THE STEEMIT #HUG-CHALLENGE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE ON HOW TO SHOW LOVE AND GET LOVE BACK

Hello Friends,

Last week Sunday, I published the first #Hug-Challenge ever on this blockchain. Incase you missed it, >> SEE POST HERE.

The responses were amazing. People loved the idea of doing something good for a random stranger who they hadn't discovered before. Also importantly, there was a huge motivation for them to show this type of love to be cashed in SBD.

WHALE HUGGING!

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I was reading The Principles of Happiness by Ryuho Okawa. In this book, I discovered that there were four things that needed to be done in order to attain longlasting happiness. They include:-

• Love that gives
• Wisdom
• Self-Reflection and
• Progress.

For the purpose of this article, I will talk about the First Principle of Happiness - Love That Gives - let me quote from the book .

“Looking at the suffering in the world, it is clear that most of it springs from pain caused by the attitude of taking love. People only think of what they themselves want and this desire leads to pain. Rather than concentrating on what you want, think about what you can give to others. Then you will find that as soon as you try doing this, your worries disappear.”

So many times people want to be happy but they use the wrong approaches. You want to be happy, you buy a car. You want to be happy you work hard to make money. You want to be happy, you marry a beautiful woman or rich man. You want to be happy, you get all the latest fashion trends in your wardrobe. But thinking about these things, you can feel the shallowness of the happiness. When you get something through shallowness, it never lasts long. It just skims the surface and in the end you may lose the other most important things.

What if we could be more self-less? Like the quote above says, all your worries would disappear the moment you start focusing on giving rather than taking. Always ask yourself:

What can I give?

instead of

What can I get?

If you can answer that first question sincerely, it means you are solving a problem. A simple rule of thumb you have to remember is that once you start solving a human problem, you must notice the following things will start happening to you:

• Happiness will start following you.
• Love will start looking for you.
• Peace will become your friend.
• And most definitely, that money (sbd) you are chasing everyday will start chasing you!

There are many living examples to this testimony. I happen to be one of them.

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Take a look at my STEEMIT LOVE FORMULAR:

LOVE = HUGS = SBD

*It may look so simple but therein lies a huge amount of untapped potential that we all have for love.

• This formular can go in any direction. You may decide to show love by hugging someone today and earn sbd or you may decide to use your sbd to hug someone which ultimately becomes love.

Now let's get back to the #Hug-Challenge! What exactly is a HUG?

In the real life, hug is defined as:

to hold someone close to your body with your arms, usually to show that you like, love, or value them.
Online Cambridge Dictionary

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We are going to tap the figurative meaning of that hug and apply it to Steemit by answering this question:

How do I show someone that I like, love or value him/her here on Steemit?

Keyword here is "show". We didn't say how do you tell because saying it without showing it is too shallow. We want to give someone a deep hug he/she will remember forever. Here are the ways I thought of:

• Take your time and actually read through his/her work: so many times, people are so in a hurry. They just skim important writeups or worse still upvote without reading. That time you spent to ingrain that work will never be lost I promise you.

• Give a feedback that will affect the individual positively: this comes very easily if you have done the above very well. Think about this, according to the Bible, "out of the abundance of the heart, a man speaks". The heart is made of what you input into it. So if you can input this person's article and write something about it in the comment section, he/she must feel loved. If you didn't read his/her work, it shows because then you are going to be shallow in your response. Shallowness never works.

• Upvote if you can: this is another very important way of giving a hug here on this platform. It becomes most important when you see that someone with a very good article is getting less than $1 in upvote. Sometimes you may even see very sound original content with $0.00 upvotes. That's pretty messy if you ask me. No matter how little of upvote you give this type of person, its going to matter alot.

• Resteem if you can: if you take it upon yourself to find under-rated works in your niche and resteem for more audience to see. It helps. You never know who you may be putting a smile on his/her face with this.

For me, the first 2 ways of hugging are paramount. Once you can show love the way I described already, you are well on your way to making an impact in someone's life.

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SO ARE WE GOING TO SCOUT AROUND FOR ANY RANDOM STRANGER AND SHOW LOVE?

Well, YES in a way.

The #Hug-Challenge is going to serve 3 major purposes:

• 1° Find people who aren't getting much love and give them a hug.
• 2° Curate original quality content that isn't getting much love and hug the author.
• 3° Reward those who hug others.

There are also some other benefits which include:

• Making new friends.
• Supporting each other's projects and works via networking.
• Building a stronger community.

I believe that if we can do these 3 things well via #Hug-Challenge, most of the problems that we are having on Steemit is going to melt. Many attimes, we see newbies who come to this platform with so much motivation. So many of them that aren't rugged like us may drop out on the way due to low morale. We need to learn to support each other with our words and actions. We need to breakdown all barriers of steem power, reputation, social class, race, country, religion etc and begin to build bridges.

Many minnows need love. Many minnows need a good hug as motivation to continue being active on this platform. Lets be the agents of change in this new era of Steemit. Lets build a wonderful new community where everyone is active because they have met a family of supportive people. Let's unite for this one purpose - to give a good hug.

I am very much confident that if we spread this positivity all round, the whole steemit community shall grow like a manured plant; evergreen, happy and full of life. So do all you can to spread this message. Upvote. Comment. Resteem. until someone else hears about it. We also need your support in terms of SBD/STEEM/STEEM POWER in order to increase the motivation. Whatever you can do to help will be so much appreciated.

Tomorrow is the D-Day. The #Hug-Challenge must take place every Sunday. We will use the Holy day to bless each other's lives and create a continous cycle of goodness here on Steemit. So endeavour to join me and others tomorrow as we announce the results of last week's challenge and introduce #Hug-Challenge 2. See you soon!

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Cheers!!!

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I remain me, my mouth and eye @nairadaddy aka SteemDaddy. My aim is to leave you better than I found you everyday!