What does your t-shirt say about you? T-shirts logos and sayings are your message to the world. T-shirts herald many messages from sports teams, vacation locations, cartoon characters, movies (e.g. Star Wars) activities you love, restaurants (e.g.Hard Rock Cafe), designer’s logos or designer names. There are also humorous sayings, positive sayings and way too many negative shirts. Have you ever thought about what your T-shirt says about you? Well, Shawn Aswad has. She has added another category, compliments. She says she’s hoping to change the world, one compliment at a time, with her line of t-shirts.
She founded Complimentees last July on the hopes and dreams that positive words can change lives. That a positive message read, can bring a smile and make a difference in one life in that one moment. But with greater hopes that if we take that one and multiply it by thousands, all over the world, the change can be epic. As Shawn states, “We can never have enough kindness in the world, especially now in its current state. But it goes farther than kindness and is about living a positive lifestyle. If we can rid the negativity, the kindness will come! Not everyone has the courage to go up to strangers and say something positive…but everyone can wear it.”
Examples of the compliments on her t-shirts include, “You Are You Powerfully Brave,” “You Look Fantastic” and “You Are a Superhero”. My favorite is “You Make Me Smile.” The most popular is, “You Make Me Want to Dance.”
Abraham Lincoln knew the power of a compliment. Lincoln wrote in a letter to Thurlow Weed in 1865, as noted in Donald Phillips’ book, Lincoln on Leadership. The passage says, “As a lawyer in Springfield the effect of his compliments on others provided a powerful motivational force in getting things accomplished.”
Shawn believes in complimenting others whenever she can. How about you? How many compliments did you give yesterday? How many times did you rebuke someone yesterday? Did you say more positive words than negative words? It makes a difference to those around you, as well as, to yourself. If you are not good at giving compliments perhaps a Complimentee would help change that.
Complimentees help fund Shawn’s dog rescue, Snooty Giggles. Shawn founded Snooty Giggles over a decade ago to rescue dogs with special needs and/or medical needs. She has saved thousands of dogs. So, every shirt helps physically challenged dogs and perhaps brings a smile to someone that really needs it. To Shawn the dogs of Snooty Giggles have always been her inspiration and motivation for positive living; the dogs are always giving unconditional love even with their physical challenges. She believes that there is no such thing as special needs, only super powers.
Shawn is a Caring Heart winner for spreading kindness one shirt at a time, for loving dogs that others may no longer love, and most of all for making the world a better, more positive place, one t-shirt at a time. She always believes what she wears.
Why not give ten compliments today and it that is too difficult perhaps you should purchase a Complimentee at https://complimentees.com/.
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