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Kind things you can do in five minutes

Nobody needs a free afternoon to be kind. These take about as long as waiting for a kettle, and most of them happen in the gaps of a day you were having anyway. If you have been meaning to do something and keep not getting to it, start here.

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• Send a specific memory, not a check-in

  "Thinking of you" asks for a reply. A memory just hands someone something.

  5 minutesFreeA friend

• Tell someone's manager they were good

  Complaints reach managers constantly. Praise almost never does — which is exactly why it carries weight when it arrives.

  5 minutesFreeA stranger

• Be the one who says the obvious thing

  In most rooms somebody is being talked over and everyone can see it. Saying so out loud costs you one sentence and changes the room.

  5 minutesFreeA friend