Be decent
Kindness without a project
Skip the journal and the tote bag. Pick one specific thing. Do it once. If you want a second, fine. The list is not a score.
Return a cart that isn’t yours
The extra thirty seconds is the whole act. No speech needed.
Let someone merge
Including the speech you were about to give in your head.
Send one specific, no-ask text
A remembered detail. Not “we should catch up sometime.”
Hold the door and keep walking
Don’t wait for thanks. Don’t make it a production.
Tip more on a slow weekday
Tuesday afternoon is when the work is the same and the room is empty.
Learn one name
A neighbor, a barista, the person at the front desk. Use it once.
Bring the bins in
Yours, or the neighbor’s if you know they could use the help.
Don’t correct someone in public
If it can wait, let it wait. Being right is not a kindness.
Read the method: How to be kind without making a project of it.