My five actions for good in March

Written by lee, 2 comments

Inspired by a blog I stumbled across this morning and a bit of resulting Twitter chat I’ve made a list of five actions to take in March.

There’s nothing revolutionary here, in fact there are things that many of you have done or maybe undertake regularly.  The beauty of the blog “A year of giving without spending“ was the simple, easy actions that we take

With a bit of conscious effort we can easily slip a couple of good deeds into our daily life.

So without any further ado here is my list of five for March:

1. Take part in Earth Hour – pledge  to switch off for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday 28 March.

2.  As much as it hurts me to face it, Autumn is approaching and it will be time to start moving those summer clothes to the back of the wardrobe and the woollies closer to the front!  Take advantage of the shuffle required to have a sort out and find decide how best to dispose of clothing and footwear no longer needed.  Claire from Donate NZ has a helpful blog post on the options available.

3. Ok, confession time.  I have never donated blood! What makes this even worse is that it is not due to extreme fear or needles or feeling faint at the sight of blood.  Having been jabbed innumerable times with vaccinations required for travel and growing up on a farm I’m pretty sweet with both.  I think it is more of ‘must do that one day’ kind of thing. So I’ve checked out the schedule and it is firmly in my diary to give blood on Thursday 4 March.  Find a donation point (New Zealand only) in your area and you could save up to three lives!

4.  Spread the word about a cause you are passionate about. You don’t need to donate money or loads of time to lend a hand to a good cause.  Use your social networks to share a cause you are passionate about.  Write a short blog post and add a donation widget, connect with a cause you care about on Facebook and become a fan, Tweet a link to a charities website or story.

5.  Undertake a random act of kindness! Pop some coins in an almost expired parking meter, donate a food package to your local foodbank or pet food for your local animal shelter.

Pretty simple stuff but imagine the impact if we all undertook to do five small actions every month.

Update! As I wrote this post Emma, from Ideas Shop, volunteered herself and the team to be tagged to blog their five actions for good.  Connect with Emma and the Ideas Shop team on Twitter.

How about you? What are your ideas for small actions for good?

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