60 Random Acts of Kindness – Podcast #17

The Birthday Month Continues! With Cys Bronner, BNI Executive Director and CRO (Chief Referral Officer). Celebrate her birthday month with a mindset of Givers Gain and 60 Random Acts of Kindness.

Give With 60 Random Acts of Kindness

Say Good Morning
Leave a note of encouragement
Start a tiny library
Hide 60 (or less) $1 bills around town for people to discover.
Say Thank You
Remember and acknowledge important dates and life events.
Sponsor a youth sports team
Pay it forward
Donate to a blood bank or non-profit milk bank
Foster a dog ‘til it finds a fur-ever home
Wash someone’s car
Offer to help. Anywhere.
Send a card of appreciation
Create an “Earn while you learn” intern program at your work space
Re-purpose a book by gifting it to someone you think would enjoy it.
Volunteer for a nonprofit
Support your local farmers market
Give a random compliment
Donate your unused gift cards
Be a “Snow Angel” to someone; shovel the snow off their walk.
Support your local community
Call someone up and ask them how they are doing. Don’t stop there, ask them what they are up to.
Adopt a Highway
Recycle 60 cans or bottles
Give a social media shout out
Pack a backpack of school supplies for a student in need
Spend 60 minutes listening to someone
Gift toothpaste and tooth brushes to the unhoused
Mow someone’s lawn.
Read to a shut in, retirement home resident or hospital patient.
Donate $60 (or any amount) to DonorsChoose.org
Perform a concert at a retirement home
Wash someone’s car.
Share a daily positive message for 60 days
Pay for the car behind you at the drive-thru
Send a care package to someone in the military
Pick up 60 items of trash
Make someone laugh
Contact the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) for tips on becoming an animal activist in your community.
Hold open a door for someone
Let someone with a few items cut in front of you at the grocery
Adopt a classroom
Schedule a volunteer day with your colleagues
Smile at a stranger and say hello
Pick up 60 pieces of trash
Counsel a friend
Organize a food drive
Give to education via the BNI Foundation and the Business Voices initiative
Pick up your neighbor’s newspaper
Call an older, lonely person to chat
Bring your dog to a retirement home for folks to pet
Bake doggie treats.
Donate your work attire.
Help an elderly person to her car
Offer to be a Mentor
Allow a car to cut in front of you in traffic
Check out donation-based yoga classes or other exercise classes that give back to local charities and needy communities.
Start a team to fundraise and walk, run or ride for a cure.
Surprise your local Fire Fighters, Police, EMTs or Hospital Staff with baked goods.
While standing in front of the mirror tell yourself something positive about you for 60 days in a row.

Cys Bronner, Founder ActionSteps4Success

In networking: The more memorable (positive and helpful) you are, the better the results.
Questions? Feel free to call BNI Executive Director Cys Bronner 866-889-3466 or email her at Cys.Bronner@BNI4success.com
Her motto: BNI, Making word of mouth marketing work for you
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