MAKING A DIFFERENCE DOESN'T HAVE TO COST YOU MONEY. THERE ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO GIVE BACK BY SIMPLY DONATING YOUR TIME INSTEAD. WHEN IT COMES TO ANIMALS AND THE EARTH, THAT IS THE LEAST WE COULD DO TO GIVE BACK. CHANGE ISN'T POSSIBLE WITH OUT TIME OR COMMITMENT, THAT CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU.

This is probably the easiest way to give back socially and spread love and kindness. Tell that person how you feel. From the smallest things like hair, clothes, or makeup to full on encouragement, tell them! You never know who could need to hear it. And even if they don't "need" it, it always feels good to receive a random compliment, especially from a stranger. It is an amazing way to not only spread kindness but potentially change people's days or in some cases even entire perspectives on a situation.

This is something that can be done all the time in many different forms. From smiling at strangers, to sending love to friends/family, to not letting your own emotions effect the way you treat others. You never know what could be going on in another person's life. This is also an encouragement to practice looking at things from different perspectives. A lot of times in life, especially when we're doing something that's a part of a daily life routine, we become so used to things being a certain way and it can be frustrating when one day it randomly doesn't work out how it's supposed to. If these encounters involve a person or even in some cases an animal, don't let the event effect the way you treat them until you have closure on their side of the story. Even if you feel like it was "their fault" in the moment, there is two sides to every story and its near impossible to analyze the full situation correctly during the incident.

Spending is not the only way to support local and small businesses! It is completely free, and highly appreciated by any small business owner, to share their business, visit their studios or shops, interact with their platforms, or tell them that you appreciate what they do or love their classes/creations/content!

Evolution is great, don't get me wrong. We have come so far that doing life activities has been made a breeze. So do yourself, your body, and the world a favor, take a step back from the desire for convenience. Whether it be you being the one to stop and help the person on the side of the road to holding the door for the person behind you, it WILL make a difference. You can do it once, or 1,000,000 times and it will still be putting good out into the world that wouldn't have been there without you.

This does not have to cost you- it can be something you already had, something you find, even a hug or a compliment. Whether you know this person needs it or not, gifts are an iconic way to show and spread love.

I know some of us can be less social than others, you may even be thinking, "well I wouldn't want a stranger conversating with me". But I say this to a certain extent. Its one thing to make awkward small talk for 5 minutes, which I think we all kind of wish we didn't have to do. Instead an opportunity to make someone's day better with a conversation. Show them kindness through words. In passing, or longer depending on the scenario. Go outside of the normal small talk topics and ask what they did today, tell them your proud of them, encourage them, compliment them, there are so many ways to use the power of words to spread positivity.

In order to spread love, you need to have love within yourself. Expressing yourself, doing what you love and want to do, will not only fill you with happiness and positivity but it will attract just that around you too. When you are happy and doing what you love, it's much easier to share that with the world.