One Kindness One Day

# Tip 1 : SMILE

Smile is the easiest way to show kindness to everyone. It doesn't require any time, effort or energy to do it. The most important thing smile is free but the effect is huge. How do you feel seeing people smiling at you? What is your reaction seeing people smiling at you? Awesome, right? A smile can make someone's day brighter. You might be helping that someone to ease the pains and sufferings just be smiling to them. So, why wait? Show you first kindness towards a heart of compassion. Smile now (even to yourself). =)


# Tip 2 : Greeting
Greeting someone by simple words like Good Morning is crucial and a great start to make people happier. It is even better if you say it with a smile. Not just to represent your friendly image but also to enhance relationship between you with that person. Greeting is not limited to just time greeting but also including special occasions  like during birthday, parents' day, teachers' day and even greetings to certain objectives like during examination, for winning or passing exams and many more. Your greetings make a different in other people's lives as to show your care and concern about their existence. Remember to just greet everyone to indicate how special they are in your lives now. All the best! ;)


# Tip 3 : Do Something for Someone

Doing something for someone unconditionally without expecting anything is a way to show kindness to others. You may offer to do something even without being asked like offering or volunteering to do housework at home, to carry books for your teachers and many more. You don't have to do something for someone only on the special occasions like Parents' Day, Teachers' Day or even birthday. You may do it on the normal days and if can do it oftenly and practice as part of your daily life. With this, people surround you will feel happy, appreciated and most importantly lessen their burden or load of work. Try it today as it feels great.

# Tip 4 : Donate Something

Donation is another popular way to show kindness to others. You may donate anything that you want besides money or cash. You may donate old but useful materials like old toys, old clothes or many. You may also donate other forms donation like blood, time, knowledge or many others. Many people think donation is only restricted to cash or money, so they don't practice donation as they don't have extra. You don't have to be rich or wealthy to do donation. You may donate cash according to your own ability only when  you have enough. Besides cash, you may also donate other forms. If you have energy, donate energy. If you have time, donate time. If you have knowledge, donate knowledge. If you have skills, donate skills and many more. There are many convenience kiosk or stops that you can donate your old times to the needy around you. So, why wait, donate now.

# Tip 5 : Feed a Stray Animal

There are many hungry stray animals like cats and dogs at the street. These animals are homeless, unprotected and hungry most of the time as they are left wondering alone. If you happen to see a hungry stray animal , feed them. You may feed them with the leftover food, bones or any animal canned food that you want to help them survive. With this, you may show a deep compassion on the helpless animals.



# Tip 6 : Pick Up Rubbish

If you happen to see any rubbish on the floor regardless where you are, help to pick it up. With this, you may help to maintain a good hygiene and cleanliness in the environment. At the same time, do not litter to show your care and responsibility as a good citizen. By keeping the environment clean, you might even same a life, lives of an innocent animals especially the lives of the sea creatures. So, pay your role and responsibility as a good citizen by help maintaining a good hygiene, health and clean environment now.

# Tip 7 : Share Something

Sharing is Caring. You may share anything as long as it is beneficial to others. This includes materials like food, toys, stationery or abstract items like inspiration, idea, concept, knowledge to name few that will be able to help someone. You may also share merits that you have created and dedicate to all sentient beings in the universe. By sharing, you will lessen others' burden. By sharing, you will help someone to survive. By sharing, you will rescue others. By sharing, you will reduce sufferings among others. Never underestimate your little effort of sharing as it might be huge and touch someone's life. Remember, sharing is always caring.

# Tip 8 : Say Thank You

Saying Thank You whenever someone does something for you regardless what is a way to show gratitude and appreciation. A simple world Thank You can make those who help you feel appreciated. Say Thank You with sincerity whenever someone helps you like giving you something, helping you to do something, behaving well, praising you or even telling criticizing you to help you to grow wiser and better. Say Thank You without being discrimination. Don't choose to say Thank You only those who are at the higher status or position than you. Say Thank You to all even to someone younger or lower than you whether your subordinate, students, staffs or even your children. With just a Thank You, you can make them feel great and willing to help you again next time. Just how do you feel when someone say Thank You to you, you feel great, right? You feel appreciated, right? Just do the same as you know how positive it react to you when someone appreciate your help and say Thank You to you.

