In a season where you can be anything, be kind.
Need some inspiration? Here's a list of ideas you can use to show kindness to the people around you this holiday season:
- Write a positive review for a local business
- Leave a generous tip for a pleasant waiter
- Donate a gift to a local charity
- Write a letter to a patient in a nursing home or hospital
- Put a coin in an expired meter
- Bring a coworker coffee
- Write a letter to a teacher who changed your life
- Pick up excess trash laying out
- Help a friend wrap their Christmas gifts
- Give up your place in line at a credit union or grocery store
- Donate old clothes
- Let someone merge into the lane on the highway
- Leave something nice for the mailman/delivery driver
- Smile at someone random
- Put positivity notes in places where others will see them and be uplifted
- Write or tell your partner what you love about him or her
- Be patient, kind and gracious to a customer service worker over the phone
- Stick a quarter in a gumball machine so a child will find it
- Share a friend's business website, blog or art on social media
- Donate blood
- Bake cookies for the local fire station
- Take your neighbor’s trash to or from the street/curb
- Rake leaves for an elderly neighbor
- Buy from local businesses for Christmas