Boom, Boom, Wow!

As a culture, we give plenty of lip service to embracing the need for random acts of kindness, but when it come to follow-through? Well, that’s another story.

It’s a story that has a happier ending these days, thanks to follow-through of the creators behind Boom, Boom! Cards, a deck of cards intended to inspire intentional acts of kindness.

Huh? It’s all about doing something nice for someone else. Like what? How about burning a CD or creating a playlist with inspirational music for someone who needs to hear it? Or thanking all of the school secretaries at your kids’ school—when it isn’t Administrative Assistants Day?

Basically, the deck is stacked so that you can’t do anything but good. Each kit comes with an online code where you register your set of cards. As you cross do-good acts off your list—like asking someone who is alone at lunch to join or remembering to hold the door open for a stranger—you do two things. First, let the world know about it via your online Boom Boom! account where your card is ‘played’ and geographically tracked. And then, you take the Boom Boom! card you just used and leave it for someone else to find. If we all act right, the goodness goes on and on and on.

What’s the point? The creators, who worked on the idea for a year before actually launching the cards in early ‘09 are talking ‘bout a revolution. The good kind.

The Boom Boom! team is convinced that there is “a small but growing army of people who are sure that we can re-vision the world we know and create the world we want through simple actions that allow us to reach out and exercise the innate altruism that lives in all of us.”

Sounds good to me. Check out their blog, complete with video uploads and discussions of the many, many easy ways we can all do good, and order a deck at the same time.

Revolutionary acts for everyday life: Boom Boom! Cards - $9.99