Pay It Forward – Stranger kindness
I’ve been on the hunt for stories about kindness, how one person has helped another and discovered something very exciting. Something much bigger, that can connect people across the world no matter...
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American Bear Film – an adventure in the kindness of strangers
I stumbled across American Bear a few months ago and can’t wait to see their film at the end of this year. Sarah and Greg travelled the country for 60 days, relying on the kindness of strangers. They...
View ArticleThe Kindness Cab
Last year Leon Logothetis gave free rides to strangers in his kindness cab, raising over £10,000 to fund books for Classwish.org. This year he did the Mongol Rally with his team mates, nicknamed the...
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Everyday Kindness – carry A big Smile
I love this idea. Claire Lemmel saw that people in her San Francisco neighborhood weren’t connecting as they walked around, so she decided to do something very simple – carry around a big smile,...
View ArticleHow Panera got it so right – 650k Likes by simply showing a little compassion
This is a brilliant blog post by Bill Taylor about the importance of humanity in business. It’s also a great story about someone who went the extra mile below… Brandon Cook, from New Hampshire, was...
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The blue envelopes spreading random acts of kindness
Imagine on a Monday if you got handed something, by someone you didn’t know. And in it contained a nice message and a £10 note. Well that’s what #givemondays are doing. What a lovely idea. Why not make...
View ArticleThe truck that’s spreading happiness
Whether you like Coca-Cola or not, I’m sure most people will like this. They’ve created a ‘happiness machine on wheels’ which can surely only be a good thing? I like the way the machine is now portable...
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The good giraffe’s acts of kindness
Mohammad Hirzallah was at the North Bridge,Edinburgh, on 10 November. The saying goes ‘the less you have, the more you give’. And that’s certainly true about The Good Giraffe. Armstrong Baillie is...
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Personal social responsibility:why i gave my bike away
Last year I started this blog to up my ‘personal social responsibility’. I’m treating it as an experiment: an exploration of the power of kindness. I volunteered with Spots of Time in the summer and it...
View ArticleThe key to happiness
Harvard psychologist Shawn Achor unveils the key to being and staying happy, we can re-programme our brains, trust him he’s a psychologist! I know the third and fifth are pretty crucial for my...
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