In many ways, getting into action can get us feeling good about ourselves. Small acts that we can control, that move us out of the reactive state, are creative. When we do something 'for ourselves' i.e. do it whether someone approves it or not, we start feeling good. My secret intention is to start building such a community of people who start doing small acts of love for themselves.
Some years ago when I first started doing the workshop for MBAs, the concept of ownership, self worth was discussed and I left it at doing 21 things out of your comfort zone for 21 days as a practice of changing our mindset.
Then one day I wrote down some acts which I think I never shared. Initially 21 acts for 21 days. I found that list now, and realised I could use it too. And added some more.
Some acts - some of them written specially for students so you may have to modify them.
- Plant a tree
- Gift a plant
- Give a lecture
- Learn a new word
and use it with a friend
- Talk to your
sweeper, cook, watchman and find out about their lives, families
- Talk to one
successful person a week and ask the route to success
- Make a one page
plan for your business and see how it makes a difference
- Teach one word,
one concept to a small child, teach a thank you, please
- Take up one
improvement at home or campus and do it
- Smile at one new person, at everyone after that
- Introduce
yourself to a new person
- Walk instead of taking the bus
- Organize a tree
plantation drive
- Organize a clean
campus, clean college drive
- Donate blood
- Donate organs
- Make tea or
coffee for your parents, friends
- Ask your mother
her dreams
- Clean your room
- Get rid of all stuff you don't need
- Gift a pencil to
a poor school child
- Tell one concept
to a person who might benefit from it
- Teach a school
kid one concept he cannot understand
- Offer to make a
business plan to your canteen wala
- Pray with a
friend of another religion
- Educate a slum
about health and sanitation
- Pick up trash
- Do gardening
- Start a book
reading group
- Start a book
club, a movie club and discuss
- Start a
political discussion
- Start a movement
on how to promote honesty and transparency (reduce corruption)
- Make a
difference with one act every day
- Promote peace - speak peacefully for a whole day
- Make one person smile
- Pay one compliment
- Do one thing that you have been putting off
- Call one old friend to say Hi
- Visit someone and give them a small gift like a chocolate
- Go to the mirror and smile at yourself - you are doing a good job
- Write down 50 dreams, then write 50 things to do towards achieving them
- Say yes to everything
- Tell someone who needs support that you fully believe in him or her
- Make a list of all the people you take for granted and thank them - in your own way
- Pay money joyfully every time you pay
- Buy one thing for yourself for your own enjoyment and enjoy it fully
- Make a connection with one new person every day - for 30 days
- Give candy to a child begging at the traffic signals
- Take a selfie with a cop - like they do at Buckingham palace or in the USA
- Write a letter to all the people who made a difference to you
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