{"id":139,"date":"2005-09-30T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2005-09-30T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T21:02:27","slug":"be-generous-with-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/30\/be-generous-with-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Be generous with appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lesson today from a fellow PTA mom.<\/p>\n<p>She and I put together a Volunteer Party at the school to recruit volunteers. After the rather successful event, she <em>called me<\/em> to thank me. She did not wait till I saw her at school the next day. She did not call me to ask me to do something for follow-up (which we still have to do). She called with the expressed purpose of thanking me. (Honestly, I thought she did more work than I did.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned that I should take an extra step to thank people every time I see them doing something nice.<\/p>\n<p>I learned I should not take people for granted. Their time and efforts are valuable. They deserve an extra word of thanks from me. <\/p>\n<p>I learned to not wait until a convenient time to thank someone. Just a quick phone call means a lot. <\/p>\n<p>I learned not to think of who I can ask to do something, but rather think of who I can thank for having done something already. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a lesson today from a fellow PTA mom. She and I put together a Volunteer Party at the school to recruit volunteers. After the rather successful event, she called me to thank me. She did not wait till I saw her at school the next day. She did not call me to ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}