What is done in LOVE is done WELL!
- Make someone a cup of tea.
- Give a hug.
- Ask “How may I help you?”
- Listen to them carefully and without interrupting.
- Say “I’m sorry.”
- Be polite.
- Say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you.’
- Offer to carry a person’s bag.
- Buy a box of cookies and offer them around to strangers.
- Buy them a gift from the dollar store
- Help with a household chore.
- Make them a meal.
- Offer up your seat.
- Write them a letter.
- Tell them you wish you understood.
- Bring them ibruprofen for their headache.
- Invite them to play.
- Acknowledge and respect their feelings even if you feel they are not accurate/appropriate.
- Hold their hand.
- Smile.
- Buy them a small chocolate (but not if they’re on a diet. :-))
- Treat them to their favorite coffee.
- Surprise them with an unexpected visit or phone call.
- Give them a handwritten card.
- Gently wash and dress their cut/wound.
- Carry someone’s bags.
- Pick up some trash.
- Return a misplaced or lost item.
- Tell them about the best part of the day you just spent with them.
- Let them sleep.
- Offer them a drink of water.
- Wear or use a gift they gave you in their presence.
- Keep that sigh to yourself.
- Use a kind voice even if you have to fake it.
- Listen for the feelings behind the words.
- Put chocolate chips in their pancakes.
- Buy them some flowers.
- Run them a bath.
- Donate your unwanted items
- Send off a care package to the military.
- Share your homegrown vegetables.
- Give a new mom her own gift.
- Buy a stranger lunch.
- Pay for a strangers bridge toll.
- Let someone go first through a door.
- Hold a door open for someone.
- Respect someone’s wishes.
- Write Post-It notes with encouraging messages and leave them in library books.
- Write a thank you note.
- Leave some change at the coffee machine.
- Let people through in traffic.
- Hold up your hand in thanks when other drivers let you through.
- Use a compost bin and recycle as much as possible.
- Acknowledge someone else’s kindness to you.
- Leave a tip plus another dollar.
- Visit a sick friend.
- Babysit for free.
- Say ‘I love you’ with meaning.
- Tell them how wonderful they are and how happy you are to have them in your life.
- Pay a compliment.
- Leave your old magazines in waiting rooms.
- Volunteer.
- Write love notes and put them in their lunches.
- Go visit your parents. Tell them how much you appreciate them (or one thing about them you do appreciate ;-))
- Choose a book they might like and lend it to a friend.
- Let someone go ahead at the checkout.
- Share your knowledge with someone who needs it.
- Welcome new people to your neighborhood, school, club, etc.
- Send a copy of a photo to the person in it.
- Share herbs from your garden.
- Share a good recipe.
- Let someone cut in line at the movie theater.
- Donate your “read” books to the library.
- Express your empathy.
- Make someone else’s bed.
- Sing while you vacuum.
- Smile at every stranger at the mall.
- Be patient when you want to yell.
- Put change in an expiring meter.
- Buy a sandwich for the person asking for cash in front of the grocery store.
- Water someone’s drying/dying flowers.
- Take the garbage out for a friend.
- Take a rose to someone in the home for the elderly.
- Hold them while they cry.
- Give them a chocolate bandaid.
- Invite them over for scones and clotted cream
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