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Happy Friday Gold Star Revolution squad members! As you know, it's time to announce our Star of the Week! Future Stars of the Week will be chosen from reader nominations!  But since we are at the beginning of this project, I will be the one nominating our Friday Star of the Week until the time when nominations from readers start to roll in. Please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on how to do that!  All recipients of the Star of the Week award who live in the US are eligible to receive a free gift from my Gold Star Award Winner collection** on Zazzle! This week's Star is one of my oldest and dearest friends! I am thrilled to introduce you to my

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad, and welcome to #tuneuptuesday! Let's face it, 2020 has been a rough year, and we still have two months to go! In these challenging times, it is more important than ever for us to take good care of ourselves. Self-care is indispensable when it comes to the awarding of gold stars. When we take care of ourselves regularly, it helps us put our best self forward in all of our daily activities and interactions, which of course will allow us to award more gold stars to ourselves. And when we are feeling good physically and mentally, it frees up our attention so that we can look outside of ourselves and notice all of the fabulous gold star efforts put forth by our

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad and welcome to Gold Star Friday! If you have been here before, you know that it's time to announce our Star of the Week! Future Stars of the Week will be chosen from reader nominations!  But since we are at the beginning of this project, I will be the one nominating our Friday Star of the Week until the time when nominations from readers start to roll in. Please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on how to do that!  All recipients of the Star of the Week award who live in the US are eligible to receive a free gift from my Gold Star Award Winner collection** on Zazzle! This week's Star is my dear friend Cindy! It i

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad! Welcome to #TuneUpTuesday! We can all use some motivation from time to time! Being in a good mood can help us notice gold star behavior in ourselves and others and can inspire us to engage in appreciation openly and more often. To assist you in getting into a good frame of mind, I thought it would be fun to share some stories with good news and positive vibes! I am hoping that there will be a little something for everyone here! I am thinking about making this a semi-regular Gold Star Revolution blog feature, so if you enjoy these stories, please let me know in the comments! #PositiveVibes #GoodNews The Highlight Pro Skydiving team, an elite team of all-fe

Hello Gold Star Squad! It's Gold Star Friday, which means it is time to announce our Star of the Week! It was awesome to have a reader-nominated Star of the Week last week, but this week we are returning to another nomination made by me. I would absolutely love to receive some additional reader nominations!!! So please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on how to do that! All recipients of the Star of the Week award who live in the US are eligible to receive a free gift from my Gold Star Award Winner collection** on Zazzle! This week's star is one of the sweetest and most caring people on the planet! I am thrilled to introduce you to my friend

Hello Gold Star Squad, and welcome to Tune Up Tuesday! In my opinion, expanding your horizons and learning something new is always a gold star activity! So I thought that this would be a fun topic to explore, and I know that my answer to this question is one that not many people would give. Like maybe no one. Buuuuuut, I would LOVE to learn to play the accordion! I have no musical training or skills whatsoever. I know that I like to listen to music, but that’s about as far as my musical knowledge goes, ha ha! So where in the world did this desire to play the accordion come from, how in the world, you might ask? Well, there is actually a “good” answer to this question. It’s because my gran

Hello Gold Star Revolution Squad! It's Friday, which means that it is time to announce our Star of the Week! As you may know, we are still in the early days of this project, which launched just a couple of months ago at the beginning of August. Because of this, I have been the person who has been providing the nominations for the Star of the Week award. From the beginning, however, my hope has always been that readers would want to send in their own nominations for Star of the Week. I am SO pleased to say that this is the first week where our Star has been chosen from a reader nomination! Hector was nominated for the award by one of his dear friends, and this is what she has to say about

It's time for Tune Up Tuesday, where we explore techniques and tools that can help put us in a more appreciative frame of mind. Has 2020 got you feeling down? I'm guessing that we have all been depressed and/or anxious at various times during this difficult, trying year. Everyone needs some cheering up from time to time. One tool that we can use to raise our spirits that doesn't require any effort at all is to listen to our favorite music! Music has been scientifically proven to help people feel happier. There's real science to back up how music can affect your overall mood. Music may even help with alleviating physical pain. Because there are so many great benefits that come along with

Hey there Gold Star Revolution Squad! It's Gold Star Friday, which means that it is time to announce our #staroftheweek! Future Stars of the Week will be chosen from reader nominations! But since we are at the beginning of this project, I will be the one nominating our Friday Star of the Week until the time when nominations from readers start to roll in. Please send me your nominations, and please see the end of this post for more details on the nomination process! This week, I am honoring one of my longest-standing and dearest friendships. I am thrilled to present this week's Star of the Week award to someone I truly consider to be my family, my friend Susan. Susan and I met a long, lon