365 Acts Of Kindness

I am creating a FeelGood Calendar - 365 Acts of Kindness - with contributions from REAL people (and credits to those people). One AOK idea per day to inspire, making both giver and receiver feel amazing. Using the power of Social Media – Twitter, Facebook, Blogs etc please help me spread happiness and inspiration!

My Big reasons are:

We all focus easily and quickly on the things that irritate us, but it's just as simple to shift our focus onto ways we can harness our personal power with Acts of Kindness towards strangers. When we look for ways to do it, and expect nothing in return, just seeing the smile on the recipient's face (or even imagining how they must feel when they receive your AOK) creates a huge feel-good-factor that is addictive! At Christmas, advent calendars are everywhere. And they are all about what we can GET each day in the lead-up to Christmas. If Christmas is supposed to be about giving, why are their none for sale that actually give children tasks to do each day? What about Acts Of Kindness ideas or tasks for them to give to others instead of expecting to receive something for every little cardboard door open on their own Advent calendar? When I first wrote my blog about this, I saw first-hand how easy it is shift our focus off ourselves and off all the negatives. Once you start looking for ways to spread happiness becomes top of mind EVERY day. You look at life differently, looking for ways you can do good deeds and make other people's days much happier. The pay off? YOU become a happier person too!

We all focus easily and quickly on the things that irritate us, but it's just as simple to shift our focus onto ways we can harness our personal power with Acts of Kindness towards strangers. When we look for ways to do it, and expect nothing in return, just seeing the smile on the recipient's face (or even imagining how they must feel when they receive your AOK) creates a huge feel-good-factor that is addictive! At Christmas, advent calendars are everywhere. And they are all about what we can GET each day in the lead-up to Christmas. If Christmas is supposed to be about giving, why are their none for sale that actually give children tasks to do each day? What about Acts Of Kindness ideas or tasks for them to give to others instead of expecting to receive something for every little cardboard door open on their own Advent calendar? When I first wrote my blog about this, I saw first-hand how easy it is shift our focus off ourselves and off all the negatives. Once you start looking for ways to spread happiness becomes top of mind EVERY day. You look at life differently, looking for ways you can do good deeds and make other people's days much happier. The pay off? YOU become a happier person too!

My plan will be a success when:

I have enough contributions from at least 365 individuals. I need unique Acts of Kindness contributed - one for every day of the year - all contributed by real people (with a name/contact provided so they can receive a mention for their contribution. I don't want to just steal ideas from other websites, as that defeats the purpose of getting OTHERS to share their ideas. It's the involvement of others' contributions that makes this project real and authentic. Up 'til now, I have had a number of ideas contributed, but too many duplicates. I want each idea to be unique/individual with a 'contributor' name attached...If I get more than 365, it can just keep going to cover 2 years or more. In fact, it would be a HUGE success if it became a coffee-table book! With lots of smaller ebooks or advent-style calendars for different occasions associated with the main book! Now wouldn't THAT be amazing!? I guess I am thinking and PLANNING BIG now!

I have enough contributions from at least 365 individuals. I need unique Acts of Kindness contributed - one for every day of the year - all contributed by real people (with a name/contact provided so they can receive a mention for their contribution. I don't want to just steal ideas from other websites, as that defeats the purpose of getting OTHERS to share their ideas. It's the involvement of others' contributions that makes this project real and authentic. Up 'til now, I have had a number of ideas contributed, but too many duplicates. I want each idea to be unique/individual with a 'contributor' name attached...If I get more than 365, it can just keep going to cover 2 years or more. In fact, it would be a HUGE success if it became a coffee-table book! With lots of smaller ebooks or advent-style calendars for different occasions associated with the main book! Now wouldn't THAT be amazing!? I guess I am thinking and PLANNING BIG now!

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