Helping People We Know

Leave a chocolate for an unsuspecting co-worker or family. Give a friend your favorite inspirational book with a personal note attached. Connect two friends who had not previously met each other. Share a motivational story from today's news.
Slip a handwritten joke for someone on her/his desk. Make a creative greeting card using colored pencils/pens for someone you care. Print out a song and give it to someone you love.

Helping Unknown

Hide spare change where a stranger will find it within the hour. Tell a public service employee how valuable they are. Play the role of doorman for 15 minutes. Strike up a conversation with someone who looks like they need a friend. Buy bottles of water and hand them to passers-bys with a smile. Acknowledge an act of kindness by someone else and thank them. Donate your favorite book to a young person with a note inside on why you love it! Strike up a conversation with an elderly person.

Helping Our World

Clean up litter on your colony/street. Send a thank you note to a person or business helping the world. Call an animal shelter and donate at least one item they need. Plant a tree where it will thrive.
Feed homeless dogs, keep water bowl for birds.

Helping Our self!

Play sports with people you don't know in the park. Smile! Say hello to 5 strangers. Offer inspiring reading to someone in the room. Photocopy this article and paste it where people could read. Leave flowers on the doorstep of someone you don't know and run! Use physical comedy or your wit to be funny and laugh with the group. Pay for an unknown person's meal anonymously. Give away something important to you. Hand out balloons to kids while skipping around in public! Close your eyes and practice absolute silence for 15 minutes.

Abridged from: www.helpothers.org