Scattering Kindness: A 31 Day Adventure (2018)
Scroll down for the Landing Page (aka Table of Contents) for 2018 #Write31Days Series.
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 different.
“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. They are not in any particular order. 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.
- Organizing Meals
- Delivering Meals
- Calling Someone
- Organizing a Sock Drive
- Baking a Birthday Cake for Someone You Don’t Know
- Helping a Teacher With Classroom Supplies
- Being a Trail Angel: Giving Away Food At Trailheads
- Calling Someone by Their Name
- Playing Nicely on Social Media
- Gifting a Banana
- Being a Good House Mate
- Writing a Letter
- Filling Operation Christmas Child Boxes
- Neighboring Well
- Leaving a Generous Tip
- Leaving a Surprise in a Library Book
- Looking Someone in the Eyes
- Paying Someone’s Way Who Can’t Pay You Back
- Sitting with Someone
- Being on Time
- Praying
- Putting Away Shopping Carts
- Going to the Funeral
- Kindness is Being a Friendly Driver
- Kindness is Trick-or-Treating
- Kindness is Feeding People
- Picking up Trash
- Donating a cell phone and used ink cartridges
- Making & Delivering Hearts
- Painting Kindness Rocks
- Kindness is Planting a Tree
- Adopting a plot at a cemetery
- Creating a Gift
- Volunteering at Neighborhood Meals
- Writing Thank You Notes
- Leaving Behind Nice Pens
- Doing a Run/Walk
- Going on a walk with someone
- Hosting a Card Making Workshop
- Donate a book to the library
- Reminisce with a Senior
- Mail a card to someone: service member, elderly person, child with cancer
- Read to a child
- Donate to St John’s Food bank
- Put toilet paper in a park bathroom
- Put compliment notes in a public restroom
- Provide dinner for a family
- Send flowers
- Hemming or Mending
- Visit Casa Coloma
- Pick up groceries for a neighbor
- Knit a caps for preemies
- Donate to Soles 4 Souls
- Give 31 Positive YELP reviews
- Provide a loan through KIVA
- Organize a game night
- Make and deliver cinnamon rolls
- Send devotional book and gift card to a single mom
- Put away shopping carts
- Become an organ donor
- Following up with someone
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.
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.