35 little ways to share with the world

Ava, my daughter, standing at her Lemonade Stand for National Lemonade Day! She made $20 selling lemonade and bracelets!

Leo, with Zenhabits, wrote a thought-provoking post about 34 (I added one) little things to share with the world to help build each other up instead of tearing each other down. To teach our kids that it's not all about competing for profits, positions in a corporation, status symbols or space. To help each other build communities, beautiful public spaces, stop thinking about private property and how we can build fences, and start thinking about ways to use common resources to reduce wastefulness and to start tearing down those fences. 

Below are 34 little ways to share that Leo highlighted. I added #1 - to support any lemonade stand you see! Even if you don't like lemonade, I promise your simple act of stopping will make a kid's day and play a role in nurturing kids creativity and entrepreneurial spirit! And I guarantee you will walk away inspired too!

35 little ways to share with the world!

1. Support your neighborhood lemonade stands!
2. Help an entrepreneur with a Kiva donation.
3. Volunteer your services with a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or other charity organization.
4. Donate money, food, or others goods to charity.
5. Bake cookies or brownies and share with a neighbor.
6. Put your favorite recipes on a blog and share with the world.
7. Volunteer your expertise (whatever it is) to the world, and give those services to anyone who needs them.
8. Give step-by-step instructions for doing something valuable you know how to do, online, for all to read.
9. Give your books away to friends or charities.
10. Start a community garden in your neighborhood, or contribute to an existing one.
11. Start a CSA, or become a member of one that exists.
12. Become a member of Freecycle, and participate.
13. Join or form, and participate in a cooperative (food, bikes, books, housing, more).
14. Give people a ride in your car. Carpool.
15. Let strangers use your car when you don’t need it.
16. Hold potlucks every week, rotating among friends/family.
17. Look into co-housing.
18. If you own copyrighted work, uncopyright it.
19. Perform random acts of kindness.
20. When someone wants to repay you for something, ask them to pay it forward instead.
21. Contribute code to Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS).
22. Donate money to a small programmer who has created FOSS, or buy shareware.
23. Clean up a park near you.
24. Sign up, participate, and contribute to bike sharing, car sharing, and other sharing organizations.
25. Help transform streets back into public spaces meant to be shared by everyone. (more)
26. If you’re in southern California, check out Neighborgoods.
27. Borrow and lend things in your neighborhood by using Share Some Sugar.
28. Barter via Craigslist. Or try u-exchange, trashbank, care to trade, trade a favor, or joe barter.
29. Share your tips with others online or through a free ebook.
30. Create great software and give it to the world for free.
31. Smile. Be compassionate in all human transactions.
32. Invest in a friend who wants to start her own business. Don’t ask for the money back for at least a few years.
33. Make things, and give them to people.
34. Read to the blind, help the elderly, assist those with disabilities.
35. Start or contribute to a tool-lending library in your neighborhood.

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Comments

[Megan Zuniga]

Let strangers use your car when you don’t need it.--uh, this is called carnapping.
But kidding aside, this list looks great. Random acts of kindness are the best on this list because you'll never know if you just made someone's day. Sharing or giving away a piece of yourself not only makes someone's day, but also gives you the warm fuzzy feeling inside. Also, volunteering for charity organizations makes you realize how lucky you are in life. Also, it's good for the Karma.
For those who don't understand why sharing is fun, please read this to know the power of giving!

[Susan Liddy]

Gosh, this brought me "back".
I remember doing lemonade stands when I was a kid.
Amazing how much fun it was to make 25 cents a pop!
We have some kids int he neighborhood who have lemonade stands in the summer.
They charge a dollar... but everyone has to account for inflation, right?!

:) Susan

[Misty Gibbs]

@megan: I'm all about karma!! I agree with you about letting strangers use a car. A friend - sure. A complete stranger...not sure on this one!
@susan: ava charged $0.50 but most people gave $1.00 since they had paid $1.00 elsewhere. Selling bracelets helped too! I love getting out there with her. Plus I hand out MIL cards to the ladies! hehe! Hugs! MIsty

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