Angel Tasks
The three daily angel tasks – or random acts of kindness are randomly selected each day from the following list. This list will be continuously updated as new ideas for random acts of kindness are presented to me. I am always looking for more task ideas. If the task is a viable option which I can successfully complete as a random act of kindness both timewise and of course, financially, then it will be added.
- Write a note of appreciation to your mailman
- Compliment a stranger sincerely
- Write a thank you note to someone
- Look for something around you that can be fixed up, picked up, or attended ie, put shopping carts up, pick up some trash laying around, pick up something that has fallen over
- Give a lottery ticket to a stranger
- Send handmade cards or a letter to someone you care for
- Write a note to management or someone themself who has treated you nice while doing their job (waiter, clerk, sales person…ect)
- When you go somewhere to get or do something, ask someone around you if you can pick up, drop off or do something for them while you do
- Cut coupons out and leave them at the grocer register for others
- Cut an article out of the newspaper that would interest a friend and mail it to them.
- Leave have a nice day stickers at a front desk
- Put together a writing kit with stationery, envelopes and stamps, pen and give to hospital/nursing home
- Put a comment on someone’s webpage that you really like…… let them know you enjoy it
- Send a card to someone in the military overseas
- Start a conversation up with a co-worker that you don’t know
- Leave something cheery or nice for all your co-workers (in spring bag of seeds, fun post its, fun office supplies
- Put change in a row of vending machines
- Visit a nursing home. Spend time visiting with someone who doesn’t get visitors
- Put something you no longer need on Craig’s list free spot for your area
- Leave something for someone at an area where it most might be used, (lighter near smoking area, book in reading area, umbrella near door on rainy day)
- Leave a book you have already finished somewhere for someone else to read.
- Drop off a toy or game at a hospital
- Drop off a toy or game at a homeless shelter.
At post office leave some extra stamps at the stamp machine.
- Send a picture you have taken which includes a friend and send it to them with a note remembering when it was taken
- Buy a phone card and give to a homeless shelter for them to give to someone.
- Open the phone book, pick a name, and send them something (movie tickets, thank you card, you are appreciated card, book, etc.) anonymously.
- Take flowers to a hospital ward and give them to someone who hasn’t had any visitors.
- Take some cake, chocolates, flowers etc. to the neighbors, or a senior citizen nearby
- Send someone a small gift anonymously
- Make a cd of your favorite songs and give to a friend
- Donate one hour of your time if you offer a service for a living, or one product, or one seminar, or one class, or just one of whatever it is that you do as a gift to someone else.
- Invite someone who is alone over for dinner.
- Share a comic strip or something funny with someone else.
- Leave a chocolate for a co-worker.
- Write a note, send a e-greeting “just to say hello” to someone who might need a pick me up
- Visit hospitals with smiles, treats and friendly conversation for patients.
- Send a thank you to the employees at a hospital, or anywhere else that a cheerful thank might add a smile
- Put a quarter in a parking meter that has expired
- Write a thank-you note to a person from your past who has made a difference in your life.
- Drop off a plant, flowers or apple pie at a public service orginization or your neighbors house.
- Send someone an animated greeting card on the internet.
- Write a note to the boss of someone who has helped you, praising the employee.
- Drop off teddy bear to police department to give to traumitized children
- Drop a few coins in an area where children play, where they can easily find them.
- Copy a favorite recipie and give it to someone
- Buy a copy of your favorite book and donate it to your local library or hospital
- Write letters of appreciation to groups who are helping the community, the environment, etc.
- Send a card to a friend or relative you haven’t seen for some time. Include a photo of yourself and/or your family.
- Make a point of introducing yourself to someone you see all of the time but never say hello to.
- Send an anonymous scratch card, lottery or theatre ticket to someone you know – or a gift voucher, a funny card, a chocolate bar, or whatever you feel they would enjoy
- If you know someone who is having a hard time financially, pop a $5, $10 or $20 note in an envelope, disguise your writing or type the envelope, and post it to them.
- Offer to baby sit
- Donate clothes to goodwill
- Put change in a charity change bottle
- Bring cookies or some snack to work for office
- Drop off cookies at a random establishment
- Tape some change to a payphone with a card saying it is for whoever needs it
- Write anonymous, loving post-its for strangers to find.
Ideas?
New “angel” tasks ideas are always more than welcome.
So if you have an idea just drop me a line!
In Their Words..
“The kindness planned for tomorrow does not count for today.”
– Unknown –
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
– James Oppenheim –
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. ”
– Anne Frank –
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ”
– Alan Alda –
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
Patanjali. –
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop –
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.”
– Sir Humphrey Davy –
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ”
– Scott Adams –
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver”
– Maya Angelou –
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