# Tip 9 : Love Yourself

Loving youself is loving others. Loving others is loving yourself. To love others is to love yourself. To love others is to be loved by others. Loving yourself doesn't mean being selfish but looking after yourself well by not engaging and involving in something dangerous, harmful and negative to you. This includes not doing anything that will pollute your mind, heart and soul like involving in law breaking activities like become a drug addicts, a criminal or even in  any unhealthy activities that involve moral values like sexual misconduct, spreading rumuors or any activities that are not beneficial to you. Love yourself means to lead a righteous and a wholesome life towards the right, spiritual and meaningful direction. Loving yourself is also means to take good care of your physical and mentally health (mind) so that your beloved family members, friends and relatives don't have to worry about you. To make them less worried by showing your independence and maturity is a way to repay and show your love and compassion to them.

# Tip 10 : Pray

Praying is important and should be done daily as part of your life. Praying doesn't mean requesting from the Holiness One to fulfill your wishes and goals but a good reminder and promise to be someone better. A real  and sincere prayer shouldn't only be focus on oneself but to focus and dedicate to others like your family members, friends and relatives or even to all sentient beings in the universe. Prayers for oneself are meant for self-improvement on the characteristics and attitude but not on achieving success or gaining other materials or achievements. The prayer is meant for yourself to be reminded and awakened. However, you may always pray for the benefit of others like prayers for safety, health, peace and others. Prayers are not only be practiced when you are down. You may practice it anytime, anywhere for anyone as you wish as long as you are sincere. Pray now as your prayers will be heard. May all be well and happy.

# Tip 11 : Feel People's Shoes

Feeling People's Shoes will help you to be considerate and understand why people behave in different manners. It can also develop compassion and sympathy for others. You will accept if there's any misbehave among others by understanding their real situation. For example, a child who feels his parents' shoes of being busy and working hard to raise and support family members. Same thing for a parent who feels his child's shoes by understanding the work load and stress borne by the child in school. If all of us practice this simple method and be more considerate, less argument, misunderstanding, hatred and revenge will be formed. People will start to leave in peace and harmony.

# Tip 12 : Rejoice

Rejoicing of people's success will help you become someone generous, compassionate, joyous by reducing or even eliminating your envy and jealous towards people's success. Rejoice by celebrating and happy on people's success and happiness will make you more humble too. You may also help people surround you feeling happy and comfortable whenever they are with you.





# Tip 13 : Speak Truth And Beneficial Words

Speak only the truth, not lie just to please someone. Speak only the truth, but the beneficial truth at the right time not to hurt someone, unless someone who ask for the truth or advice. Mind your words as words have the potential to heal or to hurt. Once spoken, cannot be taken back. Hurtful words are as sharp as knives as they are really hurt if misused. Never gossips. Never spread rumuors. Always be careful with your words with anyone, anytime, anywhere. According to Buddha, if you know it is not truth but not helpful, don't speak. If you know it is not truth but helpful, don't speak. If it is truth but not helpful, don't speak. Speak only if it is truth and helpful at the right time. Speak only good words that always have the intention to help and benefit others. With this, less people will be hurt by the hurting and untruth words of others.

# Tip 14 : Be a Volunteer

Volunteering in any social work is a compassionate way to show kindness to others. The objective of volunteering is to help others and to contribute back to the community. Learn to work and give for free without expecting anything in return unconditionally. With this, you will remind yourself not to be ego and remain humbleness and kindness in you. Volunteering can be in many forms, either in Buddhist activities, recycling activities, counseling, education, social work and many more.  By volunteering, you are not just helping others but also helping yourself in personal mastery and creating merits. So, show your compassion by volunteering now.

# Tip 15 : Forgive Others

To forgive others is to forgive yourself. To forgive yourself is to forgive others. Forgiving others is hard but worth to do. You are not only making people feel relief and happier by forgiving others; you will also feel great and happy when you forgive others. How do you feel when you don't forgive others? Your heart is filled with anger, revenge and hatred, right? These negative emotions will lead you to more suffering, hurt and pain. On the other hand, how do you feel when you forgive others? You will ease all these negative thoughts in your heart and replace them with positive thoughts and emotions like compassion, loving kindness and generosity. You will feel awesome, right? You will even feel lighter. So, give people a chance by forgiving them and learn from their mistakes. After all, you are given second chances when you make mistakes. Learn to accept that no one is perfect and people tend to make mistakes. Just forgive others, let go and move on. You are not only showing kindness to others but to yourself too. Remember, to forgive others is to forgive yourself.

