When’s the last time that you passed along a few random acts of kindness? In this post, you’ll get some amazing and simple ideas on how you can pay it forward to those around you!
Everyone is so busy these days, running from one thing to the next, and always looking at their phones. What would happen if you stopped, for just a moment, to look up and notice the world around you? Then, use that moment to do something that will make someone’s day better. Or, make the world a better place.
If you did, you’d probably find that not only were you making someone else’s day better, but you were making your day better as well.
If you’re looking for simple ways you can improve your life and the world around you, these random acts of kindness will give you some ideas. Some are small and some are a little bigger, but all will make the world you live in a better place.
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105 Random Acts of Kindness
- Hold the door for someone.
- Help your neighbor with a chore – take their trash to the curb or help them pull weeds.
- Learn something new about one of your coworkers.
- Shop local.
- Write supportive and inspirational notes on a Post-it and leave them for loved ones.
- Write notes as in #5, but leave them for strangers – in an egg carton at the grocery store, the bathroom mirror in a coffee shop, on the gas pump.
- When going through a toll, pay the toll for the person behind you as well.
- Plant a garden.
- Write down someone’s best qualities and give it to them.
- Reminisce on happy memories with an older family member.
- Read to people in nursing homes.
- Draw pictures or write cards for nursing home residents.
- If you use a laundromat, leave extra quarters or detergent behind.
- Send an email of encouragement to a friend who is struggling.
- Better yet, send a card in the mail.
- Compliment a stranger.
- Compliment a friend.
- Foster an animal waiting for their fur-ever home.
- If you’re an Amazon shopper, switch to Amazon Smile and select your favorite charity, including local ones. Amazon will donate a portion of some of your purchase price to your charity.
- Send cards to sick kids through Cards for Hospitalized Kids or Cardz for Kidz.
- Write a positive comment on a blog or social media post.
- Donate used towels and blankets to animal shelters.
- Pick up trash you see on the sidewalk and throw it away.
- Text a “good morning” or “good night” to a friend.
- Start a piggy bank for a cause. Drop all your loose change at the end of the day into it and when it’s full, donate it to your favorite charity.
- Save the wands from your used mascara tubes. Clean them and send them to Appalachian Wildlife Refuge to help them care for rescued wildlife.
- Take two minutes out of your day to click on links with The Greater Good. With each click, you donate much-needed help to a variety of organizations like animal rescue, hunger, and veterans. (Note – there is no cost to you. Advertisers pay each time you click.)
- Donate blood at a local blood drive.
- Call your local food bank and ask what they need then start a program in your neighborhood or church to gather food.
- Volunteer your time, even just an hour a week, with a local charity.
- Volunteer to be a room parent in your child’s classroom.
- Place a birdfeeder in your yard and fill it daily, especially during the cold months.
- Bring your reusable grocery bags to the store with you.
- Pay bills online.
- Leave a generous tip for a restaurant server who provided exceptional service.
- Welcome a new neighbor with a small gift basket or tray of cookies.
- Pass a good book on to a friend.
- Bring a souvenir home from your trip to a friend.
- Be polite and courteous on the road.
- Use reusable water bottles or drink from a glass.
- Leave a positive recommendation on LinkedIn for someone.
- Befriend the new kid at school or the new coworker in your office.
- Share your favorite recipe.
- Tutor someone who could use a little extra help.
- Hold a teddy bear drive then donate all the bears to a children’s hospital, police station, or fire station.
- Wipe down the gym equipment after you use it for the next person.
- Give a friend a gift for no reason.
- Cook a meal for someone.
- Share your favorite Bible verse.
- Support local culture by visiting the museums and other attractions in your area.
- Leave a kind note inside your library book before you return it.
- Reduce traffic by using public transportation whenever possible.
- Send a care package to someone far from home.
- Compliment a parent on their child’s behavior.
- Remember to say “please” and “thank you.”
- Meet your mail carrier at the mailbox on a hot day with a cold bottle of water.
- Run or walk in a 5K for a cause you support.
- Write a thank you note to someone different every week for a year. Your best friend, your mom, even your local barista.
- Adopt a pet instead of shopping a breeder.
- Bake a cake for someone.
- Ask a senior to share their memories with you.
- Donate used books to a library.
- Be kind to yourself by starting an exercise routine.
- You can also be kind to yourself by having a “no judgment” day.
- Uses matches instead of lighters.
- Personalize your own gift wrap for the gifts you give. Add a personal touch.
- Help out around the house with chores or preparing meals.
- Buy lemonade from the kids on the corner who set up a stand.
- Use energy efficient light bulbs.
- Organize a cleanup party for clean up a local park.
- Volunteer to read for story time at your local library.
- Plan a surprise birthday party for someone.
- Wash someone’s car for them.
- Make breakfast in bed for a family member.
- Pay for someone’s dry cleaning or groceries.
- Make up a Best Friend Appreciation Day and show your BFF some love.
- Take time to really listen to someone instead of being impatient for them to finish.
- Offer a friend a ride home.
- Send coloring books to sick kids in the hospital.
- Leave a stack of pennies on a wishing fountain.
- Hide dollar bills in random places for strangers to find.
- Call an old friend you haven’t talked to in a while.
- Send care packages or cards to soldiers overseas.
- Pay for someone else’s coffee.
- Shovel a neighbor’s driveway when it snows.
- Help an elderly person with their groceries.
- If you’re going out to pick something up, ask if anyone else needs anything.
- Pay a stranger’s library fees.
- Become a foster parent.
- Leave kindness notes on someone’s windshield.
- Put coins in an expired parking meter to help someone avoid a ticket.
- Volunteer to serve food at a homeless shelter.
- Leave a dollar bill at a vending machine.
- Bring donuts or bake a cake for your office.
- Perform a concert at a retirement home.
- Take time on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to remember a friend who has lost a parent in the previous year.
- Make a small holiday basket for the kids in your neighborhood. Easter, Halloween, and Christmas are all good opportunities. You can fill them with small items you find at your local Dollar Store.
- Make a comfort box for someone who is grieving. Fill it with some self-care items like a box of tea, cookies, a comforting book, a scented candle, and a package of tissues.
- Donate flower arrangements from your wedding, shower, or birthday event to a hospital or nursing home. Keep an extra umbrella in your office or car to lend to someone.
- When you hear someone gossiping about someone you know, chime in with a nice compliment about them.
- Clean out your closets and donate extra clothes to local homeless shelters or charities that help people find jobs.
- Support the work efforts of someone in a third world country by sending a donation through Kiva.
- Volunteer with The American Cancer Society to give rides to chemo patients.
- Encourage your kids to give back every day with a random act of kindness of their own.
See how simple random acts of kindness can be? They can big, they can be little or they can be somewhere in-between. As long as they are coming from the heart, you know that your efforts are being put out and received by others to make the world a better place!
