Richer, Thinner, Smarter, Younger?
For our U.S. readers, the Labor Day holiday weekend has marked the effective end of summer and, vacations over, fundraisers are back on the job.
To ease your re-entry, today’s post presents no mental heavy lifting. Just some fun stats.
Harris Interactive recently polled Americans on which they would most want to be — richer, thinner, smarter or younger?
The largest group “wish” was … drum roll … richer, at 43%. That’s Americans for you! Then thinner at 21%, smarter at 14%, and younger at 12%.
I was disqualified from the survey for insisting that I wanted to be all of these.
Here’s more detail …
Actually, maybe there is a nonprofit insight here.
Which would you like your organization to be?
- Richer – speaks for itself!
- Thinner – as in “lean & mean”, producing more bang for the buck
- Smarter – in all it does
- Younger – as in “the glory days” when anything and everything was possible!
Tick one!
Tom
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I’m going with smarter. When obstacles come, and they will, I want to be able to figure a way past them. Can’t do it if your just young, can’t do it if your throwing money at it alone, thinner is just looks.
Plus if your smarter (depends on what your starting with!) you may eventually end up rich.