Everyday Bliss gets an Award for my 300th post!!!

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MOXIE- The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage; vigor; verve; pep. [Moxie Week begins here. Click for this week's Bliss Initiative.] And a little dash of Gratitude too!

I actually cleaned my house in lieu of writing this post. That should tell you something. I am not a huge "milestone" gal so the fact that this is my 300th post kind of snuck up on me. If you have been following my blog since the beginning you know that there was no mention of a 100th or 200th.  I just don't normally think in those terms. This is a year long project so my perspective has been on my 13 week quarters and each cycle through the virtues but since my guest blogger from yesterday was celebrating her 100th post I thought "Hmmm, wonder how many I have done?" and there it was, 300 was today.

As soon as I realized it I suddenly had the urge to mark it in some way and that is when the writers block hit. I've been doing everything and anything not to write this post. It is primarily because I think it is supposed to be particularly fabulous and I don't want to let you down.

Then today I received a little email telling me I had won a blog award. To be perfectly frank I've been a little bit on the fence about how I feel about the whole award thing but I figured I would just wait until I got one to figure it out. Then months and months passed and it never happened. You know that joke about not wanting to be a member of any club that wanted you... I was sort of in that place! You know, deflecting the fact that while I thought the whole "award" thingy could get in the way of so called "serious blogging" I was a little sad that no one thought my blog was worthy. 

Yikes! here it is Moxie week and all my teen age angst issues have decided to rear their heads! Pretty funny how this stuff continues to live on an on in us! On that note, to update you all regarding my little playground incident earlier in the week, I really feel I have undergone a transformation because of the comments so many of you shared. When I finished my post on Tuesday, I really wasn't sure how I might act in the future but now I am convinced I will make choices my heart will not regret. I said at the end of that post that Moxie is NOT strong in this one but because of all your support I can honestly say Moxie is rising in me. Thank you for that!

Back to the Award. Because of it's fortuitous arrival here on the eve of my 300th post it seemed positively fitting and particularly celebratory to play along! So thank you Katina, I will accept this award and am really delighted to share it with some of my favorite bloggers.

I received this award from Katina over at Peaceful Divas.  One of my inquiry web searches landed me on her terrific blog where she has an thoroughly inspiring take on tackling the mundane. I had already decided that I wanted to introduce you all to her next Order week and here she comes along and gives me my very first blog award. What really makes this award special to me is that I wasn't really even aware that she read Everyday Bliss on a regular basis. Gives me hope there may be more of you silent types out there actually do read regularly! So thank you so much Katina. I so appreciate knowing that you read and enjoy my blog.

When this award is given to you, there are a couple of things you are supposed to do:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award: (a little linky love never killed anybody!)

Check!

2. Sum up my blogging philosophy, motivation and experience in 5 words:

Bliss, Accountability, Inspiration, Love and Joy.

So sweet! Look how Katina answered this question:

Ok that is really hard to do but I chose: discipleship, empowerment, joy, sistahood, and moxie.
(I just love Everyday Bliss' definition of moxie: the ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage; vigor, verve, pep).
Thank you, thank you again!

3. The final step is for me to choose 10 other blogs whom I think are"Blogs With Substance".

I'm so excited to bestow this award on the following blogs. I would consider all of them Blogs With Substance. They offer their readers an interesting point of view and they make me laugh and think about things I wouldn't otherwise experience. I enjoy reading these blogs and they motivate me to become a better blogger.

Here is my list in no particular order:

BLissed-Out Grandma

LifeUnity

Optimal Optimist

Welcome to My World

I Like to Fish

Just Jingle

we bloom here

Gravity of Motion

NieNie Dialogues

Words of Wisdom

Please dear friends I have nominated for this award, feel no pressure to do anything with it. If you would like to play along, of course that would be delightful, but if your blog plate is already too full for one more thing do of course I understand. Just know I put you on this list because I enjoy what you provide and my blogging experience is richer for having you in it. Thank you.

On this grateful note... and considering that June 11th is the National Hug Holiday I would like to send out a virtual hug to all my readers. I really am thankful to have shared these 300 posts with you and if you are willing would love to share 300 more!

Next Post: Acts of bravery and a little pig

My 13 bliss virtues are 

joy, order, creativity, passion, whimsy, serenity, inquiry, community, 

romance, gratitude, moxie, humility, and surprise.



This week we are studying moxie. Next week it is Humility.