Some of the coolest items you could have on a bucket list and set yourself as various life goals revolves around “good deeds”. By good deeds I mean things such as doing good to others, helping others and generally make a positive impact on someone’s life in some form and shape. I think we all agree that good deeds are awesome, and that it generally feels good to do so.
Yet, as with other goals and things we know are good, it’s so easy to forget about it as life goes by. We all want to be good human beings, but we got a vast amount of things to deal with on a daily basis and it’s not always easy to do specific good acts without any proactive planning or mindset. Therefore, by writing your good deeds goals down and plan them briefly, you’re destined to do them!
Before we start, keep in mind that these “to-do”s should not necessarily be grandiouse things and acts. Even the smallest things can make a big difference to someone else. So, nuff talkin’. Let’s get to them.. Here’s a good deed bucket list for you.
Got other suggestions? If you do, add those in the comment field below and I’ll be sure to add them.
- Pay for a random person’s groceries (e.g. the person behind you in line at the super market)
- Volunteer for a social organisation in your local community or abroad
- Visit and help at a hospice
- Feed a homeless person
- Order and pay for a pizza and send it to friends without them knowing and without taking credit for it
- Volunteer at an annual event
- Donate blood
- Be an organ donor
- Give away a day salary 5 times in a week to a random poor person or organisation
- In a bridge toll, pay for the car behind me
- Serve food at a soup kitchen
- Win a live charity auction (on something!)
- Put an anonymous blank envelope containing $100 into the mailbox of a family/person I know to be struggling
- Get in touch with old teachers/role models from the past and tell them just how much their positive influence meant to me
- Bring candy and stuff to do to hospitalised children (and entertain)
- Donate my old electronics to schools or nonprofit organisations that support lower-income families who need working equipment
- Put up post it notes like: “you are beautiful” etc. on public toilet mirrors
- When in full-time job, donate x% of my income monthly/annually to a charity
- Start micro-volunteering (e.g., http://helpfromhome.org/ or Sparked)
- Leave encouraging notes in self-help books (or any other books) for others to find
- Anonymously grant a wish on someone’s Amazon wishlist
- Cut coupons and leave them by the appropriate items in a grocery store for others to use
- Anonymously send someone flowers
- X amount of donations in a year
- Tell someone you love everything you love about them.
- Make a list of 101 things you love about your mum, dad, brother and girlfriend.
- Create a SocialVibe account and earn money for nonprofits by looking at ads (or something similar)
- Raise at least $10k for a charity
- Stop using words like “retarded”, and ____ as insults
- Bring your old magazines to a hospital waiting room to make patients’ waits a little less nerve racking.
- Participate in a Relay for Life event
- Join a bone marrow registry
- Lend money on Kiva (microloans)
- Make a list of the things you are grateful for or the things that you love
- Donate books to the library
- Pay for the person behind me in a drive-through
- Forward junk mail to raise money for the “Lunch Box” or something similar
- Donate a laptop to a student who needs one
- Be a “genie” and grant 3 wishes for nonprofits. Many have “wish lists” of items they are currently looking for.
- Participate in Earth Hour
- Write a thank you letter to a company that treated you well
- Build a house with habitat for humanity
- Donate grains of rice (to help towards world hunger)
- Donate clothing
- Entertain the elderly at a nursing home
- Help an endangered animal
- Help someone with their bucket list
- Sponsor a child’s wish through the “Make-a-wish Foundation”
- Write a letter to your future self and open it after 10 years +
- Invite a homeless person for a restaurant dinner
- Teach English in a foreign country
- Plant a community garden
- Join a disaster relief effort
- Start a charity
- Include a charitable foundation in your will
- Help a homeless person get a fresh start
- Perform a random act of kindness every day, for a year
- Teach an elementary class
- Take kids to a shopping spree
- Host a charity event that raises $10,000+
- Host a couchsurfer
- Host a foreign exchange student
- Host a homeless
- Leave flowers (or cookies?) on a stranger’s doorstep
- Make a large anonymous donation to a non-profit
- Make a stranger’s day
- Make someone laugh during their chemotherapy treatment
- Pay for someone else’s flight ticket so they can come and visit
- Pay for someone’s expired meter
- Pay off a stranger’s Christmas lay-away gifts for their children
- Perform a kind deed to at least 10 people with no expectations
- Sponsor a child
- Talk to a homeless person about their life
- Text a random mobile number and wish them a good day
- Send mum a dozen roses for no reason
- Send my parents on vacation
- Carve my family’s names into a tree
- Carve my love and my name into a tree
- Do a cute scavenger hunt for the one I love
- Give a toy to every child in a hospital
- Give “free hugs” in a public place
6 Ways Being Nice To Others Is Actually Good For You | Huffington Post
Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind | Berkeley
That’s the current list of great deeds you may do to shine some light to others (and it makes you feel great as well!). If you don’t have a bucket list, then be sure to read my bucket list guide to get started. And if you’re list is already packed with good deeds, then perhaps have a look at 10 Key Topics you Need to Have on Your Bucket List.
I hope you liked this good deeds bucket list. Many of these were inspired by my 1000+ bucket list, and the free 5000+ bucket list ebook. Did I miss any other good deeds? Do let me know.
Comploment 10 different strangers in one day 🙂