Welcome to today’s one minute motivator. You’ve heard it said that the best way to be loved is to love? Well today we’re going to apply this principle to kindness. If the best way to experience kindness is to be kind, that’s exactly what you’re going to do today.
The astute amongst you will notice that this is actually a revision of a post I published back in January. The reason being, I read a lovely post about Acts of Random Kindness today and it reminded me of this post. If you’ve got more than a minute, you can read the post that inspired this revision here.
In the meantime, be on the lookout today for someone you can be kind to. It might be something as simple as holding the door open for a stranger coming through behind you. What if you pass an older neighbour struggling to get shopping into their car? Offer to lend a hand. When you go and get yourself a refreshment in work, ask your colleague if they’re thirsty too.
There are so many different ways you can be kind to another person today so use your imagination and remember to come back and tell us what you did.
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January 27, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Ah you can’t beat random acts of kindness. They make you feel good and more importantly they make the world a better place.
Can you imagine Eleanor if every person in the world did a random act of kindness today? How awesome would that be?
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January 27, 2010 at 1:20 pm
That would be very awesome Ben. It’s what Give A Brick is really about, loving people just because you can.
If you have a few spare moments later, you might like the full version of this one minute post: http://www.giveabrick.com/act-of-random-kindness/ It’s not a drop down option on comment luv anymore which is a shame because it’s the one post that reminds me why I’m doing this.
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April 13, 2010 at 6:27 am
Hey Eleanor. Thanks for the buzz!
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April 13, 2010 at 8:33 pm
If only everyone did just one thing, the world would be a much better place. Thanks for the reminder of this!
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