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Gratitude: What is the definition of gratitude ?
According to vocabulary.com :
Gratitude means thanks and appreciation. ... Gratitude, which rhymes with "attitude," comes from the Latin word gratus, which means "thankful, pleasing." When you feel gratitude, you're pleased by what someone did for you and also pleased by the results.
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Yes, well we all know gratitude. And gratitude has literally transformed my life! How? Well, I used to be a very shy person. I was very judgmental ( not in actions but in my head ) and would nearly always jump to the worst-case scenarios in my head and then react on them.
I would think people were saying bad things about me. I would make assumptions about the things people did and said. Mostly I would think awful things about life in total. Now I know its just insecurity and me just growing up. Its a fase. I think all of us know what I am talking about. If not you are a very lucky bastard, and you can go on to the vote button and stop reading. In that case thanks for the vote, I appreciate it and we will blog soon.
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If you do know what I mean maybe you will also recognise mindfulness. Being grateful for you, yourself and the life you lead. So you can change the way you think and behave. I could literally re-wire my brain, to form new pathways, new ways of thinking, and blog because I matter. I have a passion, I want to share my library, art and way of life.
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What a gift! Over the years I learnt that I could settle my thoughts, take a breather for little bit when my mind or all my opinions, or the things happening in this fast world became just too much to deal with. ( or my discord DM box was so full I thought of throwing in the towel ) just like years ago this was me using gratitude of the things in the past and my learning curve, that really could reset my brain. Gratitude has given me the gift of happiness, without changing anything else around me, other than the way I choose to think, write or act. Oh and don’t worry i also have my flaws, sometimes I also get raged about things and flat text sometimes comes on very harsh, but the meaning is real.
I started off with a little black book with things I was grateful for. I only put down one word, like family, my job, the sun. Later when I started blogging I wrote down, things worth remembering, persons i likes, quotes, blogs I needed to remember. Not a LOG book but my black BLOG book. After the blackbook was full I could really feel the shift. It became a Britt thing I was wanting to write more and felt like the act of taking the time to think about the good was becoming important to me. And also I got more blog ideas and some of the best blog started form a note in Britts Blog Book.
The research actually backs this up. It is much more effective to write down the things we are grateful for than to just think it will come. Its more real in writing. Gratitude has given me the ability to choose to think of the good and see the good, even in not so great situations.
It takes a whole lot less to make me happy now. I don’t need it because I already am. I feel as though the most simple things in life, that give us pleasure, are quickly forgotten as society or like here a blogging platform, focuses on making us strive for more and more “things” when happiness is right in front of us most of the time. But with gratitude please. Not ta,me it all for granted.
That is why I have a passion for sharing gratitude for the hive With the hive or the world for that matter cause all of you are all over the world.
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I see so little gratitude here. I see so many people that ask my or your energy because, they need it, they are just starting, they think you have enough hive or even other reasons. But gratitude is not there after the answer, vote or helping hand. Hell I even see people here blogging about their journey here and all they do and forgetting where they came from. Never forget where you came from, who lend a hand, who was straight and told you the who, what, where, when and the why. Never forget to thank a voter, a commenter or an account that decided it was time to part ways. Thank him or her for the time they did follow you. Its not your choice but it can be your grateful comment or reply that is reason for another bee here to have a great feeling. That will pay of somewhere down the line, or blogging road if you will.
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Be nice and again listen to early adapters. Yes they might know a few thing from experience.
And please : READ PEOPLE READ, I see in a lot of discord that people think its a Dropbox, perfect for a discord that has no rules, you can come by and let people know you wrote a blog. But most of the discords have staff and have rules for either engagement or promotion. Also the platform has rules, for all kinds af facets of the blogging, vlogging and plagiarism. Not for nothing, its needed, history has proven that. Don’t go there iyts a one way street you will never have the opportunity to go back.
I see things daily, and I hope with gratitute, and the willing way to learn, read, listen, and earn, hive will be the wish for all people that havent experienced the grateful feeling Hive can give them.
I hope that some of you feel a bit of where I am coming from, if not I am grateful and I appreciate that you made it to this part of my brainchild this evening. I wish all of you ofcourse the best for the way you walk the hive walk of life, but again please never forget where you came from.
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When you read this and need help, we ( I am not alone I have some appreciated friends ) run a discord called 
Last thing this is not a blog to become a people pleaser, I also have some people here, just as in my real life that are not my type, that don’t get my vote for whatever reason. Thats also the real truth here, you cannot please all Hivers and that is perfectly fine. There a so many interesting ones left.
THIS IDEA CAME TO MIND
WHEN I SAW THIS BLOG,
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Blog Date : 4 Augustus 2020