7 Simple Random Acts of Kindness Ideas to Try

1. Surprise someone with an authentic compliment about how they handled something.
2. Listen closely to an acquaintance who’s in need of being heard.
3. Lend a hand to a stranger.
4. Say a genuine “thank you” to the conductor on the train or the cashier at the grocery store.
5. Let another driver cut in front of you with a cheery wave.
6. Check in on your elderly neighbor and share coffee and a laugh.
7. Smile and make eye contact with a stranger.

With one random act of kindness at a time, we help each other become more present and connected — and healthier, too.

Excerpted from How to Be Well, by Frank Lipman, MD. Copyright © 2018 by Frank Lipman, MD. Illustrations by Giacomo Bagnara. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

This originally appeared as “Connect: Practice Appreciation for Your Fellow Beings” in “6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life” in the July/August 2018 print issue of Experience Life.