The Daily Kindness Digest #1227
Kindness Quote
“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.”
William Butler Yeats
Act of Kindness
Find a public wish list online and send a gift to a stranger.
Positive Affirmation
You make a lot of decisions every day. Why not choose to be joyful and spread joy today!
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1226
Kindness Quote
“I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.”
Jarod Kintz
Act of Kindness
Surprise your coworkers on a Monday morning with some breakfast treats!
Positive Affirmation
Everyday I come one step closer to being the person I dream of being. I will be more forgiving, more accepting, and kinder.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1225
Kindness Quote
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Act of Kindness
Grab a doggy bag after a big dinner out and give it to the first person you see who could use a nutritious meal.
Positive Affirmation
Today I will be the change. I will do my best to improve the world one person at a time and do something special for someone that needs love, positivity and more to smile about. Even the smallest act of kindness can make an impact!
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1224
Kindness Quote
“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley
Act of Kindness
Volunteer to be a tutor or mentor in school, especially if there is an area in which you excel and can help another student.
Positive Affirmation
Today I remind myself that I don’t have to carry the baggage of past mistakes. I learn from my experiences and move on with greater insight and understanding.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1223
Kindness Quote
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
George Bernard Shaw
Act of Kindness
Come across a stray animal? Take some time to bring it to the animal shelter or simply make a phone call. Your call may help reunite an owner with his or her pet.
Positive Affirmation
Today I am caring. I don’t simply do kindness I live it.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1222
Kindness Quote
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ it will be enough.”
Meister Eckhart
Act of Kindness
Make eye contact and say “thank you” to everyone you encounter today who provides a service or makes your life easier even in the slightest way.
Positive Affirmation
Today I look up at the sky and I’m THANKFUL for all the beauty that surrounds me even in the midst of a storm.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1221
Kindness Quote
“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”
Teresa Mummert
Act of Kindness
Make a list of everything you love about your best friend and give it to him or her to read and preserve forever.
Positive Affirmation
Today I remind myself of all the things I am blessed with, and I do not take any of them for granted. I tell the people that I love how much I appreciate them.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1220
Kindness Quote
“Many hands make light work.”
John Heywood
Act of Kindness
Help your parent or roommate prepare the Thanksgiving table for dinner. Quality time; plus, give the table an extra special touch of you.
Positive Affirmation
Today I am looking forward to helping others! Instead of asking what people can do for me, I will ask what I can do for them!
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The Kindness Flash #48
This month’s theme: RESILIENCE
Reflections
Thoughts from Our Founder – We have just come off of an incredible WORLD KINDNESS WEEK as we celebrated Life Vest Inside’s 9th Annual Worldwide Dance for Kindness and launched our first ever Kindness Challenge and Digital event featuring over 50+ speakers and performers! Thank YOU to all who participated and took part in the festivities.
Missed a talk you were excited to hear?! Not to worry, ALL the talks will be uploaded to our YouTube channel so you can enjoy these incredible speakers time after time. Read More >>
Reflections by Bella Yang (LVI Intern) – I used to think about diligence exclusively in a “work” context — working hard in school, going the extra mile at a job. Over quarantine, I had time to re-conceptualize my relationship with “work” and broaden my definition of diligence. Read More >>
Articles of the Month
What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others – Resilience is substantiated by science and influenced by external factors that we may not even realize. Studies pertaining to the psychology of resilience can serve our conception of how we can build and compound our resilience.
Building your resilience – Imagine you’re going to take a raft trip down a river. Along with slow water and shallows, your map shows that you will encounter unavoidable rapids and turns. How would you make sure you can safely cross the rough waters and handle any unexpected problems that come from the challenge?
What is Resilience and Why is It Important to Bounce Back? – We so often forget about how much power we have over our lives and our circumstances. Remind yourself that you do indeed have the power to improve your resilience and build your competence and confidence in yourself.
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
Emory Austin
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Maya Angelou
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”
Jodi Picoult
Act of Kindness
Offer a helping hand or a listening ear to a friend that may be dealing with unexpected stress. Write them a motivational letter, take them out for a coffee or jump on a Zoom call. With the uncertainty happening all over the world, we all need a person we can unload on, that will hear us out without any judgement. Who knows, this interaction could change their entire outlook on whatever they may be stressed out about.
Make a commitment to push through no matter what. With the uncertainty happening all over the world and in our very own lives, we can at times feel beaten and want to simply throw in the towel. You are stronger than you think and YOU can overcome! Is it easy? No, sometimes it feels impossible. However, keep your eye on the goal and take one baby step each day to make that day better than the last. You may fall every so often as you climb up, continue climbing anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what would you say to someone who was experiencing hardships like yours? How would you uplift them. Now turn that inspiration and hope on yourself.
Question of the Month
What have you learned about yourself in these challenging times? Share here or in the comments below.
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Photo of the Month
What does this picture make you feel and why? Share your thoughts.
Songs of the Month
Reminding us that when it feels like life is an uphill battle, we must “rise up, rise like the day, rise up, rise unafraid, rise up and do it a thousand times again.” This song illustrates the power and capacity of the human spirit.
What song do you turn to when to push you forward when you feel as though you’re about to lose the fight?
Videos of the Month
LVI Founder, Orly Wahba takes you through her personal journey of overcoming adversity through her childhood and adolescent years and how kindness played a huge role in developing her sense of self value and self love.
