How To Help Others – 67 Things You Can Do For Other People

You want to help other people? Then you've come to the right place! Do you sometimes get the feeling that our society is rather selfish? Yet for many of us, doing something for others is a real basic need. Being helpful without asking for anything in return is also a really great thing, positive trait.

Finally good deeds then even automatically with happiness hormones and endorphins, because it feels incredibly good to be there for others and not just for yourself. However, so much support is needed in this world that you often don't even know where or with whom to start.

In this article, I would like to give you the necessary inspiration and valuable tips on how you can help others - every day in your everyday life, on a voluntary basis, professionally or privately in a small way. Let's go!

Advantages: Why help other people?

Helpful people often act with solidarity, fairness and courtesy. They are not selfish, arrogant, self-serving, ignorant or selfish, but are always willing to lend a helping hand and support others. Surely you can remember one or the other good deed in your everyday life remember What do you think of off the top of your head? Just pause for a moment.

You can still remember it so well because you had the feeling that you were needed - and your heartfelt deed was rewarded with positive feedback. The gratitude and smiles of other people trigger feelings of happiness in you and make you more self-confident. And that is certainly the greatest benefit you can gain from your willingness to help others.

Here I have put together a few more motifs and incentives for more helpfulness in everyday life:

67 tips & ideas: What can I do for other people in everyday life?

Motivated enough? Then I'd like to introduce you to a few things you can do to support other people. Use the following list as a constant, personal source of inspiration for positive action in everyday life - and for an even to become a better personthan you already are.

Helping people who urgently need (social) assistance

Many people are desperately looking for supportespecially in the social sector. In keeping with this, I've put together a few inspiring ideas that you can use to volunteer or make a real difference in general:

1. Go to the Blood donation and save lives.
2. Donate certain items of clothing to the clothing store in the region.
3. Get vaccinated to protect others from diseases.
4. Talk to homeless people and support them financially or with food.
5. Volunteer at the food bank, rescue food and help those in need.
6. Support other people with Waste collection campaigns in the surrounding area.
7. Donate money to social organizations that support people in need on a day-to-day basis or campaign for the observance of Human Rights insert
8. Get involved with the telephone counseling service and be there for people with worries and needs.
9. Volunteer with the German Red Cross (DRK) to provide help in various social, health and humanitarian areas.
10. Get involved in refugee aid and help refugee families to learn the language, fill out forms and integrate.
11. Save lives with the volunteer fire department and the technical relief organization.
12. Get involved in elderly care to provide company, support and care for older people and thereby improve their quality of life. Improving quality of life in old age.
13. Support the employees of animal shelters in their daily work.
14. Take on a valuable voluntary position in a sports club.
15. Get involved socially and as a volunteer with Lebenshilfe für Menschen mit Behinderung.
16. Support other people in this, to stop smoking, their Fighting smartphone addiction or any other dependency.
17. Become a harvest helper and provide support in the agricultural sector where permanently scheduled employees are unavailable.
18. Offer others support in finding accommodation and help them to find a safe and affordable home quickly.
19. Share anonymous emergency numbers to give people in distress or crisis situations access to immediate help.
20. Offer other people help with Move or at the Clearing out to relieve them of work.

Help in the household with family, friends and in the neighborhood

Help is needed everywhere! Just keep your eyes and ears open and approach people proactively. Especially senior citizens or people with physical disabilities are happy to receive support in everyday life. I have also put together a few things for you to show your solidarity and helpfulness:

21. Take on a transport service so that people in need in your area can do their everyday errands.
22. Cook meals for senior citizens to save them time and energy.
23. Do the shopping for older people and make their everyday lives easier.
24. Offer babysitting so that parents can also get a well-deserved break.
25. Take care of the plants of neighbors who are on vacation or can no longer water them themselves.
26. Walk the dogs of friends or neighbors if they don't have time for their four-legged friends.
27. Offer your help with technical problems, especially to seniors, in order to teach them how to use modern technologies and thus also the Facilitate everyday life.
28. Take on gardening work and relieve the people around you who can no longer do it themselves.
29. Carry out household repairs to make other people's homes safe and comfortable again.
30. Accompany people to the authorities and help them overcome bureaucratic hurdles.

