I want to keep this simple so I will reveal right now three sequential steps for becoming a better person. The first is to ask the question, “What is the good thing for me to do?” The second is to listen. The third is to act. Let me point out that it is your free, agentic, Inner-Self that does the asking, listening, and acting. It is easy to see that your Inner-Self can ask the question of “What is the good thing for me to do?” but what about the listening, about getting the answer to the question. Maybe I am a little too bold when I say the following in Becoming a Better Marriage Partner: (page 81) “If you do this sincerely the answers will always come. And the answer you receive will always be the sure and true guide at each moment.”
After the answer comes then you must act. You become a doer of good. Each time you ask, listen for an answer, and then put it into action by living it you become a better person. Asking about small things helps you become a better person just as much as asking, listening, and acting on big, heavy, and dramatic issues in life. The point to see here is that the more you can use, practice, and live by using these three steps the faster you move towards becoming a better person. Thus, each day when facing either big or little decisions you have the opportunity to become a better person by always asking, “What is the good thing for me to do?” and then listening for the answer, and thirdly putting the answer into action. So, Ask, Listen, Act.
Question of the day: Are there other ways to state, “What is the good thing for me to do?” What is the advantage of actually putting this question into words that makes it a practical way to guide your decision making?
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