{"id":2259,"date":"2011-01-08T12:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:42:35","slug":"gratitude-fuels-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/gratitude-fuels-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude fuels community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.versiondaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Gratitude-and-happiness-The-link-based-on-neuroscience-720x380.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please DON\u2019T buy that next book on \u201cHow to build a community,\u201d or that yet-another-book on \u201cJoining the conversation.\u201d Here\u2019s something you can do right now, right where you are, and you don\u2019t even need a book to show you how: when that next person walks into your office, calls you on the phone, or sends you an email, stop to seriously ponder the question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>\u201cWhy am I glad this person is on the planet?\u201d<\/strong><\/center>When you have the answer to that question, take it from your mind, <strong>put it into words, and give those words to that person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you make a habit of focusing on things for which you\u2019re grateful and then make it a habit of expressing that gratitude through every available media (and especially face-to-face), you\u2019ll build that community you seek. And, hey, even if you don\u2019t built a huge community, guess what? You\u2019ll be grateful for the community you do have.<\/p>\n<p>You might just be amazed what a lot of gratitude and a small community can do together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gratitude fuels community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Pennington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Please DON\u2019T buy that next book on \u201cHow to build a community,\u201d or that yet-another-book on \u201cJoining the conversation.\u201d Here\u2019s something you can do right now, right where you are, and you don\u2019t even need a book to show you how: when that next person walks into your office, calls you on the phone, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/gratitude-fuels-community\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,54],"tags":[939,31,938,936,937],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-treypennington","tag-being","tag-community","tag-expression","tag-gratitude","tag-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}