Acts of Kindness

ACTS OF KINDNESS

COMPLIMENTS

1. Email or write an old teacher who made a difference in your life.
2. Compliment someone in front of others.
3. Write your partner a list of things you love about them.
4. Say thank you to those who you appreciate.
5. Tell your siblings how much you appreciate them.

ACTIONS

1. Help out a friend who is going through a difficult time.
2. Hang out with the person who just moved to town.
3. Offer a homeless person food.
4. Each time you get a new piece of clothing, donate an old one.
5. Leave a nice server the biggest tip you can afford.
6. Smile at someone on the street, just because.
7. Talk to the shy person who's sitting by themselves at a party.
8. Become a big brother or big sister.
9. Let the person behind you at the supermarket checkout with one or two items go ahead of you.
10. Be the person who puts a tip in the tip jar at the coffeeshop.
11. When you go somewhere to get or do something, ask the people around you if you can pick up anything they need.
12. Give someone a hug.
13. Call your grandparents. 14. When you're throwing something away on the street, pick up any litter around you and put that in the trash too.
15. Volunteer to read to kids at an after-school program.
16. Try to make sure every person in a group conversation feels included.
17. Stop to talk to a homeless person.
18. Play board games with senior citizens at a nursing home. Sixty percent of them will never have a visitor during their stay.
19. Give someone a tissue who's crying in the public, and offer to talk about it, but only if they want to.
20. Listen intently.
21. Babysit for a single mom for free.
22. Adopt a rescue pet.
23. Hold the elevator.
24. Empathize.
25. Talk to someone at work whom you haven't talked to before.
26. Text someone just to say good morning or good night.
27. Help your elderly neighbor take out the trash or mow their lawn.
28. Give up your seat to someone (anyone!) on the bus or subway.
29. Keep an extra umbrella at work and let someone borrow it on their way home if there's a sudden downpour.
30. Say yes at the store when the cashier asks if you want to donate $1 to whichever cause.
31. Be encouraging!
32. Help someone struggling with heavy bags.
33. Take all your change to Coinstar and donate your collection to charity.
34. Be kind to the customer service rep on the phone. It's not their fault.
35. Be patient.
36. Make plans with that person you've been putting off seeing.
37. Call your mom.

GIFTS

1. Bring a surprise treat to a person.
2. Give someone a book you think they'd like.
3. Bring your friend coffee in the morning.
4. Make two lunches and give one away.