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40 Random Acts of Kindness, #5-10

July 9, 2012 4 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

Last month I kicked off a new project: 40 Random Acts of Kindness. In my kickoff post I explained how I committed to complete 2 random acts of kindness, every single week, up until my 40th birthday in October. Thank you to everyone who commented or emailed me encouraging words of support. Seriously, thank you. [...]

40 Random Acts of Kindness, #1-4

June 19, 2012 0 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

It’s been 2 weeks since I launched my 40th birthday project, and yes I did commit to sharing all 40 random acts of kindness as I complete them. My birthday plan requires me to commit 2 random acts of kindness from now until October. This should be very achievable. The good news: after only 2 [...]

40 Random Acts of Kindness (40 x 40)

June 6, 2012 13 comments READ THE FULL ARTICLE >

When I was a child my parents decided I should pretty much skip kindergarden. I’m not sure why, but for some reason I jumped ahead in school and was always the youngest person in all my classes. Why is this relevant today? Because today I have around 120 Facebook friends from high school who have [...]

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