TUT 30 Day Challenge and Water Challenge - Day 13

Random act of kindness is my challenge for today. To be more specific, my task is to write a list of acts of kindness I will be performing.
Within this year I will:
- Bake something for someone just for fun.
- Pick up litter.
- Encourage people whenever I naturally feel they need to hear something positive. Don't hold back (like you'd normally do).
- Give money to a street musician for once.
- Don't hesitate to give up unused possession when you feel someone would benefit from it.
- Make a present for someone just because.
- Offer to babysit friends' children consistently. Remind yourself parents of toddlers especially need a break more than they dare to admit.
- Make breakfast in bed for a family member just because.
- Send a package to a friend abroad as a surprise.
- Leave a kind note between a library book.
- Leave positive feedback on websites I enjoy.
- Treat myself to a good book when I see one.

There are 12 acts, one for each month of the year. I can choose to do once a month, or leave them all for December and stress the F out. Most of all I will aim to look for opportunities to cross things off whenever they feel natural to happen. I put these out in the Universe and now I'm simply waiting for the opportunities to present themselves.

My husband bought this garden gnome for my parents last summer. I packed it in my suitcase, because he asked me to, and I took it to my parents' yard in Finland, because he thought it would be fun to just put it on their yard as a surprise. This is his random act of kindness, because he genuinely wants to surprise people with the weirdest things sometimes.


Water Challenge

Done. Still didn't make up for yesterday's -0,5 liters though. I'm a bit disappointed I let it slip yesterday, because I'm mostly curious about the long term benefits of this challenge. At this point can't go back, but just keep on going.

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