Do something Nice

It’s National Do Something Nice Day!  Every Oct. 5, we get the chance to focus on being nice and today is the day to do it.  So go ahead, be nice!

What is National Do Something Nice Day

There’s a day for everything these days and this is one of my faves!  It happens every year on October 5th and this year it falls on a Wednesday.

Do Something Nice Day is a great day because we get to focus on someone else – other than ourselves.   Life is so busy and we get so caught up in our own lives that sometimes we look back and think we could have been nicer to someone.  You may not mean to do those things but we get frazzled and forget to be kind.

What I love about this day is that it’s a great reminder to stop and think about others.  You get to be kind.  No selfishness today.  That’s great in my opinion.   On top of it all, after you’ve done your act of kindness, you feel amazing.  You also wonder why you don’t do it more often.  The benefit is that each time you do it, you want to do more of it.

The cumulative effect

Just one small act of kindness can have a cumulative effect.  Think about it.  When you look back at a time that you did something nice, didn’t you want to do it again?  Selfishly, it made you feel good.  You didn’t feel bad about being kind and making someone feel good.  No, you felt amazing so you wanted to do it again!  So, that’s one effect:

The more you do it, the more you’ll want to do it.

Others are:

• Less stress
• More energy
• Make the world better

When we have that feel good feeling, we aren’t stressed.  For a moment, we feel great and that stress level that is generally quite high is low for a few moments.  That gives us more energy.  Less stress, more energy will make a world we all want to live in.  That also means that our skin will look better for it.  So, go ahead, do something nice on National Do Something Nice Day!  You’ll feel great!

Tell us what you plan to do on National Do Something Nice Day!  We’d love to hear from you!