Scattering Kindness: A 31 Day Adventure

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Do you ever do special projects for your birthday? I.e. Folks will collect money for a charity or accomplish 30 things by the time they are 30.

I like to do things involving my birthday years.

• I read 58 books when I was 58.
• I watched 59 musicals when I was 59.
• This year I want to do 60 Intentional and/or Random Acts of Kindness (RAK’s).

I think it is important to do acts of kindness, intentional and random. These acts cheer up others and sometimes provide some much-needed help. It helps our world to be a nicer place. It helps me to be a nicer person.

RAK’s and I have history. These are meaningful actions that make individual and global differences.

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams

I have written several blog posts about them, already.

• 10 Acts of Kindness Ideas
• 20 Acts of Kindness Ideas to Celebrate 200th Post
• Grateful 4 Three – Kind Actions From Others

This year for #Write31Days, I am doing my series on acts of kindness, intentional and random. The title is Scattering Kindness: a 31 Day Adventure.

Doing 31 acts of kindness for this series will help me get half of my birthday list done. And hopefully, I will discover that this time of focused energy will make me and my world differently.

“Your one random act of kindness may not change the world but it might make a difference in the life of someone today” ~ Maria Koszler

Below is a brainstormed list of kind acts of service.  What should I add to this list? I want to do 60 by the end of March 2019. As I complete and write about an intentional or random act of service, the link will go live.

NOTE: I did not finish the series in March 2018. I completed 23 actions/posts. I will finish 8 of the original ideas and then do 14 more additional actions/posts this Lenten season for 2020. I hope to have all the rest (60 in total) of the actions/posts done by the end of May 2020. 

1. Adding Beauty 
2. Adopting a plot at a cemetery
3. Baking a Birthday Cake for Someone You Don’t Know
4. Becoming an Organ Donor
5. Being a Friendly Driver
6. Being a Good Housemate
7. Being a Trail Angel: Giving Away Food At Trailheads
8. Being on Time
9. Calling Someone by Their Name 
10. Creating a Gift
11. Delivering Meals
12. Doing a Run/Walk
13. Donating a Book to the Library
14. Donating a cell phone and used ink cartridges
15. Donating to a Foodbank
16. Donating to Soles 4 Souls
17. Feeding People
18. Filling Operation Christmas Child Boxes
19. Following up
20. Gifting a Banana
21. Giving 31 Positive YELP reviews
22. Going On a Walk
23. Going to the Funeral
24. Helping a Teacher With Classroom Supplies
25. Hemming or Mending
26. Hosting a Card Making Workshop
27. Knitting caps for preemies
28. Organizing a Sock Drive
29. Organizing Meals
30. Leaving a Generous Tip
31. Leaving a Surprise in a Library Book
32. Leaving Behind Nice Pens
33. Looking Someone in the Eyes
34. Mailing a card (service member, elderly person, a child with cancer)
35. Making a Phone Call
36. Make and deliver cinnamon rolls
37. Neighboring Well
38. Organizing a Card Exchange
39. Painting Kindness Rocks
40. Paying Someone’s Way Who Can’t Pay You Back
41. Picking up groceries for a neighbor
42. Picking up Trash
43. Planting a Tree
44. Playing Nicely on Social Media
45. Praying
46. Providing a loan through KIVA
47. Providing dinner for a family
48. Putting Away Shopping Carts
49. Putting compliment notes in a public restroom
50. Putting toilet paper in a park bathroom
51. Reading to a child
52. Recording a Book 
53. Reminiscing with a Senior
54. Sending a devotional book to a single mom
55. Sending flowers
56. Sitting with Someone
57. Taking Time to Notice
58. Trick-or-Treating
59. Using Your Manners
60. Visiting a Nursing Home
61. Volunteering at Neighborhood Meal
62. Writing a Thank You Note
63. Writing a Letter

Your Turn . . . What would you add to this list? . . .  What was the last act of kindness, intentional or random, you did? . . . Do you do anything unique to celebrate your birthday? . . . Will you join me in this adventure?

This post is part of #Write31Days where bloggers write every day in October on one topic. I am writing about Acts of Kindness, random and otherwise. By November, it will be interesting to see if I am different and/or my community is different. To see what other bloggers are doing, go here.

You can practice being kind by leaving me a comment.

Related Posts . . . These are important backbone posts on kindness.

• 8 Characteristics of Kindness 
• Kindness is Valuable, Influential, & Contagious 

Previous #Write31Days Topics

• MORE vs less: 31 Days of Decluttering 2017
• Finding Laughter: 31 Days of Writing 2015 – Landing Page
• 31 Days of Finishing 2014: Table of Contents & What it is About

Thanks go to Elizabeth Symington for making my #Write31Days button and basic graphic for the kindness quotes. Elizabeth is writing a 31 days series on Summer of Service in Yosemite.