{"id":3864,"date":"2015-11-23T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2016-11-28T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T19:04:46","slug":"being-thankful-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/being-thankful-is-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Being thankful is cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanks-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thanks-1.png\" alt=\"thanks-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3874\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe had a healthy debate at our Monday meeting over the merits of Cool Whip as a pumpkin pie topping. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fresh whipped cream is the best, but the whole discussion was fun and made me grateful for working with a fantastic group of people. <\/p>\n<p>It also got me thinking about a piece in The New York Times that came out over the weekend about <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html?_r=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actively practicing gratitude<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In it, Arthur C. Brooks points out that one path towards a happier life is actively expressing gratitude for the mundane, everyday things we take for granted:<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, be grateful for useless things. It is relatively easy to be thankful for the most important and obvious parts of life \u2014 a happy marriage, healthy kids or living in America. But truly happy people find ways to give thanks for the little, insignificant trifles. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s easy to overlook the things that just work, day in and day out. So, with Brooks\u2019 advice in mind, there are a lot of smaller things we are grateful for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Services chugs away, every day, without fail<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are lucky to be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/seattle-wont-next-silicon-valley-thats-great-charles-mount\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">headquartered in Seattle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bonus: our office overlooks the scenic Puget Sound)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/why-gym-memberships-workplace-perk-i-gladly-provide-charles-mount?trk=prof-post\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CrossFit gym<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> right across the street (so we can work off that pie)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But most of all, we are grateful and thankful for you, our customers. We provide file storage and sharing to more than 1.2 million business users, and we appreciate your business. We are thankful for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/eight-years-one-mission-build-business-charles-mount\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">past eight years<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of growth and look forward to expressing gratitude for many more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now pass the Cool Whip.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a healthy debate at our Monday meeting over the merits of Cool Whip as a pumpkin pie topping. 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