{"id":705,"date":"2023-03-28T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-03-28T20:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:53:05","slug":"july-21-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/july-21-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"July 21, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a positive moment hat trick this week.\u00a0 \u201cM\u201d, my granddaughter, came to visit.\u00a0 She had just got home the day before from 3 weeks at camp.\u00a0 She was a buzz with telling us about all the activities.\u00a0 Situated on the couch between my husband and me, with the iPad on her lap, she proceeded to give us a tour of the camp, borrowing the slide show available on the camp website.\u00a0 She described the buildings, where the bonfire was situated, and the part of the lake she swam in, and on and on.\u00a0 It was just delightful.\u00a0 Score that positive moment number one.<\/p>\n

After the slide show I asked if she received the letters that I wrote to her.\u00a0 \u201cM\u201d explained that she got this letter and she could not figure out who sent it.\u00a0 Why was someone writing to her about ringtones and clouds; she couldn\u2019t identify the return address, so she asked her sister who was also at camp.\u00a0 \u201cD\u201d told her, in her most beloved older-sisterly way, \u201cIt\u2019s grandma, you idiot.\u201d It was just hilarious, both the story and \u201cM\u201d\u2019s rendition.\u00a0 I must say my immediate reaction was a feeling of invisibility, but this lasted a nanosecond, the tiniest measure of time.\u00a0 This feeling was overtaken by the thought that she would remember this story for a long time, maybe even share with children of her own one day, and because she would recall the time she went to camp and got this crazy letter from her grandmother that I too will be remembered. Score that positive moment number two.<\/p>\n

As we were laughing at this, my husband says, \u201cHere\u2019s your positive moment.\u201d\u00a0 I knew it at the time, and it was extra special that my husband saw the same thing.\u00a0 It seems that my practice of identifying these positive moments has impact not only for me but for those around me. Score that positive moment number three, hat trick.<\/p>\n

I am not sure what strength I utilized other than giving my granddaughter the floor and listening<\/strong> to her intently.\u00a0 The enjoyment and laughter<\/em> was felt by all three of us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a positive moment hat trick this week.\u00a0 \u201cM\u201d, my granddaughter, came to visit.\u00a0 She had just got home the day before from 3 weeks at camp.\u00a0 She was a buzz with telling us about all the activities.\u00a0 Situated on the couch between my husband and me, with the iPad on her lap, she …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,11,8,13,12,7,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example","7":"tag-articulatingyourstrengths","8":"tag-positivemoments","9":"tag-positivepsychology","10":"tag-positivity","11":"tag-strength","12":"tag-strengths","13":"tag-strengthsfocusedpractices","14":"anons"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Barb","author_link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I had a positive moment hat trick this week.\u00a0 \u201cM\u201d, my granddaughter, came to visit.\u00a0 She had just got home the day before from 3 weeks at camp.\u00a0 She was a buzz with telling us about all the activities.\u00a0 Situated on the couch between my husband and me, with the iPad on her lap, she…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}