how to be a more charming individual

• buy a coffee for the person behind you in line
• leave a copy of your favorite book on the train/bus
• make a mix tape/cd and leave it on a park bench 
• send photographs to your friends and family
• give balloons to strangers
• bake cookies for your friends when they’re stressed/missing home
• tell an old friend why she means the world to you
• write more letters, more poems, more haikus
• give your writing to people you love
• tape a coupon to a product in the grocery store
• pay for a stranger’s meal
• hang a bird feeder in your backyard
• keep a savings jar and make weekly donations to your favorite charity
• add money to an expired meter
• call an old friend on the phone and talk for longer than 10 minutes
• visit an art museum on a saturday
• do things that the people you care about want to do