Every month, Eden encourages you to surprise someone in your life with a random act of kindness. This can be a wonderful addition to your monthly routine, for an endless number of reasons.
Your act of kindness can be anonymous, like paying for a stranger's coffee, or renewing someone's parking. Or, it can be showing appreciation for someone you know. A small gift, a hand-written note, an email, a phone call - whatever it is, be specific and be honest. And, like all rituals, schedule it in.
Here are some random act of kindness ideas for 2023:
- Bake something for someone you work with
- Offer to babysit one evening for free for a parent you know
- Write a hand-written letter to a friend
- Send someone flowers
- Take out and bring in your neighbour's bins
- Skip your take-away coffee for a few days, and tip a server what you've saved
- Leave a positive review online for a business that you love
- Ask to speak to the manager of a store, and let them know about the wonderful customer service you received from a staff member
- Leave a note on the desk of someone you work with letting them know about something they did that improved your week
- If your partner or housemate has had a big week, cook them their favourite meal and wash up the dishes
- Remember the coffee order of a co-worker, and surprise them with a coffee in the morning
- Take a small gift (baked goods, pot plant etc) around to anyone new who moves onto your street/ into your building
- Donate blood
- Leave a generous tip
- Take a rubbish bag with you on your next walk and pick up litter
- Leave a kind note in a library book
- Order food delivery to a sick friend's house
- Offer to help someone move house
- Send a heartfelt message to a local artist whose work you love
- Take something yum to work and leave it in the break-room
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Call your grandparents, or an elderly person in your life
This list will be updated with new ideas each year.
Happy Kindness-ing 💚
