(No-Cost or Low Cost)

•     Do it!
•     Stop Complaining!
•     Serve someone less fortunate
•     Collect quotes
•     Volunteer
•     Mentor a child
•     Do something without personal glory
•     Turn off the news
•     Get rid of the stuff in your home (6 month rule)
•     Make cookies for a neighbor
•     Organize a neighborhood cookout
•     Send one encouraging card a day
•     Write a nice note and do not sign it
•     Cut a neighbor’s yard
•     Rake someone else’s leaves
•     Offer to babysit for a young couple
•     Stop checking email
•     Attend church services
•     Assist someone carry groceries to their car
•     Put the buggy back at a supermarket
•     Buy your wife flowers or your husband a box of chocolate
•     Take your children to breakfast before school
•     Send your parents a thank you note for raising you
•     Buy someone’s dessert in a restaurant
•     Leave a large tip
•     Paint a picture and hang it in the living room
•     Grow a garden and share your vegetables with others
•     Plant flowers
•     Bake a cake with your children and deliver it to the elderly.
•     Take a walk and think
•     Let someone in while in traffic
•     Turn off the radio while driving and listen to the wind
•     Read a book about something you disagree with
•     Print photos you have taken and make a photo collage.
•     Write “your story”
•     Learn a new hobby
•     Fast for a day
•     Clean your closet out and donate your clothes to the homeless
•     Plant a tree
•     Giveaway some extra jewelry you have to a single mother
•     Call your parents and tell them ‘Thank You”
•     Volunteer to speak at school regarding your profession or hobby
•     Donate your used cell phone to a woman’s shelter or a solider overseas
•     Pay for a couple to attend a marriage retreat. (Do so anonymously)
•     Take off work early and spend time with your family.
•     Write a letter to a soldier and tell them how great a job they are doing. (http://www.adoptaussoldier.org/)
•     Smile
•     Donate school supplies to children in need.
•     Send a widow some flowers
•     Read 1 book a month
•     Begin journaling
•     Turn off your computer for a day and get out of the chair.

Changing the world does not start with a gigantic event, it starts with you and what you can do at this moment.

Chris Gallagher