In celebration of random acts of kindness week, I thought I would start a few memes. Hopefully this will help us focus on being kind. Plus, I get to learn a bit more about people! Yeah!
Kind Fives
1. List five kind things you for yourself. List five kind things you for your closest friend, partner or child. List five kind things you have done for a stranger.
2. Tag five people.
Easy, right?
Five kind things things I do for myself:
1. Try to workout at least four times a day.
2. Forgive myself when I make a mistake.
3. Take a break when I’m tired.
4. Practice active understanding and kindness to my inner critic.
5. Interact with positive, kind people.
Five kind things I do for my closest friend, partner, or child:
1. I make my husband’s lunch every day. If I didn’t, he wouldn’t eat.
2. I try to say at least one positive thing about him every day - ‘You look nice’, ‘Thank you for doing that’, ‘Well done’, etc.
3. I work to listen when he talks.
4. I stand to greet him when he comes home.
5. I never speak negatively about him to other people. Ever.
Five kind things I have done for strangers:
1. I regularly let people with less items in front of me at the grocery or at Costco.
2. Denver’s streets are small. You end up face to face with someone coming in the other direction. When I’m in this situation, I always smile at the person coming in the opposite direction. They are always so surprised at the smile and smile back.
3. I routinely invited people to dinner who are single or don’t usually have dinner plans. Then I send them home with food.
4. I work to leave positive supportive comments on people’s blogs.
5. I pray for people I don’t know. Sometimes I see them at the gym or on the street. Sometimes I read about them on weblogs or in the newspaper. I try to send love and light, even a hug, when I see someone who needs it.
I tag:
- Jill at Another day in the same life,
- Chuck at Foster me up,
- Sacred Ruminations,
- Julie at the Compulsive Worrier
- Waking up in Portland.
and anyone else who would like to do it!
10 responses so far ↓
1 Julie (CG) // Feb 11, 2008 at 6:26 pm
i’m impressed with all your acts of kindness! Thanks for the tag: I’ve done it and will post it tomorrow!
2 chuck // Feb 12, 2008 at 2:34 am
now this is a neat meme. i’m getting a little tired of the other ones that really mean nothing to me. you’re just the coolest. i’ll do this at the next opportune moment!…now on to my book.
3 storyteller // Feb 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I’ve enjoyed learning a bit more about you here today and will check out those you’ve tagged soon. I’ve been tagged recently (multiple times) for a variety of memes waiting for my attention, but believe this “King Fives” meme is a more interesting exercise than most … so I’ll give it some thought and let you know when I share my responses. Today I’m playing “catch up” with email, responding to comments on my blogs over the past few days, and I’ve promised Molly a trip to Dog Beach since she’s spent lots of time at home alone recently. FYI … my name is Virginia.
Hugs and blessings,
4 storyteller // Feb 19, 2008 at 8:23 pm
It took me a week, but I’ve published my Kind Fives Meme responses today at
http://sacredruminations.blogspot.com/2008/02/kind-fives-from-everyday-kindness.html
Although I haven’t tagged anyone specifically, I’ve encouraged others to follow suit and left a little “incentive” on the post as well.
Hugs and blessings,
5 Dont be sad // Feb 22, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Hey,
I was very glad to have stumbled upon your beautiful site– I love the daisies.
This meme is wonderful– I enjoyed reading it.
Kind regards,
Dont be sad
6 chuck // Feb 26, 2008 at 12:16 am
I’ve finally posted. Look at me go (HA) here it is: http://rnning2wn2.blogspot.com/2008/02/kind-fives-meme.html
Sorry, really for being so late. I really am glad you tagged me. These are the kinds of memes I truly want to play.
7 Colin // Mar 5, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Chuck aka Rhonda tagged me with this one LOL,
but me being me I tend to put a slightly different slant on things….probably because I’m bad
It was fun nonetheless.
Have a wonderful day,
Colin from Life
8 Admin // Mar 5, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Chuck - Thanks for playing!
Colin - I’m excited to see what you had to say - fun!
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