40 Simple Acts of Kindness You Can Do Today

Here are a few ways we can get started in spreading a little kindness in the world.

1. Take someone to dinner
2. Write a thank you note
3. Bring someone you work with a coffee
4. Buy flowers for someone
5. Visit a stranger at the hospital
6. Donate. Clothes, shoes, toys. If you're not using it, give it away.
7. Write a note of appreciation to your mailman
8. Give compliments
9. Fix something for someone
10. Rekindle an old friendship
11. Give a lottery ticket to a stranger
12. Pay for someone in the drive through line
13. Show your boss you appreciate them
14. Feed the birds
15. Cut coupons out and leave them at the grocer register for others
16. Cut an article out of the newspaper that would interest a friend and mail it to them.
17. Give a hug or two or thirty.
18. Visit a nursing home
19. Tell a blogger you like their work
20. Send a card to someone in the military overseas
21. Start a conversation with a stranger
22. Leave change in a vending machines
23. Call someone to tell them you care
24. Give books to the library
25. Give a toy or game to a hospital
26. Donate a coat
27. Give flowers to someone you don't know
28. Make dinner for someone
29. Volunteer
30. Babysit for someone
31. Bake something and give it away
32. Pick up trash
33. Read to children at the library or a local school
34. Leave a book or magazines somewhere for other's to read
35. Help at a soup kitchen
36. Make baggies for the homeless (soap, tooth paste, etc.)
37. Walk a dog at the dog shelter or play with the kitties
38. Help a teacher
39. Do something nice for your parents
40. Pay it forward

These are just a few ways that you can show kindness.  I hope you will join us in making the commitment of showing kindness to those around you. If you're looking for more advice check out 9 pieces of advice I wish someone would have told me!