Some people make resolutions to exercise more or eat better. Others like to give up a bad habit or decide to learn something new. Often times the resolve to change lasts only a few days or weeks, and sometimes it is hard to keep on top of goals.
One goal you might want to consider is to do a small act of kindness each day. This goal is an easy one to keep and makes you feel great AND has the added bonus of helping someone else out, too. Your daily good deed doesn’t need to be big, and it doesn’t need to take a lot of time, either. Just go out of your way to do something you wouldn’t normally do to help someone else. You can listen to the wonderful hymn “Have I Done Any Good In the World Today?” for inspiration:
1. Have I done any good in the world today?
Have I helped anyone in need?
Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?
If not, I have failed indeed.
Has anyone’s burden been lighter today
Because I was willing to share?
Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way?
When they needed my help was I there?
[Chorus]
Then wake up and do something more
Than dream of your mansion above.
Doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure,
A blessing of duty and love.
2. There are chances for work all around just now,
Opportunities right in our way.
Do not let them pass by, saying, “Sometime I’ll try,”
But go and do something today.
’Tis noble of man to work and to give;
Love’s labor has merit alone.
Only he who does something helps others to live.
To God each good work will be known.
