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In Upbeat Livingsm, gratitude is a major dimension of living, creating, and getting the life you want. As it happens, today, I am completing a 31-day writing challenge, the Ultimate Blog Challenge, and I am feeling overwhelming gratitude. Here is some of what I’m experiencing gratitude for.
- The organizers of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, Paul Taubman and Danni Ackerman, for setting it up again and running it every 3 months, for a full month each time.
- The discipline of assembling the components of an article every day: theme, photo or 2, poster, quotes, text, format, publishing, sharing. I can see that time and structure translating to my next project: getting my new website done. That seems much easier now. Bite off, chew, bite off, chew.
- The core participants, who teamed along most steadily and supported each other throughout. I will miss interacting with them, but I’ll keep up with some who have become friends. I am grateful to have gotten to know them better, and to count on their values and sensibilities. A few of these are Ken Weliever, Jeanine Byers, Vicki Maheu, Cindy Browning O’Donnell, Martha DeMeo, Tammy Rome, Karen Lee Banks, Alice Gerard, Maria Silvo, Nick Roseblade, Alana Mautone, Nicole Bianchi, and Paul Taubman.
- An odd feeling of being motivated by my success in systematically completing this Challenge. So often we think motivation breeds success. But I’m very present, just now, to the opposite effect: success breeds motivation.
- A new cheery comfort with using only closed-top mugs in my office. It may sound minor, but it eliminates a possible repeat of the Great Hot Chocolate Incident of 2011. It’s saving massive future time and money.
- A refreshed collection of articles on my blog. Blog visitors will generally start from the most recent article, and even if they read through 31 articles, they will be seeing my freshest and best work. I expect to continue blogging weekly, midweek, with my spiritual email still going out on Sunday evenings.
- Google listings! Google has picked up some of my articles and a number of my images! It’s the articles with the most comments that it shows. So those comments, friends, are literally very valuable. Huge thanks to anyone who read and commented on my articles this month, and always.
So I’m whelmed with joy and overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you! I look forward to our further adventures. Will you keep me posted on your journey? And in gratitude, that’s Upbeat Living!
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- Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert. She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. She is the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), plus the 2013 book, Peace Within: Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine, available through her office. Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.
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V.J.Maheu said:
I am grateful for so many of the same things in regards to this challenge, and I learned a little more about SEO and website building too, which is great since I am building my own website slowly but surely, and don’t have any formal training in how to do so!
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Kebba Buckley Button said:
Vicki, I understand. I very highly recommend my mentor, Christina Hills, for learning how to create your own WordPress website. I can connect you if you like. All the best!
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V.J.Maheu said:
Yes, please do connect us… I am doing pretty well on my own, but there are just a few things that I would really like to understand better.
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Martha said:
What a great blog Kebba! I’m so glad I stumbled onto you also, I have so enjoyed reading and sharing your blogs. I clicked the “like” on the side of the page, I like that feature, I may have to check it out! I know I’ll be reading more of your blogs and I’ll looking forward to the last UBC of the year in October!
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Kebba Buckley Button said:
Martha, thank you so much! I look forward to reading more from you, also! And may I send you a sample of my Sunday evening email for spiritual people? Blessings!
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Martha DeMeo said:
Reblogged this on The Martha Review and commented:
A great blog post from a UBC blogger friend.
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Kebba Buckley Button said:
Martha, thanks huge for reblogging!
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Tammy Rome said:
LOVE the focus on gratitude. It’s amazing how much our mood can improved and the hassles of every day fade away when we take time to focus on what’s to be thankful for. Congrats on making it to the end of the challenge!
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Cindy said:
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts this month, and I plan to continue. Your posts are timely and offer wonderful insights. This Challenge has been a new addition to my site, and I am already looking forward to the next one in October. Like you, I have been exposed to several other blogs which I might otherwise not have found. What an amazing month it’s been!!
Ok, I’m a tad curious about the Great Hot Chocolate Incident of 2011…perhaps I missed a post on that one?? 🙂
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Maria Silvo said:
You’ve always inspired me with your wisdom each time I visited your blog. Thanks for a wonderful experience and let’s keep in touch. Wishing you the best! 🙂
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Anna Jeanine said:
Thanks so much for mentioning me!! It really feels like a community as the month goes on, and I definitely looked forward to reading your encouraging posts and connecting with you. I hope you’ll be back in October! 🙂
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