One of my favorite holiday traditions is to Venmo $10 to 10 or so friends and include the following type of message:
“Take this and commit a random act of holiday kindness. Buy someone a coffee or pay for the person behind you in line (or pay it forward to another Venmo friend)… ‘Tis going to be a stressful week for many. Let’s make it a little better for a few.”
What I love about it so much isn’t just the random acts of kindness that get committed from the $10.
…It’s the amount of time each person spends thinking about how they’re going to commit their random act of kindness.
When this idea first made its way to me, the storyteller said her son was given $5 and a very similar message to what I typed above… and he spent 6 months thinking about how he wanted to make the world a little better with that $5.
…Talk about ROI.