You are invited to carry out a random act of kindnes and share how you have helped others, how it made you feel, and how others help you.
 
A random act of kindness is helping another person, or any group of people other than yourself.

Examples are endless, including:
 
• Visiting a neighbour who you have lived near for so long, and never met
• Buying a sandwich for a homeless person, or simply stopping and asking how they are
• Giving total and undivided attention to anther human being
• Letting a car turn out of a junction, or out of their home
• Recording your partner’s favourite songs onto tape
• Starting a happy book at home, recording all the good things that happen to you and your family – your achievements as well as your plans
• Send only lovely, positive and inspiring e-mails for one day!
• Men – lending the TV remote control to your partner for one day
• Working in a charity shop, or on a charity project, for one day
• Cutting the grass for an elderly neighbour
• Asking if someone you know is ok – and really listening to their answer
• Mentally forgive someone from your past – cover yourself in purple, welcome them in to your mind, acknowledge them, say to yourself “I choose peace over this” and let them go
• Give your child, or a young person, total time and attention for just one hour (at a time of their choosing!)
• Clear litter from your street
• Donate “stuff” to your local charity shop
• Let someone go first, if they look in more need than you, onto a train, in a queue or whatever
• Give total and absolute, unconditional love, to your pet – hold them and speak with them while looking into their eyes
• Read a book to someone who is blind, or to your children
• Listen to your teenager’s music and accept that it sounds great to them – and learn the name of the band – you will be cool, they will appreciate it (but won’t way so!)
• Make the tea, empty the dishwasher, do something round the home you would not normally do
• Be with your partner – really be, come home to each other, and talk about all of the joys and happiness you have together – simply let go, with each other
• Only say nice things about your work colleagues, behind their backs
• Recycle
• Take your magazines to your local doctors, dentists or vets
• Tell someone they are amazing, that they have a potential deep inside them that is astounding
• Write a poem for someone you love, or a friend
• Visit a special place with a special person
• Visit a friend in hospital – this time with no eyes on the clock, while you are there say hi to people who don’t get many visitors
• Say “hello” to other people on the train or tube. Make a comment about the weather, start a conversation!
• Say “hello” to people you pass in the corridor at work, or if you are out for a walk or a run
• Send a “Happy Just One Day” message to your friends and say how much you appreciate them
• Stay late the night before to clear your workload and then next day ask out loud: “Does anyone need any help with anything?”
• Clear out toys and books at home and bring them to work for other people to browse through and take away
• Do something to make the office special where there is irritation – clean the kitchen, empty the bins, straighten the pictures, wipe the desks
• Ring or visit relatives you don’t often speak too and make them feel special
• Help someone who is struggling with luggage, shopping bags
• Spend time with a friend to help them – with spring cleaning, shopping cooking together, cleaning the car – it’s more fun for both of you
• Fix the date for seeing someone you keep saying you will see
• Support a fund raising event for a charity which has nothing to do with you – eg local school fete – where you don’t know any children
• Have some friends round for a soup lunch and donate the cost of a pub lunch to charity
• Get to know and like a friends special pet that you find difficult
• For one day – don’t leave it to someone else – reporting litter problems, spills in the supermarket, change the toilet roll, refill things yourself
• Just for once, treat business colleagues as if you really are all on the same team!
• Offer your skills to your local school or community centre rather than selling them to customers
• Buy a small bunch of flowers and give it to the first person you meet in the street that looks a little down

Share how you have helped others, how it made you feel, and how others help you.