December 7th to 18th Challenge

With all that has been happening around here, the daily challenges have not been getting posted, BUT...there is a solution. Yes, My Friends, we can all catch up very quickly.

A friend shared this article, and it offers some great suggestions for kind deeds. LKN RAKs' challenge to you is to do as many of them today and tomorrow as possible. Then come back here and comment below to share how it went and how it affected those involved.

I am having trouble attaching images or links, but that will not deter us from our mission! Simply read the article at http://www.becomingminimalist.com/spread-cheer/

I am excited to read your comments about what you did!

LKN RAKs Give Back Update

Lake Norman RAKs invites you-  Nay.  LKN RAKS challenges you to join us for a day of random acts of kindness!  As you prepare for Christmas, or as you are celebrating Hanukkah, you are encouraged to take some moments to give back to your community by "doing kindness" for others.  Your acts can be random or deliberate.  You can plan ahead for ways that you can show kindness to others,  or you can look for opportunities throughout your day.  You can even do both!

Now here is the BIG challenge.  The more people who join us for this event, the easier it will be to succeed.  Our mission, should you choose to be a part of it, is to perform 1,000 Acts of Kindness on December 21st, 2014. 

Are you in?  100 people would make it an average of ten RAKs per person.  200 people would lower the average to five RAKs per person.  500 people would give us an average of only two random acts of kindness per person.  Invite your friends, and let us make this thing happen all over Lake Norman...or wherever you are!

#lknraks

#rakgiveback

#1000rakson1221

Join us at https://www.facebook.com/events/362548340572903/ and invite everyone that you can to also join us!

December 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Challenge

It has been a super busy week, but I did not forget about all of you!  Your challenge now is to do FOUR random acts of kindness of your choice, and then come back here and comment to tell us about them.  When we have at least ten people comment below this blog post this weekend, then we will give away another great gift from another generous business.  Are you excited to see what it is?  Happy RAKing, and remember to comment below!

Here We Go Again

As we are working to spread the word about the LKN RAK Give Back, a certain gift was promised to one of the folks who is already signed up for the event on December 21st.  What will the gift be, though?

Gifted By

Marsha Sparks

Yarn Doodles

www.fb.com/YarnDoodlesWV

For the person who will be blessed with this handmade act of kindness, you will have your choice of a few colors.  For those of you will did not get chosen this time, please check out and "Like" Yarn Doodles' Facebook page, anyway, as you may find the right gift for someone on your list...or for yourself!

...and the winner is....

Thank you bunches to Marsha of Yarn Doodles, and keep "doing" kindness!

December 2nd Challenge

Last night I went to play bingo for the fun of it.  There were not many of us playing -- six, to be exact -- and it seemed that the same three people kept winning everything!  

There was a child there who was a good sport but bummed because he kept just missing the win.  I did, too.  LOL.  Finally, we got to a prize that interested the boy.  I told him that if I won, I would give it to him.  Of course, I had not won anything until that point, so I told him that his chances were probably not great.  We all laughed.  

We played bingo.  The tension mounted, as several of us were oh-so-close.  Then it happened.  I actually won.  Haha.  As was my word, I gave the prize to the boy, and he was pleased.  (RAK #1)

Hey!  Maybe my "luck" was changing, and I would win the next prize!  The numbers started to be called.

Yeaaah...no.  I did not win.  However, the child's mother won.  I suppose that she was going to let him have the prize because he walked over to my table and gave me back the prize that I had given him.  What a kind gesture.  (RAK #2)

My challenge for you today, which you can do tomorrow if you cannot find the opportunity tonight, is to perform an act of kindness where you have to give up something.  Then comment on this blog post and tell us about it!

December 1st Challenge

My family and I met a friend at the theatre and to see a movie this past weekend.  We were going straight from somewhere else and got to the theatre early, so we bought tickets for all of us so that we would not have to wait on line when it was time for the movie.  (RAK #1)

We told our friend that we had gotten the tickets, yet she did not understand that we had gotten her ticket, too, so she bought her own ticket.  When we figured out what had happened, our friend said that she could return the ticket that she bought.  Then she reconsidered and decided to give it to someone else.  She stood outside and waited for someone to arrive at the line who was going to see the same movie and gave them her ticket.  (RAK #2)

When we went into the theatre, AmStar 14 Cinema in Mooresville had some fun games set up in the lobby for children to play and even had prizes and giveaways for the children to take home.  They were not trying to sell anything.  This was simply something kind that they were doing for the children.  (RAK #3)

Sometimes you have the opportunity to give and receive random kindness without putting much thought into it or without even realizing it.  Neat, right?

Your challenge today is to see an opportunity to perform a spur of the moment act of kindness and then come back here and leave a comment to tell us all what it was.  Maybe your experiences will give ideas to others!