Kindness is Contagious

Kindness is contagious. Here are over 25 ways that you can evoke kindness into your daily lives. Try to do at least one a day, notice how great you feel.

  • Send someone a hand written note of thanks.
  • Make a card at home and send it to a friend for no reason.
  • Buy a lottery ticket for a stranger.
  • Put some coins in someone else’s parking meter.
  • Buy a coffee for the man on the high street selling The Big Issue magazine.
  • Cut your neighbour’s hedge.
  • Walk your friend’s dog.
  • Give a compliment about your waiter / waitress to his / her manager.
  • Send someone a small gift anonymously.
  • Stop and help someone replace their flat tyre.
  • Let someone jump the queue at the bank.
  • Pay for the drinks on the next table at a café.
  • Treat a friend to the movies for no reason.
  • Give a huge tip to someone when they least expect it.
  • Hold the train door open for someone rushing to get in.
  • Give up your seat for someone, not just an elderly person.
  • Write notes of appreciation at least once a week.
  • Talk to a homeless person and have a “normal” conversation.
  • Pick up some rubbish in the road which would otherwise be lying around.
  • Compliment a work colleague for their excellence.
  • Recommend a competitor to a potential client.
  • Give another driver your parking spot.
  • Give a piece of fruit to a delivery person.
  • Help an elderly neighbour carry the rubbish out.
  • Tell all your family members how much your appreciate them.
  • Leave a copy of an interesting book on a train / bus.
  • Buy an inspirational book for a friend.
  • Send a thank you note to a person who has helped you in the past.
  • Smile a lot.

Positive Action

This Blog is my way of reminding all of us – no matter what we face, there is someone who has had a similar experience or someone who is willing to listen. We just need to take that first step, just one step at a time, one day at a time, one small achievement at a time.

Over the last several years, my immediate family has seen their struggles with illness. We lost our father to Multiple Myeloma (blood cancer), a brother to complications from epilepsy, a brother to stage IV Brain Cancer, our mother though she lived to be 90 yrs old, suffered from Dementia the last 7 years of her life and in the end didn’t recognize any of the family. Oh and lets not forget that 3 out of the 4 sisters in my family who have been diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

Sadness can be a potent force for reflection. As a wise person once said, “feel it and it will go away, ignore it and it will resurface another day”.

Acts of Kindness

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Committing a random act of kindness is a demonstration of the generosity of your spirit. Kindness is an expression of love. It is an abundance concept. It is the thinking that you are full of love for your fellow human kind that you’ve got more to give, even to strangers or people that you don’t really know.

“Some measure their lives by days and years,

Others by heart throbs, passion and tears;

But the surest measure under the sun,

Is what in your lifetime for others you have done.”

– Ruth Smeltzer

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Holiday Visits – Coming Home

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This is for those who stayed.

During this holiday season, I thought I would share this article which was found within CNN’s interent site.  CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose books include “Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen” and “And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.” Continue reading “Holiday Visits – Coming Home”