Join me for an “Election Edition” of the 30-Day Kindness Challenge

Whether you are a politics junkie (guilty!), or someone who wishes you could avoid this election season entirely, I think we can all agree that it’s time for a kindness reset in our country. If you are weary from political hostility and want to “do something” to change the tone, our ministry has developed a tool that can help you actively be part of the solution.

The need—and a solution

Our politically toxic culture needs a dose of kindness. We can hardly watch TV, scroll social media, or even talk to friends, family, or work colleagues without a pervasive sense of negativity hanging over us. Maybe we’re even contributing to it, and we sense that pulling us away from who God has called us to be.

Or maybe we are contributing to it and we don’t even realize it.

Since 2017, the 30-Day Kindness Challenge has provided a practical, proven way to both spread kindness and examine our own words and actions. And now, we’ve adapted that original challenge into a special “Election Edition” of the 30-Day Kindness Challenge.

We’re calling it Kindness 2024. I’m inviting you to take this Challenge with me, and to help me get the word out.

Change starts with us

Those who follow this blog will be familiar with my book, The Kindness Challenge. Many of you have also taken the original 30-Day Kindness Challenge—an empirically-tested method of improving any relationship. Among those who do three simple things daily for thirty days, 89% of relationships improved—largely because of one dramatic, eye-opening recognition among most participants: Oh wow, I had no idea I was being unkind every day.

The original Challenge primarily works not because it changes the tone and temperature of our relationship (although that is a part of it), but because it changes us. This makes it a helpful tool for today’s culture. Each of us could benefit from a bootcamp to “see” the ways we are contributing to the problem and become part of the solution instead.

Here’s how Kindness 2024 works:

For those you disagree with politically, do these three things every day for thirty days:

1. Say nothing personally negative, in word or tone, about anyone you disagree with—either to them or about them to someone else.

Stating disagreement is fine. Being derisive—in public or private—is not.

• Every day, find one positive thing that you can sincerely praise or affirm about someone you disagree with, and tell them, and tell someone else.

See the very real positives in someone, even if you strongly disagree with their beliefs. Your neighbor may have yard signs for the other candidate, but you can notice and comment (to them and someone else) that they are such a patient parent, or so kind to your kids.

• Every day, do a small act of kindness or generosity for someone you disagree with.

Serve someone in kindness—whether that means sincerely listening for an extra 10 minutes to the views of your difficult family member, or bringing coffee to your outspoken coworker.

Just as with the original version, we have created 30 days of FREE reminder emails and coaching to help you along the way. So head on over to the Kindness 2024 site we designed just for this special edition and sign up today.

Even better, be part of a movement. Invite your neighborhood group, Sunday school class, work department, church, or school to take this Challenge together.

And if you really want to help multiply the impact, forward this blog to any pastor, leader, or radio or podcast host who might like to invite their broader audience to take the Challenge.

We all want things to change. So sign up for Kindness 2024 today. Let’s watch just how well intentional kindness changes the political temperature around us – as well as how it changes us.

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