Doing the Right Thing Throughtout LIfe

How do you know when you're doing the right thing? I was wondering how often I don't do the right thing. I try like a mad hatter with my own flow of thought to always do the right thing. That's what I want. I want to do what's right. But do I succeed? That's a good question.

To answer this question for me and myself, I am wondering what the measurement is. How do I know that I am doing the right thing? How can I tell if I am not doing the right thing?

It's a mystery, but only if I ignore the comparison. Hmmm, my mind spins. Ah hah, I have it! You are doing the right thing if you obey the golden rule.

If what i do, is exactly what I want someone else to do if I am the recipient, then I am doing the right thing. Make sense, blog?

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n other words, if I am faced with a problem, challenge, a choice, a dilemma, a behavior someone expects from me, all I have to do is be the other person. Put myself in the other person's shoes. When I consider, examine, be real about how I would feel about this other persons' behavior, an behavior that affects me, I have the solution. The answer. If my choice to behave a certain way follows how I want to be treated, Voila, I know I am doing the right thing.

If I predict that I might feel mistreated, insulted or even slighted, then I am not doing the right thing. I must adjust my behavior in order to do the right thing and the right thing is what I want to end up with.

It sounds so simple using this blueprint. After all, the pattern follows the well known "Golden Rule" and who is unaware of this rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.

That's what I call food for thought. A real solution. The best possible answer to the question of the day.

That's it, blog. Have a golden day!