Four easy steps to making sure you are taking good action

Four easy steps to making sure you are taking good action
Pam Miller 
18 August 2016

The first step is: Be present, calm down, stop everything else and just be aware of where you are and what you should be doing.

Step 2: Think of all best practices regarding what it is that you are about to do.

Step 3: Think of the purpose of what you are doing - What is the point of what you are trying to achieve, and keep in mind that it should benefit the community.

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Step 4: Find your voice and do the best thing in the circumstances even if its not going to win you any friends because, it is the right thing to do.

There is a modern trend that says “only look at the positive ” and while that is a great way to be happy and content, it is not really going to change the world or do something to benefit it. I fully agree with being grateful, finding the positive in things, being aware of the good things, but I also support that we need to be aware of the things that are damaging all the good bits. 

We need to be aware of what steps need to be taken to make sure that those good bits remain for ourselves, and for our children, and to benefit the world. So I do not support the school of thought that calls anyone who disagrees with you a "hater". To deny somebody who disagree, with you is a very shallow approach to life, and in fact it says we need to look at the way we are thinking.

We need to think before we do things and that means we need to look at the bigger picture, not just our own self-centered selfish needs. Look what the world need so that we can benefit indirectly.To only look at our direct needs and wants will, in the long term, cause damage.

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We as humans tend to go with the herd and there is a reason for doing that. We are programmed to try and stick with the herd because that is survival. But it is a very short term survival - it only gives us survival for ourselves. It does not ensure that the planet survives, that our children survive. 

You need to consciously make sure that you have made a good decision and that is where the four steps come in. And then decide to stick your head above the parapet, focus on doing the right thing even if unpopular because it benefits the world rather than just yourself. 

Find your voice and speak about it. 

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