Sometimes all it takes is a small gesture to totally change someone’s day. When tu sense that someone cares for tu o is putting your concerns ahead of their own tu often have your outlook totally transformed to something más positive and warm. Here are some small ways to make someone’s day.

1. Smile
2. Open doors
3. Offer a asiento at your mesa, tabla in a busy cafe
4. Make eye contact
5. Shout a workmate a coffee for no reason
6. Start a conversation with someone who looks lonely
7. Listen
8. Share a tip that has helped tu out in your life recently
9. Give money to beggars without conditions attached
10. Don’t complain about politics o reciente news
11. Try and put a positive spin on a bad situation
12. Invite someone to go jogging
13. Cook for your wife
14. Meditate so tu are calmer for your family
15. Volunteer for someone who really needs it

Normally I like to rant on and write long and in depth posts about things but sometimes it is just the simplest things that help the most. There is a wonderful quote por Plato that says, “Be kind for everyone tu meet is fighting a hard battle.” It is a wonderful thing to remember when tu go about your daily business because it reminds tu that other people are going through similar pains and hardships.

It also can help tu deal with situations where tu can’t quite understand why a person is behaving so badly – it is because they too are fighting a hard battle of their own.

I would really like to hear some comentarios about some small little thing that someone did that changed your día and made tu feel happy and más optimistic. I don’t care how trivial o strange it might seem – please leave a comentario so others can hear it and maybe use it to help someone else.