This is not necessarily what we had in mind when we recommend you help your neighbor out by performing an act of kindness.

• cut their lawn
• bring in their garbage cans after they have been emptied
• help them lay turf
• offer to haul away their excess yard waste if you are going to the dump anyways.
• offer to prune their trees
• offer to watch their home if they are going on vacation
• look after a pet or animal
• take them a meal or some pastry
• lend a hand on any projects

I know what you are thinking … this takes some sweat and possibly sacrificing time away from your own projects or family but many hands do make light work and when you need help it just might be your neighbor that steps up to reciprocate or return the favor.

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If you have been following Matt and his antics you know he travels the globe and video records his unique “dance” style to share with the world. Do something fun and pass on some Sun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Associated Press
PLAINVILLE, Conn. - They don’t climb tall buildings in a single bound, but the mysterious “Gas Men” are super heroes to some fed-up motorists.

The unknown duo were dressed in sunglasses, baseball caps, khakis and matching green golf shirts when they gave Gayle Kilburn a $100 bill on Thursday as she filled up her car at a Citgo in Plainville.

They also handed her a card that read “Re-Fueling Our Community” and was signed “The Gas Men.”

With fuel prices where they are today what a great sentiment or random act of kindness these Men performed.

The Kindness in Motion Team have awarded this story the prestigous 5 star rating.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Credit: Associated Press
LUDINGTON, Mich. - A woman who lost her class ring in Lake Michigan in 1954 has it back, thanks to a metal-detector hobbyist.

Robert Savage told the Ludington Daily News for a story Saturday that he found the ring about 12 years ago but only recently began looking for its owner.

He did a bit of detective work by looking at the initials and the year on the ring. He found a Ludington High yearbook for 1955 and found that Jan Pedersen was the only person in the class with the right initials.

Now Jan Zacharda, she says she had forgotten about the ring she lost at Ludington State Park. And she’s even more puzzled that Savage found it in a lake about a dozen miles away.

Zacharda now wears the ring on her index finger, where it fits better.

This is what Kindness in Motion is all about, going out of your way make someone else’s day. Kindness - Pass it On!
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Share a cab, help an elderly person with a task, adopt a co-worker to help their transition, pay for coffee, tip generously, loan your truck, help someone move, love unconditionally, praise your children, compliment at least one person everyday.

Remember to download a smile card and leave it with the recipient to encourage them to pay it forward. Turn up the heat by passing on some Sun today.

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It is great to see Hollywood get behind the Pay it Forward campaign. The Kindness in Motion Team is always looking for ways to encourage others to do just that, Pay it Forward. Consider treating a friend to this Movie, you never know what seed it will plant or the good it will do.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

To the Kindness in Motion Team this image literally means we hold the Sun in our hands and if we choose we can pass on some Sun to another person each and everyday. Make today the day you pass on some Sun to an anonymous recipient.

Pay for someone’s coffee, toll fee or lunch in a fast food drive thru. Deliver some baking or cut someone’s lawn. Remember, YOUR ripple can start a WAVE ~

Start by downloading some smile cards and performing an anonymous act of kindness, after completing your kind act leave the card which will hopefully encourage the recipient to do same.

Pass on some SUN!!!!

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· If we’re judgmental, then others will judge us.

· If we’re critical all the time, then others will criticize us.

· If we gossip about others, then others will gossip about us.

· If we’re jealous, then others will be jealous of us.

Whatever we give out, we’re going to get back. As the old saying goes, “What goes around, comes around.”

On the other hand, we can sow the positive. If we sow encouragement, affirmation, and kindness, others will give back encouragement, affirmation, and kindness. If we sow love, people are going to sow love back to us. God wired the universe that way.

And, we always get back more than we give. Always! This great excerpt was from Rick Warren at Purpose Driven Life.

Download your free kindness smile cards today! Your ripple can start a WAVE ~

ORLANDO, Fla. - Walt Disney World makes wishes come true for so many visitors every year however in this case it was not your typical wish. Disney staff worked its magic on a Massachusetts couple who accidentally threw away three platinum and diamond wedding rings.

While tidying up their villa as they prepared to leave the park late last week, Paul Campanale dumped a cardboard bowl, not knowing the container inside it held his wife Karen’s engagement, wedding and five-year-anniversary rings.

Park employees knew recovering the jewelry was all but impossible so informed the couple the chances were slim and unlikely they would see their jewelry again. So on Friday, the Campanales and their two children loaded onto a Magical Express bus and headed to the airport destined for home.

Back at the Wilderness Lodge resort, executive housekeeper Drew Weaver realized that trash from the Campanales’ villa had not yet reached the industrial-size compactor. He and seven other volunteers donned protective clothing, emptied a parking lot bin and waded through bag after bag of rubbish to find the rings. And they did.

Paul Campanale, 37, a chemist, received the good news on his cell phone and Weaver met the family to deliver the rings. Karen Campanale, 35, a teacher, said she was shocked by the find.

“That’s not the first time we’ve gone through trash — oh, no,” Weaver said. “We don’t always find things. Many times we come up empty. But we didn’t this time.”

Kindness in Motion Team

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Join us in encouraging Random Acts of Kindness by performing one today!. Get started, download and print some smile cards, perform a random act of kindness, leave the card and hopefully the recipient will pay it forward or do the same. YOUR ripple can start a WAVE !!!

Need an act of kindness idea? Check out our Kindness Ideas Page

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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” Lao Tzu

“Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta