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Join us for a glass of wine in the Brag Basket

By Small Biz Survival

The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one April 19-21, 2013. What good news will you add to the brag basket? I think we could all use some good news after a week with too much bad.

How can we have gone this long without doing a basket full of wine?! Photo by giulio nepi [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

How can we have gone this long without doing a basket full of wine?! Photo by giulio nepi [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire others. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing.

What can you do in the Brag Basket?

  • introduce yourself
  • share some great news from this week
  • congratulate a friend
  • laugh about something wonderful that you tried that failed
  • applaud for each other

Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. It lets you meet each other a bit. Reading each others’ stories brings us a bit closer to being a community.

How does it work? You write a comment on this post. We all cheer, and everyone feels great.

This is not an ad. (I delete the ads.) If you talk more about the people involved than the things, you’ll be fine.

It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.

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April 19, 2013 Filed Under: brag basket

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  1. Barry Moltz says

    April 19, 2013 at 10:21 am

    Passed my karate black belt test! 10 years of effort! Taking the long view…

    • Becky McCray says

      April 19, 2013 at 11:21 am

      Good work, Barry! Congratulations! :)

  2. Heidi Miller says

    April 19, 2013 at 11:25 am

    After a year of adding Analyst Relations to my job description, I was on a call this week in which the prospect found out about the company and products through our Gartner analyst. Yippee!

    • Becky McCray says

      April 19, 2013 at 12:12 pm

      Yay! Congratulations, Heidi. That’s another example of a long-term effort paying off.

  3. Tom Egelhoff says

    April 19, 2013 at 4:30 pm

    I’m happy to report that I’ve joined Small Business Survival in that very exclusive club of being in the Top 100,000 web sites in the US. Small Towns Rule.

    • Becky McCray says

      April 20, 2013 at 6:55 pm

      Tom, congratulations! You’re another example of long-term perspective.

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