Today, buy a gift certificate for three (3) movie tickets and give it to the next homeless person you meet thereafter. Bonus Activity: Buy four (4) movie tickets for a show this evening. Take one friend with you and find two homeless people who want to see the show, and all of you go together.
Go to a local airport, train station, or bus terminal and offer to help stressed travelers carry their bags. Keep offering until someone accepts your offer
Take a few moments to list all the things that you currently feel “forbidden” from doing. Find three (3) of them that you can perform without harming anyone else and quietly do them anyway – “forbidden” or not … Feel free as well to invite passersby and witnesses to join you.
Wander around town today until you find and feed three (3) expired or expiring parking meters – and feed them anonymously.
Pause this morning to consciously stretch for five (5) minutes. Take off your shoes and “scrunch” your toes into the floor/carpet. Interlock your fingers, raise your arms over your head, and turn your palms to the sky. If there is a bar from which you can hang, do so three times (each time for 30 […]
Every “enemy” we have ever had in our lives and every “criminal” we have ever judged has a secret history of pain and struggle for Goodness that – if we were truly aware of it – would make us blush over the raw incorrectness of our condemnation. And indeed, as human beings it is possible […]
Every hour today, pause & look to the heavens, gazing intently into the wonders of the sky for three (3) full minutes; watching the wind & the clouds during the day and watching the moon move across the sky at night. Each time you do so, point out a particular wonder you “re-Discover” to at […]
Go to a public performance and be the first person (and perhaps the only person) to give it a standing ovation. If a public performance isn’t handy, go to the movies, sit in the front row and do the same once it’s over. And if the movies aren’t handy, go outside, look for something amazing […]
Today go forth and be a “pastor” for a day, by going about and actively Blessing all that you see – both those things that obviously need Blessing (e.g. others’ stress, fear, pain, anger, sadness, etc.) and those things that do not (e.g. all things Beauty-full &Wonder-full) …
It is important to remember that the most difficult situations are the moments that inevitably give our Happiness its greatest potency and our lives their fullest Meaning. With this in mind, spend the day today bravely manifesting “bad luck” – walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, wearing the #13, &/or chasing black cats. Do so not […]
Make a simple yet tasty lunch, package it up niftily, and then head out and give it to a “well-dressed” stranger. Include a small gift therein — and a note encouraging its recipient to do something similarly selfless for someone else they encounter today.
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