Mind Mastery

If you were to park in the middle of the road, just because it was closer to the store for you, but other people couldn't drive past, would this be a considerate thing to do?

If someone threw rubbish onto your front lawn, is this considerate?

If you spat on the footpath, would you be considerate of other people as they were walking?

If you were standing at a cashier about to buy something and someone came right up to you, shoulder to shoulder, when there was plenty of room, would this be considerate of your personal space?

If you cut in front of other people waiting in line at a theme park, would this be considerate?

If someone was deliberately driving slow in front of you, would they be doing something considerate?

If you never washed your own dishes at home and always expected your partner or someone else to clean up after your mess, would this be a considerate act?

If your partner always took out the rubbish, are you being considerate to them by never helping out?

If someone was coming to pick you up, a taxi driver, uber or friend, and you made them wait outside for you because you were taking a long time to organise yourself and get ready, would this be something considerate for you to do?

If you had parked your motorbike on the street, parallel to the road, like everyone else so you can make room for more bikes, yet someone decided to park horizontally in front of you, when there was plenty of room to park parallel, would they be doing so because they are considerate or not?

When you go to a restaurant or cafe and leave a mess, food all over the table, dishes all over the place, is this the way someone considerate would leave their table?

When in public, is it a considerate thing to chew with your mouth open, making lots of noise?

When out in a restaurant or other public place, is it considerate to talk obnoxiously loud, so the whole establishment can hear you?

When someone is walking across the road and you’re driving, are they being considerate when they walk deliberately slow, making you need to break and wait for them?

How considerate are you being when you check out of a hotel room leaving it as a pig sty for the cleaners?

How considerate are you being whenever a family member starts to talk about a topic they find interesting, you just walk away?

Are you being considerate if you smoke near people at a cafe, restaurant or other public place, regardless of the policies?

When in the gym training, are you being considerate of others if you leave sweat all over the equipment by not using a towel? How about if you go out of your way to deliberately grunt, yell and scream as loud as you can when lifting weights?

Is it considerate to play loud and obnoxious music in public venues and places?

If you work at a cafe or juice shop and you put a straw into every drink you serve, when it’s not necessary, are you considering the impact on the environment you are causing?

If you sell items at your store and always give your customers a plastic bag, even when they don’t need it, is this a considerate act towards the environment or not?

Are you being considerate when you take your baby into a public venue and the baby is crying really loudly, yet you do nothing to calm your child?

When you pay someone a lot of money to do a job for you, yet they do a poor job, are they being considerate of your investment into them?

Consideration is the act of pre-thought.

It’s the ability to think before you act and to ask yourself the question “will this action negatively or positively affect other people?”

“Would I like it if someone else did this to me”?

If you don’t think before you act and do things, being inconsiderate is the least of your many concerns.

If you do think and know what you are doing is wrong and you wouldn't like to be treated the same way as you are treating others, then you are being inconsiderate.

If you think before you act and adjust your choices in accordance with they way you would like to be treated, then you are someone who is considerate.

Being a considerate person is made up for all the tiny acts of consideration you make.

Often, experience is required to learn the skill of consideration, as you may not think you are being inconsiderate until someone points it out to you.

Inconsideration can be accidental or deliberate.

When it’s accidental, you can easily change by choice.

When it’s deliberate, you need to start trusting, respecting and considering yourself first before you can become considerate of others.

No one who truly respects and trusts themselves would treat others poorly.

It’s only ever the broken, unwhole and incomplete who mistreat other people.

Those who choose to be inconsiderate have a lot of work to do, so those people who are considerate, do your best to help them help themselves.

Building Utopian towns, communities, societies and a world civilisation requires the skill of consideration to be taught and learnt by all people.

If we aren't considerate of each other, we shouldn’t be living together.

If we can’t live together considerately on earth, then why are we even here?

Simple acts of consideration go a long way to creating the peaceful Utopia we all deserve.