2012 A Mitzvah A Day

January

  • Recycle your bottles and cans from New Year’s Eve and donate the money.
  • Help your neighbor or a friend take down their holiday lights.
  • Let someone go before you today, at a store or in your car.
  • Drive a child home to help another parent.
  • Recommend a business you frequent to others. In addition, you can post about it on FB, Twitter or a blog!
  • Share your expertise to help teach another person something beneficial to their livelihood.
  • Say a prayer of gratitude when you eat breakfast, lunch or dinner today.
  • Provide cheer to someone who is ill.
  • Drop by unexpectedly with flowers for a friend, neighbor or elder. It will brighten up this winter day.
  • Take your “mitzvah dog” to a retirement center or nursing home.
  • Scoop Your Poop.
  • Don’t wait to be asked, offer something you can do to help a friend in need – see post January 12th.
  • Take your neighbor’s garbage up from the curb.
  • Invite someone to join you for a meal.
  • Support a Girl Scout. Buy some cookies today.
  • Behave with patience when you must wait.
  • Gladly hold the elevator for someone running to get it.
  • Offer to watch another child or drive them to school late so the parents can work.
  • Check in with a friend whose recently lost a pet or a loved one to see how they are doing.
  • Put away someone else’s weights or mat at the gym.
  • Do you have a great recipe that everyone loves? Make copies and give it to anyone who asks for it.
  • Use a recyclable bag with you on all your errands today.
  • When you order your coffee this week and stay to drink it ask for a “for here” cup ie. not styrofoam.
  • Give a Tisbest charity gift card in honor of a friend’s birthday.
  • Donate a book to a Children’s Book Bank.
  • Donate your used eyeglasses to the Lions Clubs Eyeglass Recycling Centers.
  • Fill a thermos of hot chocolate and pass it out to unsuspecting recipients ie. anyone working outside.
  • Light a candle to signify the end of Shabbat or at sundown acknowledge the passing of another day. Say a prayer of thanks.
  • Comment today on someone’s blog to let them know their words have positively impacted you.
  • Give someone the benefit of the doubt.
  • Stop to give directions to a stranger today.  

February       Happy Random Acts of Kindness Week – February 13-19, 2012

  • Pick up some trash while you are out and about today.
  • Send a funny card to a friend undergoing chemotherapy.
  • Donate to your local Humane Society to end petlessness.
  • Visit a friend who’s going through a rough time and needs some cheering up!
  • Give someone a sincere compliment today.
  • Help make someone’s job easier!
  • If you have skills to help someone get a job like resume writing or appropriate connections offer them.
  • Plant a tree.
  • Help someone get to their car safely.
  • If you have a ticket to a game, lecture or event that you can’t use, gift it to someone who can use it.
  • Unplug from electronics and spend uninterrupted time with someone.
  • Donate your used magazines to a doctor’s office or hospital waiting room.
  • Treat a friend or stranger to coffee today publicly or anonymously!
  • Bring chicken soup to someone who is sick.
  • Help a friend do a mitzvah.
  • Know a kid at college? Send ‘em a care package!
  • If you are a listener, why not become a member? Support your local public broadcasting station.
  • Return a lost item.
  • Volunteer at a community fundraiser.
  • Donate a dollar today to a charity.
  • If you are a listener, why not become a member? Support your local public broadcasting station this week.
  • When a friend shares a grievance they have with you. Listen, try not to be defensive and understand that they share this with you because they want to connect more deeply.

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