While every day presents opportunities to be kind, take a moment or two today to make someone else’s day with a little random act of kindness. Stuck for some ideas? Here are a few to get you started:
- Smile at a stranger
- Send an anonymous gift
- Bring treats to work
- Send a friend or family member a homemade card
- Leave positive comments on a blog or post
- Compliment a friend
- Compliment a stranger
- Brush the snow off someone’s car or clean their windshield
- Leave a positive message with management about a waiter or cashier or other hardworking employee of a business you frequent
- Help your neighbor shovel snow (or mow the lawn, depending on where you live!)
- Leave sticky notes with positive messages on restroom mirrors
- Pay for the coffee/toll/snack of the person behind you
- Pick up an extra bag of dog or cat food and drop it off at a shelter
- Offer to return someone’s shopping car for them while they’re loading their car
- Say “Thank You” to someone making a difference
There are countless ways to make someone’s day a little brighter. What random act of kindness will you do?