Compressed acts of kindness makes you happier

open doorRandom acts of kindness make the person performing the kind act happier when they’re grouped together within a shorter time period.

Experimental psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky found in her happiness research that doing something for other people five times in one single day makes you happier than if you spread out those five acts over a whole week.

So, when you hold a door open for someone, help an elderly over the street, give a lost tourist directions, hand the contents of your lunch box to a vagrant, or any other kind act, do it all within a short period, rather than spread it out over time.

Lyubomirsky found that because we perform acts of kindness naturally, it seems to please us more when we’re more conscious of it.

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As business improver and entrepreneurial coach Christoff inspires his clients to do more of what they are great at and enjoy doing. He serves on the consultant/mentor panels of institutions like the Industrial Development Corporation. He has been supporting entrepreneurs since the mid 90s, when he launched (and 10 years later sold) the largest publication for business owners in Africa.

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