• Treat a friend to lunch • Send an encouraging or uplifting text to someone • Leave a big tip • Compliment a well-behaved child in front of their parents • Listen to someone when they need to talk. Put down your phone and really listen. • Know someone who’s always on Facebook? Comment on their posts. • Help others to see positivity in a situation • Hold the elevator for someone • Write someone a handwritten letter or note • Invite someone to dinner, especially someone who lives alone • Bring treats to your co-workers at work • Stop at a child’s lemonade or Kool-Aid stand and buy a drink • Call or visit a family member • Send cards to hospitalized children. Find out how at www.cardsforhospitalizedkids.com • Pay for someone else’s meal at a restaurant • Pay for the meal behind you at a drive through • Do someone for your significant other that he/she will really appreciate • Pay for the person’s coffee behind you at the coffee shop • Call or visit someone who is lonely • Recently read a great book? Share it with others • Leave a small, surprise gift for someone going through a ugh time • Donate to a local organization that you care about • Buy someone a cup of coffee or hot chocolate just because • Tell those in your life how much they mean to you. Often. Hug them too. • Let someone go in front of you in traffic or the grocery store line. • Share extra coupons that you won’t use instead of letting them expire • Volunteer your time when you are able • Not an organ donor yet? Sign up to become one at www.organdonor.gov • Encourage others to follow their dreams • Thank our military by sending a card or letter through Operation Gratitude: www.operationgratitude.com • Offer to babysit someone’s child(ren) for a couple hours to give them a break • Know someone who is sick? Visit them if possible or deliver some homemade soup • Find an article your friend or family member might like? Cut it out and send it to them. • Is a loved one going through ongoing medical treatment? Write, call or visit them often. • Donate soda can tabs to a local Ronald McDonald House. The charity receives funds from these. • Read a story to or spend time with a child in your life • Collect Box Tops from packages and donate to local schools • Put a note in your child’s or spouse’s lunch • Bad weather? Check in on an elderly neighbor • Have magazines that you are finished reading? Pass them on to someone else who will enjoy them. • Thank our police, city and county employees for their hard work in keeping the community safe. • Be kind to yourself. Every day, write down 1-3 things that you are grateful for. Every day is an Act of Kindness day Kindness can’t be bought or packaged up to deliver to someone. Real kindness comes from the heart. If you incorporate just one kind act into each day, you’ll be amazed at the response you get and the way you’ll start to feel. You’ll start to become more aware of the positivity flowing right around you. Taking the kindness initiative will likely have the rebound effect, following the same “treat others as you want to be treated” theory. Knowing that you could receive health benefits and receive kindness back, it’s hard not to be sold on being kind every day. We live in a wonderful community full of nice people. Imagine an entire world just a little kinder. It’s possible, with some effort, and it can happen every day. Let it start with you. vBy Julie Eickhoff Sources: www.dayoftheyear.com www.huffingtonpost.com www.liveinthenow.com Keeping Smiles Healthy & Young New Patients and Emergencies Welcome! 1101 Broadway Ste. 105, Morgen Square 605.665.2448 • www.scott-family-dentistry.com Experience Gentle, Personalized Dental Care For Your Entire Family! HERVOICEvJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017v7