Ask yourself:

• Have you taken full advantage of the circumstances offered to you?

• Are you working hard on your career, your job?

• Are you letting bitterness and resentment hold you back and drag you down?

• Are you treating your spouse and children with dignity and respect?

• Have you made peace with your brother?

• Do you have habits that are destroying your health and well-being?

• Are you truly shouldering your responsibilities?

• Have you said what you need to say to your friends and family members?

• Are there things that you could do, that you know you could do that would make things around you better?

If the answer is no, here is something to try:

Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong. Start stopping today.

Don’t waste your time questioning how you know that something is wrong. Let your own soul guide you. We are too complex to know ourselves completely and we all contain wisdom that we cannot comprehend. 

Don’t blame capitalism, the radical left, or the iniquity of your enemies. Don’t reorganise the states until you have ordered your own existence. Have some humility. 

If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

As a result of this pursuit, you will become stronger. The tragedies of your life will be only tragedies instead of spiralling into hellishness. Your anxiety, hopelessness, resentment and anger will recede. Perhaps, you might even learn to see existence as a genuine good, as something to celebrate, even in the face of your own vulnerability. 

Perhaps you will become an ever-more-powerful force for peace and whatever is good.

Perhaps you will see that if more people did it, the world might stop being an evil place. Maybe one day even becomes genuinely good. 

Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world. 

Adapted from: 12 rules for life by J. B. Peterson 

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