We're back (after 4 months) with another contest!
The dynamic duo who originally brought you the Random Acts Of Kindness Challenge, @natureofbeing and @rebeccaryan, have dreamed up a brand-new contest for all of you who purposefully live life to its fullest and from the heart!
The original idea was to pool our collective voting power (between the two of us).
We upvoted and/or re-steemed submissions that we really felt matched the theme or left us with a memorable lasting impression.
Interacting and Making An Effort To Help Others Is Important And It's Important For The Health Of Steemit Too.
With that said, we're prepared to upvote and/or re-steem again (at our discretion) for posts that we think are truly exceptional. This time, we are also going to sweeten the pot a little.
(Some of you will know that I happen to love pot as a cannabis coach with a penchant for storytelling and @natureofbeing always has her finger in a few pots at the same time, as she's a working artist who specializes in clay and tile. If you haven't had a chance to visit her blog, I highly recommend that you do so. She's working on a commissioned piece which is a fabulous beach scene mosaic.)
Six (6) Separate Prizes Of $5 SBD Each Will Also Be Awarded
I think that's fun and it is with great pleasure that we launch:
The Thankful Acts of Kindness Challenge
Here's what you need to do:
Write an original post that includes at least one photo that you've personally taken along with a true story about how you celebrate or have celebrated being thankful.
Here are some questions to help you think of ideas:
- Have you ever felt compelled by gratitude to commit a random act of kindness? Why and what?
- Tell a story that shows how thankfulness works in your life or in someone else’s.
- Did you buy extra food and donate it to a food bank? If so, what food did you choose to donate and why?
- Do you make a special family recipe that you only serve at certain times of the year to celebrate with friends and family? If so, why is it special to you? Could you share the recipe and its story?
- Or, have you ever invited an acquaintance to share a meal with you and your family, knowing that they would be all alone otherwise?
To Qualify:
- Use thankfulactsofkindness as your first tag. (The other 4 are yours to choose.)
- All stories must be non-fiction and contain at least one photo.
- All stories must be 150- 600 words.
- Post a link of your post as a comment on this post.
- All posts must be submitted before Thursday November 30th, 2017 at 12:00 noon E.S.T. (North America).
Winners will be announced and notified on Sunday December 3, 2017.
Thanks to each and every one of you. Best wishes are extended from our families to yours. ;)
@rebeccaryan and @natureofbeing
I don't know if my story qualifies for this contest but here is the link
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://s26.postimg.org/rxprenvkp/IMG_3940.jpg)
https://steemit.com/creativeactsofjoy/@geenaizzy/random-acts-of-kindness
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Thank you for submission @geenaizzy!
That's a beautiful, and very caring initiative that would be very easy for anyone to adopt.
Thanks for sharing this great idea with all of us.
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Thanks so much for your story, I love it! These kinds of small acts make a big difference.
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I absolutely LOVE this idea! What a fresh and wonderful contest! Resteemed... and I hope lots of people join in :-)
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Hi @woman-onthe-wing!
Thank you so much for supporting and helping this contest to get some publicity. Hopefully it will help to get the word out about it and encourage people to enter.
I hope that you and your family are keeping well, my friend. ;)
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We are! Thank you :-)
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thanks @woman-onthe-wing, love to read an entry by you too ;-)
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i hope i'm not late join this contest :D
https://steemit.com/thankfulactsofkindness/@mayorita/thankful-acts-of-kindness-learn-many-things-from-special-needs-children-0868178eb7fa6
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Thank you so much @mayorita!
I have recorded your entry. ;)
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Rebecca
I want to thank you and @natureofbeing for reaching out to Steemians with your "Thankful Acts Of Kindness" collaboration together.
It is such thoughts, planning, and works that will continue to add to the Steemit platform for many to see and to join in with you in this effort.
We do not stand still. We are constantly searching for ways to build Steemit up to greatness.
And I appreciate both of you for your part and effort in never giving up.
Together. We will see much success.
Francis
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Good morning @francisk!
This is almost a thankful act of kindness post all by itself...you are so right. To succeed, we all must keep doing and participating in "real" activities so that we can be a collective force that continues to keep feeding Steemit and adding great information, history and experiences to our blockchain.
Giving up is not in the cards for us.
Happy Thanksgiving and love to you and Pat. ;)
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Rebecca
Thank you for your love and Thanksgiving happiness.
We always seek after your love and attention.
The act of kindness that I have displayed is trying hard to get Pat to accept Steemit.
I am having some success. She will go with me to the Orlando Steemit Meetup.
Ha ha....
OK. That doesn't qualify. But it is a step in the right direction.
Better to pull together than to pull apart.
Francis
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you are so right @francisk, together SO much can be accomplished! thanks for your support.
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@rebeccaryan - Ma'm, this is an interesting topic to a contest... I hope to participate it ma'm....
To get more audience, I wish to ReSteem your post.
+W+ [UpVoted & ReSteemed]
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Oh I'd love to read an entry from you @steemwija! ;)
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I hope you participate and that it brings you more attention here!
