Discover simple ways to spread joy and improve your own well-being by brightening someone else’s day, with these 50 ideas by the Mental Health Foundation.
- Call a friend that you haven’t spoken to for a while
- Send a letter to a grandparent
- Send flowers to a friend
- Offer to pick up some groceries for your elderly neighbour
- Send someone a handwritten note
- Offer to babysit for a friend
- Walk your friend’s dog
- Tell your family members how much you love and appreciate them
- Help your parents with household chores
- Help a friend get active
- Make someone laugh
- Offer to cook for a friend or family member
- Make a cup of tea for a friend or family member
- Help with a household chore at home or for a friend
- Host an informal get together and invite your neighbours to get to know each other
- Tell someone you know that you are proud of them
- Tell someone you know why you are thankful for them
- Send a motivational text to a friend who is struggling
- Send someone you know a joke to cheer them up
- Send someone you know a picture of a cute animal
- Send an inspirational quote to a friend
- Send an interesting article to a friend
- Put a surprise note or drawing on someone’s desk
- Contact someone you haven’t seen in a while and arrange to meet face to face
- Engage in conversation with a shop assistant when paying at the till
- Spend time playing with your pet
- Sign up to do voluntary work in your local community
- Reach out to spend time with a friend, family member or neighbour who is experiencing loneliness
- Have a clear out and take items to a charity shop
- Make and send a care package to someone who needs it
- Make a donation to a charity
- Offer to pick up a friend or family member from work
- Make a cup of tea for your colleagues
- Get to know the new staff member
- Lend your ear – listen to your colleague who is having a bad day
- Say good morning
- Bake a cake for your colleagues
- Give praise to your colleague for something they’ve done well
- If it’s raining – lend someone your umbrella
- Take someone out for lunch instead of eating at your desk
- Give up your seat to an elderly, disabled or pregnant person
- Let someone jump the queue at the supermarket
- Take a minute to help someone who is lost
- Have a conversation with someone who is experiencing homelessness
- Help a mother carrying her push chair down the stairs or hold the door for her
- Let a fellow driver merge into your lane
- Pick up some rubbish lying around in the street
- Smile and say hello to people you may pass every day, but have never spoken to before
- Return a lost item to its owner
- Pop into a coffee shop and ask to pay for a coffee for them to give to someone later that day for free
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