{"id":3723,"date":"2018-09-09T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2018-09-09T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:04:40","slug":"do-unto-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2018\/09\/09\/do-unto-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Do unto others?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Golden Rule \u2013 Do unto others, as you would have them do onto you.<\/em> It seems simple enough. Treat people the way you want to be treated. It can get complicated though can\u2019t it? What if you don\u2019t think that you deserve to be treated with respect in dignity? Does that then become how you treat others?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that truly confident, self-aware people treat others badly on purpose. I think that those of us who treat others unkindly do it because of something lacking in our own lives. So how do we do better?<\/p>\n

I think the first step is awareness. A lot of the times, the things that bother us about other people are the things that remind us of ourselves, and not in a good way. If we pay attention to those things and realize that these things are a reflection of ourselves, then we can do better.<\/p>\n

Maya Angelou is quoted as saying that \u201cDo<\/strong> the best you<\/strong> can until you know better<\/strong>. Then when you know better<\/strong>, do better<\/strong>.\u201d It\u2019s a lot harder than it sounds though, isn\u2019t it? The behaviors that trouble us the most are habits that have developed over time and it takes time, work and commitment to not continue those bad habits. Doing better doesn\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n

Consider the people you admire. Preferably people you know personally, but even those people you don\u2019t. What are the qualities of the people you admire? The people, that when they do something, you think that you\u2019d love to do something similar. Is it their kindness, their generosity, or maybe it\u2019s simply their ability to make you laugh. Whatever those things are, think about how you can do that in your own life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to judge people for the things that we don\u2019t like about them.\u00a0 Maybe they gossip too much or say one thing to your face and say something different behind your back. We\u2019ve all been guilty of doing things we\u2019re not proud of. It\u2019s when we don\u2019t accept and forgive ourselves for these things that we continue to do those things and judge others for doing the same.<\/p>\n

Instead of saying treat others the way that we want to be treated, I think we should be more specific. Treat people with kindness, compassion and empathy. It may not be what we think we deserve, but it\u2019s what we need.\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Golden Rule \u2013 Do unto others, as you would have them do onto you. It seems simple enough. Treat people the way you want to be treated. It can get complicated though can\u2019t it? What if you don\u2019t think that you deserve to be treated with respect in dignity? Does that then become how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}