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21 No-Brainer Ways To Enthusiastically Make Someone's Day With Random Acts Of Kindness

One random act of kindness can make someone's day.

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21 No-Brainer Ways To Enthusiastically Make Someone's Day With Random Acts Of Kindness
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By: Safa Ghaya, Oneeka Kohli, Meghana Vadranam

Kindness is an act that does not take a lot out of us. Helping people, is all that many people live for no matter what. Because of kindness being such an enormous part of the community we live in, we came up with multiple effortless and easy community and neighborly acts of kindness.

1. Sitting next to someone who doesn’t have food? Share yours!

2. Compliment someone!

3. Open the doors for someone else or thank the person holding the door for you!

4. Not in a rush? Let someone go in front of you!

5. Pick up trash when no one else will.

6. Donate old clothes and toys.

7. Write a thank you note.

8. Tell someone how much you appreciate them.

9. Pay for someone's order at a drive thru.

10. Help make dinner.

11. Make a small sacrifice to make someone else happy.

12. Smile at a stranger.

13. Make a friend a playlist

14. Help a sibling with school work

15. Treat yourself to something nice.

16. Do some chores around the house

17. Motivate someone to do something they think they cannot .

18. Make little gift baskets for your friends, teachers, or neighbors

19. Donate to a charity or a non profit. Look at ones near you; it does not have to be with money.

20. Just listen to someone when they need to rant or just blow off steam

21. Plant a tree!

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