Entrepreneurs are naturally giving. These random acts of kindness ideas shared by your peers will help you spread positivity and strengthen bonds with friends and family who welcome your time and generosity. Touch their lives with spontaneity and show them you care.
Brighten someone’s day with these random acts of kindness. Your family and friends know how hard you work, how dedicated you are to them and to your personal cause, and they will enjoy you making their day extra special.
These random acts of kindness are unexpected. They’re absolutely appreciated. ‘And they just might be the nicest thing to happen to this person in a long time!
As you run from task to task and work priority to priority – prioritize them – your friend or family member or neighbor and let someone know you care. What a compliment! What a treat.
Spend time. Whether you have a lot or a little use it and share that smile. A few words of kindness. Leave a basket and let them skip the line at the grocery store. Gather together. Join in family activities. Spread kindness through small acts. Showing kindness doesn’t need to be costly in time or money. They’re simply thoughtful.
Here are 59 things you can do together or random acts of kindness you can do on your way to and from.
Kind acts abound!
“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.” ~ Morgan Freeman
The entrepreneurs’ top random acts of kindness!
1.) Leave a sweet note for someone at home and raise their spirits.
2.) Ask about their upcoming vacation because you’d genuinely love to hear about it.
3.) Ask them to tell you a story about themselves that they never get to share with anyone.
4.) Ask how they are really doing. Empathy can inspire the saddest, the loneliest, the most frustrated.
5.) Ask how you can help. Simply caring reduces stress.
6.) Make a nutritious meal.
Don’t cook? No prob. Bring one from their favorite restaurant.
7.) Drop off a yummy dessert.
8.) Making banana bread? Bake 2 and give one away.
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” ~ Oscar Wilde
9.) Build a care package
10.) Bring a bag of groceries.
11.) Help them with a goal. Like healthy eating: pick up a couple pieces of fruit or fresh seasonal veggies with a new spice. Or movement: take a walk with them. Bring them a kettlebell.
12.) Drop off a basil plant or another windowsill herb.
13.) Send a grocery gift card to a relative who just got their first apartment or is in college.
14.) Call people you love for no reason except to say “hello!”
15.) Tell them how much joy they bring into your life.
16.) Thank them for being there for you.
17.) Thank them for their service.
Thank them in person. By text. By mail.
18.) Dedicate a church service to them.
19.) Leave a favorite color flower by the gravesite of a loved one.
20.) Ask older family members to tell you about their childhood.
21.) Ask for advice or for their opinion.
22.) Read to someone who loved to but now can’t.
23.) Read a child’s bedtime story at a surprise time. It’s better than a toy!
24.) Ask if you can take them somewhere or run an errand for them.
25.) If they are in need offer to throw in a load of laundry and stay to fold it.
26.) Take their trashcans out – or back in.
Build upon the random acts of kindness ideas using the Joy Break Generator!
27.) Introduce them to the Joy Break Generator, which was developed by Ingrid Fetell Lee and have some fun with it.
Leave yourself a reminder and…
28.) Send them an encouraging message on Monday morning.
29.) Remember their birthday or anniversary or first day.
30.) Text “you got this” before a performance, big meeting, or event.
31.) Wake up early and make breakfast for your partner or family members.
32.) Put umbrellas out for your family on a rainy day.
33.) Shovel your neighbor’s walk.
34.) Write a note with your favorite memory of them
35.) Babysit~ their kids or pups so they can take the night off.
36.) Game night! Their house or yours.
- Or game Day and play cards. Or jacks in the driveway.
- On the porch for a quick game of Uno or Kings In The Corner.
- Start a phone challenge like Wordle from afar and share your scores.
- Play holiday bingo. In person, on the phone, or virtually.
- Check out #48 – the scavenger hunt idea is fun for all ages.
More acts of kindness for families and friends…
37.) Send a subscription box of something they love
38.) Put gas in their car.
39.) Go out and pay the bill.
40.) Message a friend and tell them you were thinking of them.
41.) Tell them their favorite movie is on tomorrow at 8
42.) Complement them on something others don’t usually notice.
43.) Recommend a favorite small business.
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain
44.) Walk together.
45.) Find roses and actually go smell the roses.
46.) If they can’t walk, bring them a rose. Or rose scented hand cream.
47.) Or rose scented soap. Or rose scented Anything.
48.) Go on a gratitude or nature scavenger hunt.
49.) Volunteer together at your local shelter or on behalf of a charity.
50.) Ask them to visit a quaint small town or historical monument.
51.) Get tickets to a local museum or garden.
52.) Take them to paint pottery and make gifts for others
53.) Send them to lunch to look at the ocean
54.) Send throwback photos to your family.
55.) Clean something your elderly neighbor can’t.
56.) Water their outside plants on a hot day.
57.) Do it again.
58.) Make a gratitude wheel for them.
59.) Put a date on the calendar right now.
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” ~ Harold Kushnor
Random acts of kindness are about goodness, compassion, and positive practices. It’s one act of kindness along or a kindness challenge that gets the whole family involved. It’s love and support and any and every time of year. If you are looking for ways to lift someone’s spirits, know there are many great ways – heartwarming ways to support. You don’t need to be extravagant, just get creative and be sincere.
You got this.
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