Day 74 of 90 · Connection
Do one kind thing
“I shovelled my neighbour's path. Took ten minutes, made my whole morning.” — Kai
Today's action · 10 min
Do one deliberate act of kindness today, big or small: help a neighbour, pay a compliment, leave a kind note. Notice how you feel afterwards.
Why it works
A meta-analysis by Curry and colleagues found that performing acts of kindness had a small-to-medium positive effect on the wellbeing of the person doing them. Helping others turns out to help us too.
Source: Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (Curry et al., 2018)
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