Acts of Random Kindness to celebrate the season right
I challenge y’all to pick a different A.R.K. each day this month until Christmas to celebrate the season and show a little extra kindness to the strangers around us, and to brighten your day. Below are just some ideas, feel free to comment with more ideas and comment as with your experiences in completing intentional A.R.K.’s throughout the month!
Opening a door for someone else
Give a hug
Notes of encouragement on someone’s windshield
Buy a coffee for someone
Give a stranger a compliment
Buy a food gift card and give it to a homeless person
Give a blanket or jacket you no longer use to a homeless person
Play Frisbee with a stranger
Start a pillow fight with a stranger
Pay for the person behind you in a drive through line
Give someone a neck/shoulder massage
Take soup or something of need to someone sick
Take breakfast to your boss one morning
Buy lunch for a co-worker, then eat with them and have intentional conversation
Give 10 people high fives
Make cookies or something for the local police or fire department
Write sticky notes of encouragement; leave them around everywhere you go today
Tape money to a vending machine for someone to enjoy a treat or energy boost
Collect stuffed animals and take them to a children’s hospital
Buy flowers for a widow
Put gas in someone’s car
Make someone laugh
Smile at 10 strangers
Thank 5 people today
Visit someone who is lonely
Cook a meal for someone
Bring a treat to your co-workers
Help someone load or unload their groceries
Share a positive blog post
Help someone change a tire
Send 5 thank you notes to soldiers
Give water to a bus driver or the mailman
Let someone go in front of you in line
Workout with a friend
Walk someone’s dog for them
Forward an email coupon
