Learning to Beg - New Year's Resolution

It's 2011! I can hardly believe it. The days, months and years are flying by. Traditionally, resolutions are a big part of starting a new year. We look back on the previous year and find things we want to do better, more of, or decide to follow a dream -- creating our resolutions for the new year.

This week, I have read many lenses concerning goals and resolutions for 2011. One lens title, in particular, made me giggle. It's titled My New Year's Resolution - To Beg More. If you know Susan, BuckHawk on Squidoo, you would have giggled too. We have fun posting at RocketMoms, trying to make each other laugh. This title did it for me.

Susan runs a rescue center called The BuckHawk Center Animal Rescue. Her New Year's Resolution is to beg for more donations to help run the non-profit organization. In the introduction, she explains her title choice like this:

"No, I'm not homeless, jobless, or starving. My begging isn't for my own comfort. Well, maybe it is in a way. You see, if I can beg more, I can sleep better at night."

Throughout the lens, you feel her absolute passion to help animals. She tells stories of rescues, abused and neglected dogs and how BuckHawk Center provides for these helpless animals. Since begging is not in her nature, she laughs at herself throughout as she learns how to beg. (The begging part is hard for her, unlike the jumping in and helping part.)

Then, the most wonderful part of the lens, she shares the outpouring of compassion and donations made by the wonderful Squidoo lensmasters and community. One of the main purposes for Squidoo when it was first founded in 2005 by Seth, Megan, Corey and Gil was to fund donations to charities.

Does it work? Do people really respond to lenses written about deserving charities? Can a lady from Southwest Missouri running an animal rescue center really receive donations from around the world through Squidoo?

Ask Susan. Hers is a success story in the making.

Image Credit: Begging Pug Birthday by sunrisern