You can do hard things . Nonprofits love this saying. And trust me, I love it, too… sometimes. I say it to my kids when they need to clean their rooms or to myself when I need to send an invoice (eep!). But it’s also becoming the nonprofit world's version of toxic positivity. ‘Do it for the mission’ seems to make it okay to put your own needs and work/life balance aside. Despite what our work culture tells us, working for a nonprofit isn’t about struggle and self-denial. But

I told someone the other day I was a nonprofit consultant and she literally yelled ‘what?!’ into the phone like I had just invented all...