I truly believe that we can all make the world a better place. We can all practice compassion and love. And with this, I don’t only mean for someone else. It has to start with yourself. From my past, I know that it is not always easy to be kind to yourself. We so often focused on the wrong things and measure ourselves and our self-worth by ridiculously high and unrealistic standards. It is a long way to love yourself and accept yourself just the way you are.
What has helped me over the course of the years, was showing compassion and kindness to the people around me. It sounds selfish, but making someone else happy and being there for someone else makes me happy, too. It lifts my spirits and spreads joy – when my environment is happy, it is much more likely that I am happy, too. I believe in actions speaking louder than words, but I also think that words have the power to change the world. It does not have to be the whole wide world, if we all started with our small world and the people in it and tried to make this place a better one, we would come a long way.
I know that thinking of acts of kindness is sometimes overwhelming and the internet is full of ideas. For me, some of the ideas are “too big” and they take too long. As mentioned in my post about setting goals, I like to make them as small as possible. The same goes for my little acts of kindness – I want them to be doable and make sure I can perform them, so they cannot be acts like “I want to do one good deed per day for a year”. That is why I thought of 8 acts of kindness we all could do in the next 30 days. I divided them into four categories.
You can find a list of all 8 acts of kindness here.
Acts of kindness to yourself
- Put your phone to flight mode and read for one hour about something you always wanted to know (more) about.
- List 5 things you are succeeding at.
Acts of kindness to the environment
- Take a walk and really take in your environment. Afterwards, list two things that made you happy during the walk.
- Pick up 5 pieces of trash and put them into the bin.
Acts of kindness to your neighbours/colleagues
- Make one person a compliment.
- Ask one person how she is doing and really listen.
Acts of kindness for your family/friends
- Cook for your friend(s) / partner.
- Send one person a message and tell her/him why you enjoy their company.
I believe that we can all perform these little acts of kindness in the course of the next 30 days and start making our world a better place – one step at a time. You can find a list of all 8 acts of kindness at the bottom of the post, so you can print it and take it with you. If you want, you can share your experience with the #confettiofkindness. That would make me very happy 🙂
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