Doing something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, is about the best we can do.
Regular readers know that I am huge fan of artist Austin Kleon. A one-sentence blog post on self-promotion he wrote is the inspiration for this letter ("Write something that you would want to read") and his own weekly letter ("Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week") is its model. I am especially taken by this recent blog post on the profound difficulty and huge reward of simply being kind.
Article: You've Got To Be Kind