High Leverage Kindness: low effort and big impact things you can do to make someone’s day

A friend of mine was moving to a new city and my best friend Chloe jumped at the opportunity to help him move.

“I LOVE helping people move.”

I thought this was such a strange thing to be so passionate about. When I asked Chloe why she was so weird, she shared how impactful it was when a friend helped her on moving day.

An extra pair of hands on a generally stressful day can make a huge difference.

This is why Chloe has helped over a dozen friends move out or move into their new place. She calls this just one of her many acts of high leverage kindness.

She never gave me a formal definition but from what I gathered, an act of high leverage kindness is a relatively low effort and big impact thing you can do to really make someone’s day.

While I personally don’t believe there is any “shortcut” to building relationships, I do believe that you can definitely be strategic. If the by-product is spreading kindness to others… then sign me up.

Since that conversation, I’ve also helped many of my friends move and feel very proud to do so.

If you feel inspired to do some kind of acts of high leverage kindness, I’ve made a small…