20 Practical Ways You Can Start Serving Others, Right Now

There’s no better way to find fulfillment in life, than serving others.

 

Plus, when you do good for others, the recipients of your kindness aren’t the only ones reaping the benefits. You too will reap the rewards of your service to others through boosted mood and an overwhelming feeling of connection to others.

 

Here are 20 ways you can start serving others, today!

 

1. Spend five hours per week volunteering at your church.
2. Go through your closets and donate old books and clothes.
3. Volunteer at your local pregnancy care center.
4. Buy someone lunch.
5. Be a mentor. Find someone who needs someone who needs direction and could use your help.
6. Teach Sunday school.
7. Bring a meal to someone who is sick or hurting.
8. Write an encouraging note for a friend.
9. Support a ministry financially.
10. Promote someone else’s ideas. Whenever possible, champion others.
11. Send an anonymous donation to someone you know who is struggling financially.
12. Plant a garden. Share your produce with an elderly couple in your area.
13. Send a care package to deployed soldiers.
14. Adopt a grandma or grandpa at your local nursing home and visit regularly.
15. Give compliments generously.
16. Send flowers.
17. Write encouraging notes on all of your friends’ Facebook walls.
18. Make and deliver chemo care packages.
19. Who do you know that’s lonely? Call them up and make plans.
20. Leave a quarter in a vending machine or parking meter for someone else to use.