Hi all!

First of all I'd like to thank all Steemers for their HUGE community participation and contribution to our Project. It's been a good beginning! I'd like to congratulate all of you that did for taking part, and hope that you're one step closer to better writing and more in tune to interpersonal thinking after last weeks challenge. 

Updates as of today will be daily.

Last weeks winners:

• https://steemit.com/tattoo/@beanz/my-tattoo-stands-for-the-evil-that-in-our-nature: $93.22
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@hanshotfirst/break-ups-industrial-clubs-and-life-changing-moments-it-takes-courage-to-strive-for-something-spectacular: $92.08
• https://steemit.com/life/@boosje123/being-visually-impaired-technology-has-made-it-possible-for-me-to-study $71.71
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@lscottphotos/lscottphotos-learning-to-love-the-hard-way-project-positivity-challenge-1: $19.22
• https://steemit.com/story/@williambanks/an-angel-for-christmas: $136.85
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@pinoytravel/talking-about-positivity-witnessing-the-aftermath-of-super-typhoon-yolanda-haiyan-yes-it-can-kill-us-but-not-our-faith-and-hope: $78.65
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@sykochica/kicking-depressions-ass: $81.93
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@kiwideb/how-i-overcame-my-fears-of-water-and-public-speaking: $6.22
• https://steemit.com/drawing/@kiddarko/original-prismacolor-artwork-burning-soul-by-kiddarko: $72.00
• https://steemit.com/life/@aldentan/a-short-message-on-tuning-down-our-ego-already-so-we-can-be-happy: $65.50
• https://steemit.com/running/@biophil/that-time-i-ran-an-ultra-marathon-positivity-challenge-1: $43.71
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@quinneaker/a-story-of-my-dark-days-in-life-living-with-debilitating-fear-my-most-terrifying-experience-and-overcoming-my-greatest-fear-for: $66.49
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@shadowspub/turning-bullying-into-lemonade-positivity-challenge-1: $26.26
• https://steemit.com/poetry/@merej99/fire-of-hope-original-poem-and-photograph: $9.04
• https://steemit.com/life/@giantbear/happily-never-after-the-story-of-my-divorce-project-positivity: $1.19
• https://steemit.com/positivity/@saramiller/a-tale-from-the-darkness-how-i-overcame-my-sister-s-death-and-found-my-purpose-in-life: $37.30

Awesome. Truly awesome.

Updates

It's been a good beginning. So far we've hit the ground running and that's good for us. A day after the announcement and we had began our Project.

We're in the middle of developing a cohesive community in project-positivity on steemit chat. @sycochica has been kind enough to collaborate with us and has in turn been helping us moderate our channel. I'm also in #steemprentice if anyone has any questions or needs any help! We're here to help

We're also continually looking for fresh and new ideas to implement into Project Positivity as we progress. So far, we've already had an absolute plethora of suggestions for the next challenge. And we've listened to you and we plan to incorporate it into challenge 2 below.

#writing-exchange has rocketed off to a blistering start. Everyone is collaborating and sharing their work as we'd hoped. Plenty more to come.

That's it for now. We'd have liked to have brought you more but my partner has been unwell for the latter half of the week, meaning my focus has been divided. Here's for a fresh start this week!

Challenge 2:

This week will be different. We failed last week to honour every other artist on the platform. Our last challenge was specifically aimed at a certain niche, and whilst we were trying to encourage people to introspect, we didn't take into account the other forms of art that people use to express themselves. We had a lot of suggestions and many discussions over this.

So:

From today, 03/10/2016 to 10/10/16 please can you use your skills to create a piece of work that makes 'you' happy. Not what you think creates happiness for other people. I want you to think of something that would make you happy if you were to create it for yourself.

Please remember

• No steem/steemit tags
• And please put positivity in your first tag - just so we know where to look.

Good luck!!