Looking for Help from Bloggers

Every Wednesday The Scratching Post does a World of Good (WOG) post.

I am looking for bloggers to link to these when they are posted.

I believe in the power of personal kindness. The foundation for my belief is my Catholic faith, but it has been nourished through years of experience.

Recently our company was presented with a choice between attacking a business competitor who was about to fail in front of a customer or correcting his mistakes in private and helping him succeed. We chose the latter. The customer rewarded us both handsomely when he was presented with a solution endorsed by both competitors instead of a public argument where the truth was too complicated for the customer to make out.

I also believe in the power of suggestion. I think that by sharing these acts of kindness we encourage each other to emulate them in our own lives.

The news is filled with stories of destruction and harm. It can be a demoralizing affair to sit down and watch the network news. However, when we see stories of our neighbors or fellow citizens involved in acts of heroism or self-sacrifice, we marvel at them and wish we could do the same. After all, who doesn’t want to be admired? The more examples we see of such acts, the more we will be encouraged to do them ourselves.

That’s the whole point of the WOGs. If you would like to know when we post new WOGs, please send me an email and I’ll be sure to let you know. If you would link to them on your blog, I would very much appreciate that.

Here are the WOGs we’ve done so far.

WOG, Navy Style
WOG, Aussie Style
WOG, Katrina Style
WOG, Hospice Style
WOG, Boy Scout Style

Thanks to an unquenchable source of good deeds in the human race, we will never run out of WOG posts. Maybe we can work together to make them more common in all our lives.