Helping people through moral courage

Every now and then you find yourself in situations in which decisive action and real civil courage is needed. Here are some things you can do to help those affected:

31. Strengthen the self-confidence of adults and children when they are bullied and make it clear to offenders that this is not possible.
32. Get involved if someone is being harassed or threatened, actively and directly ask others to help and call the police if necessary.
33. Report it to the platforms and show a clear edge when you Hate on the net observe
34. Don't look the other way when someone expresses or behaves in a misogynistic, homophobic or xenophobic way, but address the problem directly. This will help you to combat sexism, homophobia and Combating racism.
35. Report the incident to the police if you become aware of cases of domestic violence.

Help with education, employment and skills development

Anyone can do anything! But not all of us have the same opportunitiesto develop personally and acquire valuable skills. With the following ideas, you can help other people to get better opportunities in life:

36. Teach other people to play a musical instrument.
37. Volunteer at youth centers and promote the development of young people.
38. Offer digital and volunteer tutoring to others.
39. Give away toys that are no longer needed to other parents via classified ads.
40. Be a mentor and pass on your knowledge and experience to others so that they can achieve their goals and Realize dreams can.
41. Share learning materials with others to facilitate their access to education and promote their personal development.
42. Take on sponsorships to sustainably improve the living conditions of children or animals in need.
43. Build a book box for the neighborhood so that you can share books and knowledge with each other.
44. Complete a voluntary social year to develop yourself personally and make a valuable contribution to society.
45. Support others in their job search and help them to find suitable and fulfilling employment.
46. Set up a works council in your company and campaign for fairness and equal rights.
47. Offer workshops to share your knowledge and skills with others and help them learn new skills.
48. Work as an educator, physiotherapist, social assistant, speech therapist, geriatric nurse, paramedic or in another profession where people are helped.

Tip: Feel free to just take a look at the sustainable job portal for jobs with added value for you, the environment and other people.

Helping people through a friendly approach

It is often the rather inconspicuous, small gestures that help other people. Here are some things you can do to help make a big difference with relatively little effort can:

49. Give someone your full attention by listening to him or her and showing that you value his or her thoughts and feelings.
50. Give others a hug to promote closeness and well-being and strengthen the feeling of connection.
51. Give honest compliments to boost other people's self-esteem and lift their spirits.
52. Offer grief support to others to help them through difficult times and share their emotional burden.
53. Visit other people in hospital to keep them company and support their recovery emotionally.
54. Start a pen pal relationship to share cultures and experiences, learn new perspectives, and turn strangers into friends.
55. Prepare another person a Gift or care package to show that you are thinking of him or her and understand the situation at hand.
56. Offer other people a ride or just a seat on the bus.
57. Keep your word to demonstrate trust and reliability and build healthy relationships.
58. Give a smile to spread positive energy and improve the mood of those around you.
59. Say "thank you" to express your appreciation and encourage a feeling of recognition and cooperation.

Help through personal and social change

Our global society is undergoing constant change. This is driven by the people who are Actively promote positive change. I have also put together some ideas for personal inspiration for this type of help:

60. Live vegan for people, counteracts world hunger, protects indigenous peoples, protects employees in the meat industry from exploitation and counteracts the largest Environmental problems of our time against.
61. Get involved in environmental protection organizations or plan your own environmental protection campaigns to actively contribute to the preservation of nature and the basis of life for future generations of humanity.
62. Prefer to consume Fairtrade products in order to avoid human rights violations such as Stop child labor.
63. Campaign for more accessibility in cities, for example to make it easier for people to get around. Life in a wheelchair easier to make.
64. Go to a demonstration and get involved against racism in our society, for example.
65. Start an internet blog to share your thoughts, experiences and ideas with others and create an inspiring platform for exchange.
66. Talk about social problems and their solutions in everyday conversations in order to initiate social change and improvements.
67. Support or initiate petitions against grievances in order to build political pressure and raise awareness of the need for change.

Those who help others also help themselves

Now you have countless tips, ideas and suggestions at hand to help you in your private or professional life and Regularly making a positive difference to the lives of others.

Those who help people and do good always get something in return and enrich not only the lives of others, but also their own. Despite your willingness to help, don't forget to look after your own health and take care of yourself. Time for yourself to put it away. And if you do forget, you can always count on the help of the people around you.

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another."

Charles Dickens (more at Helpfulness Quotes)

I really hope that I could inspire you with this article. Do you have any questions, suggestions or further tips to help people? Then I look forward to your comment!

Stay helpful,

PS: A mindful lifestyle makes you (almost) automatically more helpful and grateful. In the linked blog article, you will now find out what a more mindful everyday life can look like.