serving.love/love-challenge
The Love Challenge
One intentional act of lovingkindness, every week. Read it in a minute. Do it today.
This week
Challenge 18 — Ask “How are you doing?”
Then stay for the answer. Most people move through an entire week without one person genuinely asking — and without one person waiting long enough to hear the real reply.
Your challenge this week: ask three people, and count silently to five before you say anything back.
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The archive
Recent challenges
Strangers · Challenge 04
Call people by name
The barista wears a name tag. The delivery driver signed the slip. Using someone's name is the cheapest way on earth to tell a stranger they are not scenery.
Friends & Family · Challenge 05
Tell them their impact on your life
Someone shaped you and has no idea. This week, tell one person exactly what they changed — specifically, out loud, with no hedging.
General · Challenge 13
Be there in their pain
You do not have to fix it. You do not have to know what to say. You have to not leave. Here's what showing up actually looks like.
Your kids & grandkids · Challenge 08
Make memories on purpose
Kids don't remember the average Tuesday. Build one thing this month they'll still describe in twenty years.
General · Challenge 12
Listening is emotional attention
Most of us listen for our turn to talk. There's a different way, and it costs nothing but the discomfort of silence.
Strangers · Challenge 10
Help the homeless
The hardest one on the list, and the one that changes you fastest. Start with eye contact and a name.