Valentine’s Day is coming up. This year, I choose to celebrate kindness. I was partially inspired by One Million Acts of Kindness, a blog by Bob (and his dog Bogart – don’t want to forget our animal friends!) that poses each person can have a goal of doing one million acts of kindness over their lifetime. This is a lofty goal, to be sure, but a great one nonetheless. To this end, I have come up with little things you or I can do to get started:
- Hold the door for someone whose hands are full.
- Offer some leftovers to the neighbors.
- Tell a friend how great they look in that outfit or haircut.
- Send a “thinking of you” card or postcard to someone you haven’t seen in a while.
- Leave cards anywhere with little quotes or phrases on them, like “You’re an amazing person!” or “Enjoy the day!”
- Make dinner and do the dishes for you’re spouse/significant other – just because.
- Call your Mom, Dad or child and ask how it’s going.
- Silently bless everyone you meet today – not just when they sneeze.
As you can see, most of these don’t cost a lot of money, just your time and attention. Why not try one today, and another tomorrow? Do you have some interesting or funny stories about how someone was kind to you, or what you did for someone else? Please post it here and inspire the rest of us!
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