Thankful Calendar!!

I have such exciting news!! This project has been in the works for some time now, and it was oh so not easy to keep under wraps. Now that the time has come, I am so excited to finally share it with you:

The 'Thank You' Project - meaning you, me, us - we now have our own Thankful Calendar!

Huge thanks to Stephanie of Stelie Designs for helping make it happen and for making it look oh so pretty. Our 'thank you' desk calendar features fun colorful illustrations and 'thankful' quotes by real people from all over the world, so each month reminds you to give thanks and focus on the better all the while bringing color to your day and hopefully a smile to your face. Big thanks to everyone who shared their 'thanks' with me and let me use them in TTYP projects!

As The 'Thank You' Project's tag line goes - "a 'thank you' a day keeps the worries away" - we sincerely hope that the Thankful Calendar 2012 will help you keep a thankful mindset and help keep those worries away each day of the week, each week of the month and each month of the year.

I will be posting more pics of the calendar soon, right now you can take a look and get it here. Do share the excitement with me and let me know what you think! Which month is your favorite?

P.S. Happy International Thank You Day!

Something New

The blog has a new updated look! Check it out and let me know what you think. Me and my brother find it to be looking kind of newspaper-ish, but we both like it. And in fact, it's the first time my brother actually likes the look of my blog! Oh finally.

There are also some new categories on The 'Thank You' Project: thankful stories, thankful finds, thankful videos and thankful places. I feel it brings more structure to the blog!

And last but not least, I have a question! Would you guys want to see me introduce another, an all new Thankful Survey, enhanced and improved based on your requests and suggestions? Personally, I really enjoyed seeing the results of the first one, and I have a feeling the new one I have in mind is going to be even more interesting to analyze.

News & Happenings

I've got some news: The 'Thank You' Project's musings can now be followed on Twitter! Originally, I created an account just for myself, but quickly realized fitting all of my interests, professional or not, into one place wasn't such a good idea, so shortly after the @thankfulproject was created. The follow buttons on the right of the blog were updated accordingly!

Thankful Newsletter

Some of you asked me before if there was a way to follow the thanks via email... Now there is, I've just launched the Thankful Newsletter! 

You might want to sign up if you're interested in my updates but no other existing way of following this blog is convinient for you, or if you want to stay up to date with thankful happenings on various social media - after all, the newsletter is made to feature a summary of the most appreciated content from both the blog and the Facebook page. Or maybe you just like recieving newsletters. 

You can view The 'Thank You' Project's very first newsletter HERE, and if you want to subscribe, you can do so by simply clicking HERE, or by clicking the envelope icon on top right of the blog's sidebar. Either way, thank you and do let me know what you think!

P.S. Some of you have already received a copy of my Thankful Newsletter and have been automatically subcribed to it. If you're one of these people, you should know that it happened because you used The 'Thank You' Project's official email address to contact me. So please, check your inboxes, take a look at the newsletter and unsubscribe if you wish!

Space for YOUR Thanks

Hi all! First of all, thank you so much to everyone for being so supportive about the book news. It's my new challenge and my new journey, and I can't wait to be sharing more news with you as I go!

One of the things I'm looking forward to is sharing the results of the Thankful Survey once we reach its 100% response capacity (we're at 26% right now). If you still haven't done so, either click here to take part or use the "Thankful Survey" tab above to take it.

We're also working on the 'Thank You' world's re-design, so you'll be seeing some new things and features here and there. The latest addition to the blog is the new "What are YOU thankful for today?" tab above: remember how I used to ask this question at various social networking platforms? Some of the beautiful thankful answers made it to the tab and are now displayed there for all to read and be inspired! Reading those beautiful thanks always lifts my spirits, so I wanted to share them with everyone. Check the tab to see if your thankful reply is up there, or if you didn't participate last time or new to the whole thing, feel free to submit your thankful thoughts in the tab's comment section.

As I'm no longer internet-dependent, I'm thankful I can be free to do some traveling, so for the next 2 weeks I'll be unusually quite - I'll be traveling but doing a lot of writing too. Exciting!

Sept. 25. '09 - Sept. 24. '10

Yes, this is really it! 365 thanks officially given as of yesterday, 365 days of pure thankfulness in a row. And although there are still so many more things to be thankful for - gratitude is truly an unlimited dimension, something we can never give too much of - this blog project is now officially over.

To all those of you who have discovered The 'Thank You' Project just recently, or those of you who still want some dose of thankfulness by yours truly, I can suggest looking through the past entries. I've been thankful for various things FOOD & BEVERAGE more than once, so if you like food that's what you might want to check out; if you're into NATURE I've got something for you too; you can read thanks given to my native MOSCOW or other CITIES; if you need help finding the good in bad situations, take a look at my SILVER LININGS; or maybe you're interested in PETS & ANIMALS, or maybe you just like PICTURE POSTS... Or, you can take a trip down my personal FAVORITE (for whatever reasons) posts!

If you happen to stop by any of the posts and have something to say, do not hesitate to do so - I will still recieve your comment, will read it and get back to you if needed. 

In the meantime, please take a few moments to complete MY THANKFUL SURVEY - you can be more than sure that your time and input will be greatly appreciated.

To stay up-to-date with what's going on in my thankful world, you can watch this space for the news or "like" The 'Thank You' Project on Facebook.

P.S. Maybe me not having to devote time to updating this thing every day any more means more time to visit your blogs... It's all about seeing the positive side in everything, I'm telling you!..