(Disclaimer: I’m plagiarizing my recs from the Yale wellbeing course I recommended)
This is harder than socializing! Pick a day and do five good deeds for other people. It’s best if you do it face to face, of course.
I don’t have great ideas for this one, but buying something for someone else gives you a boost. Even if it’s just $5
There’s also this huge one that has a major impact but requires bravery: write a note or letter to someone telling them how much you appreciate them. Give it to them in person and stay while they read it. Takes courage but scientifically speaking it’s very very good for you (and them)
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A therapist told me once that when I was despairing about the world (which is always) to do something small that can make a difference to someone else - she suggested buying a street newspaper, but I will also give money to someone who asks, tip my barista well, bring in my neighbor’s garbage cans, say thank you and mean it.
May 29, 2024
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This is kinda an aspirational rec because I need to get better at this. But even just tiny things like when someone asks the DJ to play ur fave song without u knowing… feels lovely to be known etc etc
Mar 22, 2024
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I read this on Jenny Lawson’s blog and it’s stuck with me.
I particularly like “than you have to be” because it makes kindness an action.
She wrote that in relation to the fact that we don’t know what other people are going through when we encounter them.
This is much easier for me to do for other people than to do for myself!
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