How communities can build their resilience to shocks, setbacks and disasters by anticipating risk, working together and adapting to new or changing challenges.
Books of the Month
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back – Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healey – Provocative, optimistic, and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on why some systems, people, and communities fall apart in the face of disruption and, ultimately, how they can learn to bounce back.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy – Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant – Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces.
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brené Brown – Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are.
Emily’s Gift: The True Story of Sherlock and Jackson – Ellen Shane – A moving tale of how the youngest Shane sibling tries to negotiate a puppy for her loving and pet-less family. It explores the various steps to pet ownership. From parental consent to understanding the responsibility of owning a dog, to selecting a puppy and properly caring for the new family member.
The Most Magnificent Thing – Ashley Spires – A charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. “She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing!” But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl tries and fails, repeatedly.
Rosie Revere, Engineer – Andrea Beaty – The beloved New York Times bestselling picture book about pursuing one’s passion with persistence and learning to celebrate each failure on the road to achieving one’s dreams.
Reflections on Resilience
I’ve thought a lot about resilience this past year. Applying to college and being thrown into quarantine immediately after cast a shadow over what was supposed to be the best year of high school. People say that college applications are a test of resilience, but as I trudged through them, I realized that they were really a microcosm of daily adversities and challenges. Resilience is not attributed to just large, defining events, but also in how we react to daily, more minute disruptions. I see resilience, or the opportunity to exert resilience, everywhere now. Platitudes of ‘success cannot exist without failure’ or ‘failure is not the opposite of success, but part of it’ are imbued with greater significance when we frame it in terms of resilience: the act of succeeding is defined by bouncing back after failure. Succeeding once and never recuperating from subsequent failures does not encompass success. Resilience is part of our day-to-day, but do we even realize it? I know I did not until this past year, especially in the latter half. I would love to hear your thoughts and to have a greater discussion about resilience!
– Bella Yang, Intern, Life Vest Inside
Reflections on Resilience - Orly Wahba
We have just come off of an incredible WORLD KINDNESS WEEK as we celebrated Life Vest Inside’s 9th Annual Worldwide Dance for Kindness and launched our first ever Kindness Challenge and Digital event featuring over 50+ speakers and performers! Thank YOU to all who participated and took part in the festivities.
Missed a talk you were excited to hear?! Not to worry, ALL the talks will be uploaded to our YouTube channel so you can enjoy these incredible speakers time after time. Be sure to subscribe to our channel and click the “bell icon” so that you will receive a notification when videos are posted. I hope to upload all talks within the next two weeks.
For those who weren’t able to join us LIVE on Friday for our end of the week celebrations and announcement of the WINNERS of the “I Can Be Kind” Challenge, I am excited to announce our THREE WINNERS!
Let’s give a round of applause for:
- Nikitha Lakkasani: Nikitha accumulated the MOST points, winning with 1,155 points! Incredible job!
- Suds4society
- B. BHAVINI MANOGNA
Congrats to ALL the winners and Congrats to ALL of our Kindness Challengers! Regardless of whether you won the prize, KINDNESS in and of itself is the greatest prize of all!
The challenge will remain open, as of now, until the end of November and we may possibly continue to add challenges that each of you can take part in throughout the course of the year. If you would like to take the Kindness Challenge, request an invite at leaders.danceforkindness.com
Once you complete ALL 9 challenges you will have access to create your KINDNESS CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE right on the platform. Over the course of the next month or so we will be releasing video compilations of the awesome challenge videos you’ve each submitted.
For those of you who want to be included in our WORLDWIDE DANCE FOR KINDNESS MONTAGE video, you will have until the end of November to learn the dance HERE, record yourself doing the OFFICIAL dance steps and submit your video to info@danceforkindness.com. When recording the dance be sure to film it horizontally.
Thank you all for being the change you wish to see in the world and continue to grab hold of the kindness opportunities all around you!
~Orly Wahba
Founder, Life Vest Inside
The Daily Kindness Digest #1219
Kindness Quote
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
Carol Burnett
Act of Kindness
Send a card to a friend or loved one who recently accomplished something that means a great deal to them.
Positive Affirmation
Today I will APPRECIATE everyone in my life. Letting my loved ones know how much they mean to me is very important.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1218
Kindness Quote
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Act of Kindness
Treat a coworker to lunch. We can get so wrapped up in work mode that we forget to truly connect with people. Infusing the workplace with a bit of kindness can do wonders to the way we feel.
Positive Affirmation
Today I am a great friend! I will take time out of my day to help my pals out in any way they need!
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1217
Kindness Quote
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Act of Kindness
Buy some fast-food certificates and have them handy to gift to those in need of a warm meal.
Positive Affirmation
Today I recognize that I am wealthy in ways that pertain to more than my finances! The measure of true wealth is the amount of love and happiness I give and receive in life! Unlike money, love and happiness lasts a lifetime!
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1216
Kindness Quote
“Always believe something wonderful is about to happen.”
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
Act of Kindness
Pay for the coffee of the person behind you at the drive-through.
Positive Affirmation
Today I will be HOPEFUL. I believe in a better future, and I trust that kindness will prevail.
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The Daily Kindness Digest #1215
Kindness Quote
“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”
Robin S. Sharma
Act of Kindness
Bring flowers to a hospital to give to patients who may not get any visitors. (Just ask a nurse who’s in need of a visit.)
Positive Affirmation
Today I am resourceful. I seek ways to use what I have to bring joy to others.