Ocean of Gratitude Cruise 2009

March 14-22 the 3rd Ocean of Gratitude adventure:

March 22nd I returned to Montana from my 3rd Gratitude cruise experience reflecting on the ways each cruise was unique and special yet I've come to realize on this flight home they share what I feel are 5 Gratitude traits:

1. Gratitude people focus on solutions rather than the problem. Instead of worrying about "stuff" and let's face it we all experience our share of "stuff" on the path; Gratitude people focus their energy on the good in everyone and everything in Life's situations.

2. Gratitude people are empowered by Love. Yes, Love rules! We accept that we each have a story, share similar experiences; pain, heartache, and fears est.; the difference being in Gratitude makes is being open to life. Our living from the heart tends to connect us each to the natural rhythm and flow of life; trusting in the larger wholeness of universal law.

3. Gratitude people make it a point to seek a healthy support system by attracting and surrounding themselves with positive, uplifting people.

4. Gratitude people make a conscious choice daily to live their passion with joy and gusto. They incorporate an attitude of gratitude into everything they do.

5. Gratitude people nourish their well-being by taking the necessary steps to achieve and maintain a healthy Mind, Body & Soul; with daily exercise, drinking good water, making wise food choices, getting needed rest, and last but not least embracing an attitude of Love & Gratitude!
So there you have it in a "Nut Shell." This is what you get when you put a room full of Ocean of Gratitude people together! All this entwined with quite a few AHA moments, lots of song and laughter with oodles of JOY makes for an awesome 8-day adventure at sea. A highlight for me the Soul Art Collage workshops I facilitated where each participant created their Life visual aid that helps them focus positive intentions in all areas of being to manifest their dreams and goals.
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Book Review

Title: A Christmas To Remember
Author: Eveline Maria Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com

"A Christmas To Remember" is a book that fills your heart. It isn't so much a book around the Christmas Season, as it is about a wonderful gift given to a family that the town had never met.

When I began reading the book, I wasn't sure just what it was going to be. Very quickly, I was drawn into this small town, its inhabitants and the struggling family alone and discouraged in a large city. Eveline does a great job of laying the groundwork for this transformation and hope that is given by the whole town.
With the world in a time of struggle, hardship, and some hopelessness, it does us all good to be drawn into this story. It shows what America still is. A country that can care, can bounce back, and move on.

Thanks you Eveline for writing this wonderful story. I will look forward to more of your writing. Sharon Emmett - Napa, CA
Hardcover http://www.lulu.com/content/2995604
Paperback http://www.lulu.com/content/3190395