The Kindness Mission suggestions for spreading the joy of kindness!

♥ For one week, act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart, and notice what happens as a consequence
♥ Pay a compliment at least once a day
♥ Offer a couple of hours of baby-sitting to parents
♥ Sing at a nursing home
♥ Give the gift of your smile
♥ Call or visit a homebound person
♥ Carry groceries for a senior
♥ Give dinner leftovers to someone in need
♥ Rake your neighbors leaves
♥ Top up a parking meter that is about to expire
♥ Donate time at a senior center
♥ Bring cookies for your coworkers
♥ Leave enough money in the vending machine for the next person to get a free treat
♥ Deliver fresh-baked cookies to city workers
♥ Collect goods for a food bank.
♥ Volunteer to be a tutor in a school.
♥ Bring coworkers a special treat.
♥ Students can clean classrooms for the custodian.
♥ Buy a stranger a free pizza
♥ Distribute lollipops to kids.
♥ Have a charity day at work, with employees bringing nonperishable food items to donate
♥ Hand out balloons to passersby
♥ Give free sodas to motorists
♥ Be a good neighbor. Take over a baked treat or stop by to say “Hello”
♥ Transport someone who can’t drive
♥ Mow a neighbor’s grass
♥ Say something nice to everyone you meet today
♥ Send a treat to a school or day-care center.
♥ Volunteer at an agency that needs help
♥ Wipe rainwater off shopping carts or hold umbrellas for shoppers on the way to their cars.
♥ Volunteer to read in the classroom
♥ Give a hug to a friend
♥ Write a thank-you note to a mentor or someone who has influenced your life in a positive way
♥ Give coffee to people on their way to work in the morning
♥ Donate time at a senior center
♥ Give blood
♥ Drop off a plant, cookies, or donuts to the police or fire department
♥ Open the door for another person.
♥ Pay for the meal of the person behind you in the drive-through
♥ Write a note to the boss of someone who has helped you, praising the employee
♥ Leave a bouquet of flowers on the desk of a colleague at work with whom you don’t normally get along
♥ Call an estranged family member.
♥ Volunteer to fix up an elderly couple’s home.
♥ Pay for the person behind you in the movie line
♥ Give flowers to be delivered with meal delivery programs
♥ Give toys to the children at a a shelter
♥ Be a friend to a new student or coworker
♥ Renew an old friendship by sending a letter or small gift to someone you haven’t talked with in a long time
♥ Offer to return a shopping cart to the store for someone loading a car

♥ Send a letter to a former teachers, letting them know the difference they made in your life.
♥ Send a gift anonymously to a friend.
♥ Organize a clothing drive for a shelter.
♥ Buy books for a day care or school.
♥ Slip a $20 bill to a person who you know is having financial difficulty.
♥ Take an acquaintance to dinner.
♥ Offer to take a friend’s child to ball practice.
♥ Help a neighbor weed or plant a garden.
♥ Select some people in your life who you feel need a special lift and send them a gift: flowers, tickets to a special event, or a gift certificate.
♥ Stop for a person waiting to cross the street.
♥ Call or write to someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time, just to say you’re thinking about them
♥ Smile and say “hello” to someone you don’t know.
♥ When you are waiting for service at the deli counter, trade “ticket numbers” with someone in a hurry.
♥ Help someone struggling with heavy bags.
♥ Give a lottery ticket to a stranger.
♥ Shovel your neighbor’s driveway or mow the lawn.
♥ Hold the door of the elevator, subway, or bus for someone rushing to catch it.
♥ Tape coins to a pay telephone with a note saying that anyone who needs it can use it.
♥ Next time you finish your punch card for a free cup of coffee or meal, give it away or ask the cashier to give it to someone who might
need it.
♥ Visit hospitals with smiles, treats, and friendly conversation for patients.
♥ Stop by a nursing home, and visit a resident with no family nearby.
♥ Plant flowers in your neighbor’s flower box.
♥ Give another driver your parking spot.
♥ Leave a treat or handmade note of thanks for a delivery person or mail carrier.
♥ Give free car washes.
♥ Clean graffiti from neighborhood walls and buildings.
♥ Tell your boss that you think he/she does a good job.
♥ Tell your employees how much you appreciate their work.
♥ Let your staff leave work an hour early.
♥ Have a clean-up party in the park.
♥ Tell a bus or taxi driver how much you appreciate their driving.
♥ Give a pair of tickets to a baseball game or concert to a stranger.
♥ Leave an extra big tip for the waitperson.
♥ Invite someone new over for dinner.
♥ Buy a roll of brightly colored stickers and give them to children you meet during the day.
♥ Write a card of thanks and leave it with your tip. Be sure to be specific in your thanks.
♥ Let the person behind you in the grocery store go ahead of you in line.
♥ When drivers try to merge into your lane, let them in with a wave and a smile.
♥ Buy cold drinks for the people next to you at a ball game.
♥ Give groceries to a homeless person.
♥ Plant a tree in your neighborhood.
♥ As you go about your day, pick up trash