Boy scouts have that lovely idea of doing a good deed per day. As an ex boy scout it’s something that I really want to bring back in my life.

For a few months I did this with a habit of tacking out a piece of trash out of the floor per day. Suddenly in 150 days I took out 3542 pieces of trash in trash bins that would have otherwise ended up in the mouth of baby, in the belly of an animal or in the water.

Such ideas are even used by service providers. BVB, the local transportation company of Basel, a city in Switzerland, had for a time a thing called Karma Rider which would motivate people to do good deeds in public transports.

Action question

What would be a daily good deed you could implement in your personal or work life? How can you track and celebrate the good deeds to make it a true routine?

Daniele's notes

• This is the first shitty draft of this principle

• This principle might one day make it in the fifth book in the "Service Design Principles" series that explores how to better serve humans and the planet.

• If you're curious about service design principles, you can get the four previous books in the series, with proofread principles and less grammatical creativity.