Simple ways to be kind
Ideas and simple ways to be kind
Being kind doesn’t need to look or be extravagant. Sometimes the simplest things make the most difference. Look for ways to bring a little kindness to someone else as you go about your day. You can change their day and yours for the better!
- Smile when you walk by others
- Write positive messages on post-it notes and leave them for people to find
- Call a relative you haven’t spoken to in a while
- Tidy up around your house
- Pick up rubbish you see on the ground outside and throw it in a bin
- Hold the door open for someone
- Compliment someone
- Send a positive or encouraging text to five people in your contacts
- Surprise someone with flowers
- Tell a family member or friend you love them
- Write a note on the receipt at a restaurant for your server
- Offer to help with someone’s errands
- Give a surprise gift to someone you care about
- Send a kind card or note to a friend
- Surprise co-workers with home-baked cookies or treats
- Plant a tree
- Spend less time on your phone and more time with people you care about
- Organise a workplace giving campaign
- Offer a classmate help with homework
- Talk to someone new
- Remind yourself of things you are grateful for each day
- Volunteer
- Give someone a hug
Get creative and make your own list of kind things to do.
Join the fun of a
Cup of Kindness
Take a cup of something to a neighbour or friend. It might be a cup of flowers, or seeds, or notes filled with kind words.
The choices are endless and yours. You can even ask for your cup back if you need it :)
Share a message about your kindness cup gift on facebook and our kindness cups will be overflowing!
Embrace your life journey and write your own story
We are all unique. We are all human and we are all flawed.
Our mistakes are lessons for us and the challenges in our life are part of our own unique story.
There are many things about our lives that we cannot control.
Accepting those things as they are and remembering that everything changes and passes will help.
Accepting yourself as you are, knowing that you are capable of change will help.
Take notice of the things you say about yourself. Are they kind?
Can you share a different story about yourself with the world?
Start Small
Write kind simple notes to yourself and leave them places where you will find them.
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