Remember when I told you about Operation Beautiful and the Daily Challenge? Well, let me tell you, they’re both up to more good!

These two movements have so much in common: They started with a good idea, they put that idea into action, and they expected nothing in return.

Let me give you a quick update:

Operation Beautiful: The mission of Operation Beautiful is to post anonymous notes in public places for other women to find. Post-it notes with positive messages are popping up all over the place. Check out www.operationbeautiful.com for example after example about how people all over the world are reminding complete strangers about their inner and outer beauty. Catlin, the beauty and brains behind this movement just landed a book deal to tell her story. Congratulations, Catlin!

Daily Challenge: Daily Challenge is an inspired social network of do-gooders who do small daily acts of kindness in their communities. In Ontario today they are celebrating Pay-It-Backward Day. Do-gooders can go to one of over 170 Second Cup coffee shop locations and offer to “pay it backward” by buying coffee for the person behind them in line. With each simple act of “coffee kindness” a $5 donation to the SickKids Foundation will be made. Do One Good and their sponsors, Second Cup and Silk Soy Beverage, hope to inspire 2,000 acts of kindness to reach their goal of  $10,000 for SickKids Foundation today.

How can we participate:

• Let’s make someone’s day by posting a note or two Operation Beautiful-style with an inspiring note for some lucky person to stumble upon.
• Let’s participate in Pay-It-Backward day whether we live in Ontario or not. Let’s challenge ourselves to pay-it-backward someway, somehow. Buy the coffee for the person behind you or just go out of your way to do one good for someone else today.

After all:

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ~ John Bunyon

Now, how about a cup of coffee, gorgeous?