{"id":32963,"date":"2013-10-21T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32963"},"modified":"2015-07-18T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:58:18","slug":"filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling the Gratitude Bank: How a friend has upgraded my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I&#8217;m keeping score *hehe* Well, yes, I do keep score. \u00a0I have such a bad memory, that when someone does something nice for me, I don&#8217;t want to forget to be grateful for it. No, I won&#8217;t forget to thank them, but I don&#8217;t want to forget even the smallest things people do for me. I want to have reminders so I can have constant fuel for my Gratitude Bank. Here is one list:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He made me smarter about computers<br \/>\nHe freed my locked passenger seat<br \/>\nHe inspired me to begin riding my bicycle<br \/>\nHe inspired me to fix my back porch screen<br \/>\nHe inspired me to refill my salt myself<br \/>\nHe showed me how to use an html editor<br \/>\nHe got Web Studio set up and working<br \/>\nHe showed me how to change the leading and width in Photoshop<br \/>\nHe told me about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastpass.com\">lastpass.com<\/a>\u00a0to safely store multiple passwords<br \/>\nHe showed me how to save a step copying images right into Photoshop for a new file<br \/>\nHe showed me how to save a step cropping from Print Screen directly into a new file<br \/>\nBecause of something he did in in Photoshop, it made me wonder if I could duplicate it in Indesign and, using drop shadow and outer glow, and I could.<\/p>\n<p>As a former carpal tunnel kinda gal, it is huge for me when someone can show me shortcuts that save me keystrokes. I appreciate having friends who upgrade my life. That&#8217;s why I always want them to feel free to speak out. \u00a0Something they say randomly may be just the thing I need to hear for a big upgrade in my life. \u00a0All I see around me are teachers and gurus, every thing, everyone. My gratitude bank overfloweth like wow. I&#8217;m so freaken grateful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Filling the Gratitude Bank: How a friend has upgraded my life&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Filling%20the%20Gratitude%20Bank:%20How%20a%20friend%20has%20upgraded%20my%20life&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/filling-the-gratitude-bank-how-a-friend-has-upgraded-my-life\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I&#8217;m keeping score *hehe* Well, yes, I do keep score. \u00a0I have such a bad memory, that when someone does something nice for me, I don&#8217;t want to forget to be grateful for it. No, I won&#8217;t forget to thank them, but I don&#8217;t want to forget even the smallest things people do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32963"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41948,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions\/41948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}