Today, I visited Chili's Bar & Grill for lunch. If you are reading before your local Chili's closes on 9/24/12, please stop in for lunch or dinner. 100% of profits from all of the restaurant's nationwide locations will be donated to St. Jude's!!! Please eat and donate.

As I was exiting the restaurant, I thought to myself, "That's my one good deed for the day". In all honesty, I do not place limits upon or count my good deeds each day. Yet, this saying entered my mind. So it got me to thinking. Where did that line come from and who made it popular? Surely, there was not a man or woman who kept count of each kind, generous action that they performed on a daily basis. Or did they?

I searched "my one good deed for the day" on the web and there was no history provided about the phrase (although I was too lazy to go beyond the second results page). All that I saw were web pages encouraging others to perform one good deed a day and sites on which people posted their good deeds. But why only one? I am perplexed by this notion that "if you just perform one good deed a day, you can help to make the world a better place". Why limit ourselves? Why not live each day with the goal of being kind and generous to our highest capacity? Just a thought.

If anyone finds the origin of the phrase, "My one good deed for the day", please share by posting a comment on this blog. Thanks.