# Tip 16 : Be Mindful

Mindfulness is important to prevent us from misspoken, misdoing and mis-thinking. Mindfulness means be alert and careful of your speech, actions and thoughts. Like the Buddha said "Speak Good Words, Think Good Thoughts and Do Good Deeds." Imagine if all of you be careful and mindful with your words, actions and thinking, there will be peace and harmony as everyone is truly aware of his actions. For example, take a second to think before you speak to anyone so that you will not speak out any words that is hurtful, harsh or even harmful. With this, you are more considerate and compassion on your words. You will choose positive or kind words when you speak to others. At the same time, you will control your bad emotion like Anger if you are aware and alert of the rise of your negative emotion. With this, peace and harmony will be again formed. So, practice Mindfulness now and you will experience true happiness and inner peace within you.

# Tip 17 : Think Positive

No matter what happen in your life, think positive. There's always a light in every darkness. You just have to put a little patience in it. The light will grow when the time is right. Remember, nothing is permanence. Happiness nor sadness will not last. So be positive about everything that happen in your life because the better one is about to appear. If you think positive in everything you do, you will not only cheer yourself up but also people surround you can feel your positive influence. So, be positive no matter what.



# Tip 18 : Be Polite

Politeness is important to show kindness to others. People who are polite can create comfort, peace and harmony with others. Be polite even when others are rude to you. Politeness is crucial to show respect and also to earn back respect from others. Politeness can also display one's image and create good impression for others. People would love to be with those who are polite because politeness make them feel happier, more peaceful and more comfortable.




# Tip 19 : Compliment Others

Compliment others is important as long it is true and sincere from the heart. Praise or compliment others anytime, anywhere to anyone. You may just praise someone from the look like "You look great!", "You look fresh!", or when someone done a good job like "Well done!", "Congratulations!", "Good work!" or many more. Complimentary can increase people's confidence level and also help them to continue to work harder for personal development. You may also build a better relationship with them when you praise them sincerely. They will surely feel happy and comfortable with you too. Praise what is truth and not over-doing it or just for the sake of pleasing someone. It must be done from the bottom of your heart. A true compliment can help build trust and friendship among each other too. So, compliment someone today.

# Tip 20 : Focus on the Goodness not the Weakness

People tend to find mistakes, faults and weaknesses of others. Do you like it when people find mistakes, faults and weaknesses of yours? Of course no. Everyone has his own uniqueness or advantages. To help others to nurture and grow, you have to focus on their goodness or advantages, not weakness or disadvantages. For example, a mother who focuses on her child's talent of art will help her child to brush up the talent until successful. The child will grow up to be a fine and successful artist in this line. You may also focus on others' good characteristics like hardworking, kindness, honest and many more. When you focus on their advantages, they will increase confidence level among themselves and improve further. Remember, focus on others' goodness and not weakness.

# Tip 21 : Appreciate What You Have

Appreciation is one of the most important way to show kindness to others especially to your own associates of family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, teachers, and many more. Appreciate what you have. Appreciate what you own. Appreciate where you are. Appreciate whom you have. Appreciate goodness. Appreciate success. Appreciate failures. Appreciate mistakes. Appreciate what comes. Appreciate what goes. Appreciate everything that relates to you in this life as nothing is permanence. Things come and things go. Appreciate everything while you still can before it is too late.


# Tip 22 : Listen

Listening is always better than speaking. Do you know why you were born with two ears and one mouth? The purpose is for you to listen more than speaking. People tend to speak more than listen as they assume speaking more is wiser. They prefer to control others so they use words to control them and to show their power towards others. Silence speaks a thousand words. Only speak with wisdom whenever necessary. Empty vessels make the most noise. Listening is also a way to show respect and kindness to others. Listening is also a humble way to show compassion to others. Listen to people's need and be a shoulder to cry on and reducing people's pains and stress just by listening. When you listen, you will gain more. When you listen, you'll understand more. When you listen, you'll learn more. So, start listening now for a better improvement.