Here are twenty small things. None of them take more than a couple of minutes. Pick one. Or don’t. Do your own. The list is just to get you going.
Pick up one piece of litter on your walk. Just the one.
Take the supermarket trolley back, even though you don’t need to.
Let three cars out at the junction in a row.
Bring biscuits in to work. Nobody asked. That’s the point.
Compliment a stranger’s coat. Genuinely. Then keep walking.
Top up a parking meter that’s about to run out.
Hold the lift. Hold the door. Hold the queue.
Refill the bird feeder.
Pick up someone’s dropped glove and hang it on a fence so they spot it.
Leave a kind, slightly silly note on a colleague’s desk.
Buy the person behind you a coffee. Don’t wait around for thanks.
Donate the kids’ old coats to the community fridge.
Help your older neighbour carry their shopping in.
Clear the leaves off the drain outside your house.
Bring the neighbours’ bins in if you’re going past anyway.
Reply to that one message you’ve been meaning to reply to for a week.
Thank the postie. Properly. By name if you know it.
Pick up a coffee cup from the river path. Or the canal. Or the bus stop.
Stop and ask if the person on the kerb is okay.
Text someone a memory of them. No agenda. Just the memory.