116 ways to be kind

• Listen
• Never, ever, ever use ethnic or social slurs when talking to or about people
• Defend people against gossip
• Look folks in the eye (especially those who are often ignored)
• Respond pleasantly to rudeness
• Be kind enough to tell her that she has food on her face or to tell him that his fly is open
• Care about people's feelings
• Sit down and have a conversation
• Write a note of encouragement
• Write a letter of appreciation
• Make a phone call to check up and encourage
• If someone offends you, let it slide
• Fight the urge to always be right
• Try (and try some more) to understand
• Offer assistance
• Do not mock
• Give compliments
• Use popcorn prayer to pray for folks all day long
• avoid being condescending
• don't be preachy
• don't feel the need to have the last word
• smile
• send a encouraging bumper sticker or button on facebook 
• Touch
• Buy groceries for someone in need
• Offer to babysit
• Tip well
• Give a financial gift to a charity in somebody's name
• Help with a car repair
• Don't laugh at someone
• Give a book
• Fix a meal
• Provide transportation
• Shovel a walk, mow a lawn, rake a yard
• Offer to sit with someone while their caregiver gets a break
• Give a gift (not for Christmas or birthdays)
• Make an effort to include "the least of these¨
• Adopt a senior citizen
• Befriend the lonely and the left behind
• Visit
• Prepare a care package
• Give sacrificially
• Splurge on someone
• Pass out water on a hot day
• Run errands
• Offer to tutor
• Help get their car (physically and figuratively) out of the ditch
• The whole barn raising thing
• Care when you ask “how are you?”
• Take enough extra to share your lunch with others
• Offer to carry another person’s stuff
• Offer to team up with someone to get their task finished
• show others through tangible ways that you are thinking of them
• look out for the well being of others
• be a giver
• offer to go along
• don't pressure
• don't tempt
• remember people's birthdays and other special days
• help a novice with their computer
• focus on people when they are lonely or sad
• introduce people to one another
• help a friend move
• help your teacher
• clean up after an event

116 ways to be kind

• Give money to meet a need
• Give someone your spot in line
• Open doors
• Move over for walkers and bikes
• Serve as an advocate
• Say thank you to those who are not often thanked
• Give up your seat
• Provide for the homeless
• Offer space under your umbrella
• Help someone pick up the stuff they have dropped
• Give people a break
• Pay someone's bill
• Offer to return a shopping cart
• Pick up the tab for another table in a restaurant
• Fill up someone's gas tank
• Park away from the store or restaurant so that others may park closer
• Donate your hair
• Wash a car/ clean a window
• Show them how to use the automated check-out if they are confused
• Give your clothes, your stuff, your car to charity
• when folks are rude, be pleasant and patient
• take the iniative to be kind
• be considerate
• care about future generations through your actions
• welcome newcomers into your social group
• practice road etiquette
• don't cheat
• don't download data illegally
• show your concern for the elderly
• show your concern for someone who has lost a loved one
• show your concern for the families of military personnel
• Volunteer
• Buy with sensitivity
• Don’t litter
• Clean up your mess (and other messes as well)
• Walk across the room to meet the stranger
• Reduce/Recycle/Re-use
• Forgive
• Don’t judge
• Speak the truth in love
• Treat people with respect
• Accept
• Give each other a break
• Do unto others
• Save gas by using public transportation
• Give newspaper clippings and photos to people who would appreciate them
• Ask neighbors for their prayer concerns- and then pray for them
• Return your shopping cart to the corral in the parking lot
• Clean up the litter along your street
• Get involved in cabin maintenance at church camp
• Offer directions when someone is confused or lost