Good News Tuesday: Do One Nice Thing

There is so much negative news out there ("if it bleeds, it leads"), some of us have chosen to stop reading/watching the news entirely.I'd like to help change that.Every Tuesday I will highlight an article I find that focuses on GOOD news. This column is called Good News Tuesday.Spread the word.This week's entry comes from Debbie Tenzer via Happy News.

Debbie’s book, Do One Nice Thing

Little Things You Can Do to Make the World a Lot NicerA few years ago, Debbie Tenzer was feeling overwhelmed by all the crises in the news. But rather than give in to despair, she thought, Maybe I can’t solve our big problems, but I know I can do something.She realized that helping doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive or time-consuming.

You can help simply by doing one nice thing. So that’s what she vowed to do, one day a week. Not every day – she says she’s not that nice – but once a week was a promise she could keep.

So she started a website, DoOneNiceThing.com, and each week she posted an easy way to help people around town or across the globe. Good news traveled fast, and now Debbie is the leader of a worldwide kindness movement with fellow Nice-o-holics in more than ninety countries.

Working together, Do One Nice Thing members’ accomplishments have included:

Mailing more than 100 tons of school supplies to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, who give them to local children so they can study

• Sending countless books to schools, libraries, and hospitals

• Contributing numerous gifts for foster children, whose birthdays are often forgotten

• Donating tens of thousands of packages of pasta, cans of food, and other food items to food banks

Debbie’s book, Do One Nice Thing, has over 100 new, easy ideas for small deeds that anyone can do (and includes explicit information on how exactly to execute the ideas). There’s even a chapter of nice things you can do in minutes without leaving your desk.

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So tell me, have you done one nice thing today? Share with us and inspire with your comments.