10 Things You Can Do To Make a Difference Right Now!

1. Spend an afternoon with someone you know is lonely. You don’t have to make it just once. Lonely people are in need of friendship. Decide to drop by every week. Send them notes. Become a lifeline for just that one person.
   
   
2. Look around and find a kid who needs to know they matter – there are way too many of them. Now determine to make that kid know someone believes they are special. Send them a card or note every week (at least). If you know what they are interested in, send them articles about it. Send them stories that will build their self-confidence and inspire them to be all they can be. Let them know you CARE.
   
   
3. Take your lunch break to clean up trash. Enlist the help of other employees to do the same.
   
   
4. Send at least one email a day telling someone how much they are appreciated; thanking them for something they did for you; or telling them something you like about them.
   
   
5. Gather all your old eyeglasses and donate them to the Lions Club. If you can’t find one go onto the Internet and type "Place to donate old eyeglasses to". There are plenty. Take this a step further and go around your neighborhood to collect old eyeglasses. Enlist kids to help you and then take them somewhere fun as a reward – after you let them present all the Eyeglasses to the Lions Club! You’ll get help; they’ll learn a valuable lesson in making a difference; and everyone will get to have some fun.
   
   
6. Put a big glass jar on your counter. Have everyone in your family (even if it’s just you) use it for all their loose change. Every 6 months decide who you are going to give it to – making a family ritual out of the event.
   
   
7. Offer to baby-sit for a single Mom who is at her wit’s end.
   
   
8. Organize your neighborhood around a cause and have a Neighborhood Yard Sale. One neighborhood adopted an orphanage in Thailand and worked together to send thousands of dollars from their garage sale. In addition to the money they sent, neighbors became closer and new friends were made.
   
   
9. Want to blow someone’s mind? Every time someone is rude or mean to you, respond with kindness. One lady was treated very rudely by an attendant at her gas station. She responded by taking him a plate of cookies and telling him to have a nice day. Now he goes out of his way to be nice to her.