Day 14 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition was a bit complicated. The idea was to send a care package to a soldier overseas. I looked at a few options on-line, but decided to talk to a few military friends of mine to see what the REAL needs were. Both had great ideas, and one is helping me in a way I didn’t expect.

This is more than just about the #31DaysofKindness…this is a true “Thank You” to our military…something that’s not said or acted upon often enough.

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Today is a two-fer for Days 12 & 13 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition. Why a tow-fer? Because I got home too late last night to post!

So, what did I do over the past two days? Well, both days involved helping people in different ways. How? Read on!

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Day 11 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition, REALLY got away from me. I was swamped from early in the morning to late in the afternoon, well after the banks closed. Why are the banks important? Well, today’s act was to place a $2 bill (yes, they still make those) in someplace for someone random to find it.

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Day 10 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition, caught me on an odd day. I started a new job today, so I did not have the time to get out and buy someone a meal. But, that doesn’t mean that you, oh faithful reader, can’t get a free snack from me (or at least part of one)!

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Day 9 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition, and this is a tough one - apologize to someone.

For me, apologizing has never been easy. What makes it more difficult is when it’s an apology to someone I truly admire and respect. Yet, I sucked it up, fired up the old fingers, and wrote a brief, but full-of-meaning (to me, at least) apology to someone I felt I had wronged.

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Today is Day 8 of the #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition, and I’m going to give something to one random reader of this blog post…a copy of one of my favorite books:

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

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Day 7 of #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition, allowed me to pick an act of kindness of my choice. With so many things to do (and so much time to do them today), what did I choose?

I jumped ahead in the game a bit today, but it was well-deserved.

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A short update for Day 6 of #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition!

Pick up something that has fallen down

Sounds easy enough…plenty of stuff falls during the day, right? Didn’t seem like it for me, today, until…

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Welcome to Day 5 of #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition!

Give a hug to someone who deserves it. Easier said than done, right? My family gets hugs all the time, and they are well deserved. Now was the day to step outside of that circle to share. Who did I hug? Well, it wasn’t physical (more of a virtual check-in by phone-call), but it was a recently-made friend who’s been going through some rather rough stuff.

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Welcome to Day 4 of #31DaysOfKindness, 2015 edition!

While the theme for today is to share an article with someone, I’m going to take inspiration from Ryan Avery and share ALL the articles from one of my favorite blogs with you - The Big Guy Blog on Runner’s World as written by Ted Spiker.

Why the entire blog and all of its articles? Read on and find out…

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