The Golden Rule doesn’t really mean that you should treat someone else exactly as you’d want them to treat you … it means that you should try to imagine how they want to be treated, and do that.
Thirty ways to care for others:
Absolutely FREE:
- Be friendly
- Be courteous in traffic
- Listen to others
- Give everyone you meet today, a smile
- Instead of asking "how are you?" and moving on, genuinely wait for the answer and listen with both ears
- Stop criticism
- Volunteer at a retirement home/senior center
- Take care of your neighbor's children for a couple of hours so that she can do something she doesn't get to do ordinarily
- Do something for someone anonymously
- Send an email to someone you haven't talked to for a long time....just because
- Shovel the neighbor's sidewalk
- Call someone
- Volunteer at a daycare or hospital
- Check on an elderly neighbor
- Bring groceries/dinner to a shut in
- Hold the door for someone
- Find something good to say to everyone you encounter today
- Say a prayer for someone who showed you his/her anger
- Give blood
- Tell someone a joke/make them smile
- Write a letter to a serviceman/woman
- Overcome prejudice
- Help someone else at the airport with their bags
- Forgive someone
- Praise or encourage someone
These five may cost a little but reap BIG rewards:
- Pay the toll for the person in the car behind you
- Buy lunch for someone without them knowing
- Put a quarter in the meter, any meter
- Send someone a love gift
- Everyone sends cards immediately when someone dies, but the grief and loss go on for a long time--send them a card, send them a note, send them a rose that says you remember their loved one
The Golden Rule also applies to you:
Health:
- Drink plenty of water
- Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
- Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants
- Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
- Make time to pray
- Play more games
- Read more books than you did in 2010
- Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
- Sleep for 7 hours
- Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.
Personality:
- Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about
- Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
- Don't overdo. Keep your limits
- Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does
- Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
- Dream more while you are awake
- Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need
- Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness
- Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others
- Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
- No one is in charge of your happiness except you
- Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime
- Smile and laugh more
- You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Life:
- Do the right thing!
- Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
- GOD heals everything
- However good or bad a situation is, it will change
- No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
- The best is yet to come
- When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
- Your inner most is always happy. So, be happy.
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