other people pick them up and carry this work forward. But even if no one does, I need to stop, or at least pause for a while.
If you're having trouble letting go, read Christie Koehler's set of 9 "questions I ask myself to help navigate the process of identifying whether or not it’s time to let go of a project". If you're worried that you're being selfish, consider this counterpoint by Mary Gardiner.