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Great contest, I think I can participate
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Oh that's great @magnata! We'd love to see a contest entry from you. ;)
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wonderful, I look forward to reading your story!
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i think it will more competetive and huge participation maiden.
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I do hope so @sheikh27!
I'd love to read an entry from you. ;)
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I hope you write a story, I'd love to read it!
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This is such a great initiative! I am aware of the wodnerful work @natureofbeing is doing and love her compassionate, genuine nature and I am so glad to have come across your blog too. I wrote the following post sometime back and wrote it with the intention of encouraging people to do random acts of kindness daily. While it does qualify for this contest, it is a bit old and I don't have any photo to complement it as I didn't take it when that salesgirl came so it doesn't qualify for this contest. But I'll create a new post and definitely submit my entry before the deadline.
https://steemit.com/compassion/@sharoonyasir/one-act-of-kindness-every-day
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great, I'm so glad you'll participate!!
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Hi @sharoonyasir!
I just read your compassion post and it's a great story.
Do you think you could write another one before Thursday? We can't include this one because it's over a month old. I'd love to read another post that we can upvote and include in this contest. :)
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Thank you so much. Yeah I know that one doesn't qualify, but I am glad you read it. Means a lot :) I am hopefully going to be a part of this contest and will be coming up with something fast by tomorrow, but a little unsure of it.
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were you also gone?
geez.. I'm missing out on so many things so much
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Hi @englishtchrivy!!!!
So great to hear from you.
It's been crazy with all the posting going on. I'm missing so many things too, but I'm still plugging away. :)
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yes.. we haven't heard from each other for months :D
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I'm so glad to see this again! I don't have to explain to you that I'm a little worn out on contest's right now for obvious reasons lol. But I think I can handle this one and would love to participate in this in some way. I'm sure there is some story that I haven't told you that I can dig up from somewhere. And if I can't think of a recent one, then that will give me the initiative to go out and create a new story for a lucky person or family, eh? And it's very generous of both of you to offer a prize just for submitting these kinds of stories.
I like the idea with adding the picture!
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yes please another from you :-))))
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Yes ma'm, here you go!
https://steemit.com/thankfulactsofkindness/@bluelightbandit/acts-of-kindness-d80f294dac055
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Yay!! will give it a read, thanks for being the first participant @bluelightbandit!
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Yeah, nice and easy with this one @bluelightbandit. Unfortunately the timing isn't so wonderful for you, but if you can put something together we'd love to read an entry from you. :)
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Mission accomplished. 😇
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Thank you! You are the first recorded entry. ;)
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I like it
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Nice initiative.. I will take part.. I'm just glad your contest doesn't have rules like participants must resteem and upvote otherwise their entries won't be valid..
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We've tried to keep it user-friendly, and I really look forward to reading your story!
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Oh good @shreza! I do hope we see an entry from you. Our goal was to create a contest that wasn't too restrictive because we want people to be able to easily participate. I agree, there is no expectation that anyone upvote or resteem and that will not be a judgement criteria for winning a prize. :)
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@rebeccaryan,
Happy Thanksgiving day! Actually I can't post a photography at the moment! So, have no way to participate this great contest! Anyway I wish great luck for all participants! This is great!
Cheers~
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Hi @theguruasia!
Thanks for the well wishes. Are you sure on not being able to post a photo ?...it can be an older photo and you just need one as long as you took it.
I'd love to be able to read a contest submission post from you. ;)
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@rebeccaryan,
Actually I don't know what kind of photography I need to put on this contest :/ We never celebrate this "Thanksgiving day"! Really sorry Becca!
Cheers~
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Oh don't be sorry @theguruasia...we purposely left Thanksgiving Day out of the contest knowing that not every culture around the world has or observes this custom.
Your story can be about anything you were or are thankful for or how you have expressed your gratitude to someone when they have done something nice for you. :)
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exactly, well said!
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Brilliant idea! I love it @rebeccaryan.
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Thank you for reading about the contest and commenting @mariska.lubis!
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Hello @meriska.lubis, I hope you enter! love to read your story
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I think I am too late to submit. I will wait for the next one. Thank you @natureofbeing.
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it's not too late at all! you have until Thursday :-))
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I did it! I submit my writing... Hope you all enjoy it...
https://steemit.com/thankfulactsofkindness/@mariska.lubis/thankful-acts-of-kindness-humanize-others-as-for-being-human
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such a moving post @mariska.lubis, thank you so much for your story and for the noble work you are doing!
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It is a great and wonderful racer. I would like to join it a lot and support it greatly
Greetings to you my dear friend
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Hi @walidsalah!
I do hope you will enter this contest with a story of your own.
I would love to read a submission from you, my friend.
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OK my friend
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i like the initiative!
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Thanks @doitvoluntarily!
The goal was to create a challenge that wasn't going to restrict anyone for participating. :)
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Thank you @ashik785! I hope you decide to enter the contest. ;)
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of course i do ...
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Fantastic! I can't wait to read your submission. ;)
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yes, please participate!!
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