If Lost Start Here is a guide for the anxious, curious, lonely and lost. Featuring everyday places and at-home prompts designed to help you live a life that feels good.
Doing Good
When life feels hard or heavy, our instinct is often to retreat. To turn inward. To try and sort it all out on our own.
But there’s another way. One that’s quieter, more generous and surprisingly effective.
Giving back. Helping out. Lifting someone else, even just a little.
It turns out that doing something for others can also be healing for us. Studies show that small acts of kindness and volunteering don’t just help communities — they build our self-esteem, reduce feelings of isolation, and bring a greater sense of purpose and belonging.
It doesn’t have to be big or performative. You don’t have to be in perfect shape to show up for someone else. Sometimes the act of doing good, even in the smallest way, helps us feel more connected, more hopeful, more human again.
If you've ever watched The Good Place, you'll know the magic of small, consistent goodness. Not in pursuit of perfection, but in pursuit of something better — for all of us.
This pathway is here to remind you that you still have something to offer. That even in the mess or the fog, you’re part of a wider world. And your presence — your help, your care — can make a difference.
You don’t need to figure it all out first. You just need to begin where you are.
Because sometimes the best way back to yourself is through helping someone else.
Our Edit of Places to Give Back
Where can you go to be of service? How do you make all those changes you know the world needs?
We’ll be adding more as we build this guide. Let us know your places for good too.
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“If you’re trying to make a change just for yourself, all you are trying to do is be invited to the table. If you’re trying to make change for everyone, then you’re actually committed to justice and to changing the system.”
“We only have what we give.”
Where to next?
Giving back is one of the areas that you can choose to explore in our Well-being Prescriptions.