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THE 30 DAY KINDNESS CHALLENGE PROJECT
One day at a time for 30 days
This project offers a great opportunity for people of all ages to shift their awareness from self to others. You're never too old to practice kindness as a way of life. This project works very well with young people and is easy to implement, at home with parents and siblings, in classrooms, at youth organizations and clubs, and in many other group settings.
Each day that you perform an act of kindness, your standards of morality and work ethic are raised. A good example of this is when you are overwhelmed with the idea of cleaning and organizing your desk drawers. You can easily start with only one drawer. After successfully completing the task, It might drive you nuts to leave the other drawers in disarray, and you are compelled and driven to deal with the other drawers. Before you know it, you're painting your room and changing the posters and rug. Your awareness of orderliness and tidiness is more acute and your standards are elevated, just from cleaning and organizing only one drawer.
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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THIS CHALLENGE
- All humans living today are descendants of one woman.
- People have spread out around our planet and have diversified in shape, color, and size.
- Our world is graced by the amazing diversity of nature.
- Humans have created complex societies.
- People have become disconnected from others and focus their attention on themselves.
- Most people have forgotten that we are all relatives of the same original mother.
- Respect for all points of view is essential for peace and the survival of our species.
- Intolerance is a human behavior that can lead to hate for others.
- Some people gang up against others who appear different from them.
- Hate can spread through the body of society, like cancer.
- When cancer spreads to body organs, it is like hate spreading to the government.
- Both can ultimately lead to death and the destruction of innocent life.
- Doctors and social activists realize that both cancer and hate may never go away completely.
- There are two fundamental approaches to dealing with this dilemma.
- We fight hate with vigorous legal actions and social justice legislation.
- And we can also fill humanity with kindness and leave no room for hate.
- The 30 Day Kindness Challenge places the emphasis on prevention.
- Building immunity to hate requires education, action, and enlightenment.
- To accomplish this, we must shift our awareness from ourselves to others.
- When we think of the needs of others and respond kindly, we become more compassionate.
- When we grow into compassion, kindness becomes second nature.
- People are impressionable and imitate other people’s behaviors.
- When we influence others to act compassionately, we can create a culture of kindness.
- Today’s youth will inherit a dysfunctional and self-centered society.
- The challenge of our youth is to shift the direction of society from intolerance to compassion with selfless acts of kindness.
- Every day, for 30 days, each of the kind acts will raise the standards of morality and work ethic.
- By day 30, it is possible that performing ten or more acts of kindness unconsciously will become part of a person's daily habits.
- The 30 Day Kindness Challenge approaches the darkness of intolerance with light.
- When lighting another candle in the room, a person loses nothing and the room becomes brighter.
- Humanity's hope for its future is in our youth.
- They are the agents of change for a better world.
- Their value to others in demonstrating courage, wisdom, and inclusion will allow them to rise to the top.
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A POSITIVE APPROACH
When you tell a child not to push a button, their mind creates a mental image of a finger pushing a button. The image excludes the 'do not' portion of the demand. The mind activates the brain to send messages to the appropriate muscles which will fire off and take action on the desired mental image. Another approach with the child would be to redirect their attention to something else and give positive instruction, such as 'Let's take your shoes off and put them in the closet.' This is the approach we are taking in this challenge, by shifting attention and awareness from self to others, from dark to light, and from hate to love.
Things to keep in mind
- Are your daily acts of kindness within your comfort zone, or are they out of the box and new to you?
- Are your daily acts of kindness outside your circle of friends and family?
Who can do The 30 Day Kindness Challenge?
- Parents and their kids
- Teachers and their students
- Organizations and religious groups
Original Mother
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. Learn more.
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EVEN AI CONCURS
Respect and kindness should be extended to individuals who hold different beliefs, and differences in beliefs should not be used as a justification for discrimination or hostility toward others. Rather, we should strive to promote understanding, empathy, and compassion, and to build bridges of respect and cooperation across our differences.