Shoe Soles for Souls - @Soles4Souls

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Changing the World, One Pair of Shoes at a Time

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Soles4Souls. "Soles4Souls is a Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes these shoes free of charge to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away over 10 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently donating one pair every 7 seconds.) The shoes have been distributed to people in over 125 countries, including ..." ~ Soles4Souls 

Read more about Soles4Souls at Changing the World - One Pair at a Time®. The following Soles4Souls video features a special "thank-you" to everyone that went with them to Haiti, in July 2010, to help them "Change The World One Pair At A Time!".

Thank-you @Soles4Souls (another of my @DelynMiche Tweeple) for the work you do and for sharing with us!

Thanksgiving & Gratitude: This One Plus 364 More

Gratitude at Thanksgiving

Hello, Everyone! This week many people are gathering to celebrate, Thanksgiving Day, and will express their gratitude for each other, their gathering and other wonderful blessings. This is a wonderful day of celebration, for sure! However, let's not forget to extend that attitude of gratitude into our daily life. We have so much to be grateful for everyday that we may actually overlook, because it's always present. Such as:

• family: mother, father, daughter(s), son(s), sister(s), brother(s), grandmothers, grandfathers, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, in-laws, 'half-' and 'step-' relatives
• friends
• affiliates, their products and services
• mentors
• associates, Blogger blog readers/visitors (you all, from all over the globe), & Twitter Tweeple
• businesses: our own and others' like Macy's, Wal-mart, TJ Maxx, JourneyEd, MotherNatures.com, Kroger & so many more
• financial income sources (win-win & win-win-win)
• financial abundance
• pets
• nature
• technology, electronics and software (and its inventors) we use regularly, if not everyday, like Blogger, Adobe, Twitter, WordPress, Skype, BlackBerry, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Internet & many more
• appliances by GE, Maytag, Philips & many more
• water (clean)
• air (fresh)
• sunshine
• sleep (restorative & soothing)
• food (nutritious & delicious)
• furniture & furnishings
• houses/homes
• generosity
• kindness
• honesty
• integrity
• great customer service/care
• talents & gifts
• music (uplifting, joyous, soothing, exciting; all the good)
• various objects of comfort and convenience
• automobiles/transportation
• safety
• leisure and blissful experiences
• health (great or improving)
• love
• our Creator, His Creation, His love, His blessings (including His son, Christ Jesus)

This list contains only a few of the blessings we can be thankful for everyday! It's my desire that you all enjoy a healthy, safe, joy-filled Thanksgiving Day along with 364 other days, each year, filled with much to be thankful for!  Enjoy the serene, blissful video and its 'Thanksgiving' music.

Thank-you for visiting with me, here and leaving your 'star' on the Revolver visitor globe. I'm forever grateful for your presence here! Take care.

Gratitude Quotes

Good day, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing some delightful "gratitude" quotes with you. By the way, I'm grateful for you! Enjoy the quotes.

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

~ Albert Schweitzer

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

~ William Arthur Ward

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! "

~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel."

~ Author Unknown

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

~ Cynthia Ozick

"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink."

~ G.K. Chesterton

"There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance."

~ Joseph Addison

"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."

~ Estonian Proverb

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."

~ Alfred Painter

"Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer."

~ Verbena Woods

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."

~ Johannes A. Gaertner

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Gratitude and The Gratitude Dance

Good Day, Everyone! Today's tool-topic is GRATITUDE. Wikipedia states, "Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive."

Gratitude is a tool because it makes us focus on that which is the best of our life, rather than the worst, and in doing so works like visualizations and affirmations. Why? Well, as we express gratitude for something, whether verbally, written down or in our thoughts, we "affirm" it and we "visualize" it, simultaneously. We attract more of what we focus on, and we attract it more efficiently when we affirm and visualize it. So, expressing gratitude is a powerful tool for attracting what we desire; gratitude works like a powerful magnet!

Below, is a delightful video that's been out since September 19, 2007. Even now, it's still beneficial to serve as a light-hearted, joyful reminder to express gratitude often. This video made me smile and I believe it will have the same impact on you! I'm going to do this dance and have a good time laughing at myself as I do!


The Gratitude Dance -Video