{"id":740,"date":"2024-05-13T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/?p=740"},"modified":"2024-05-12T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T14:16:17","slug":"the-personal-golden-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/2024\/05\/the-personal-golden-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Golden Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few days ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a seasoned Ag educator and farmer about farmer stress and supporting farmers. He was talking about the Golden Rule\u2014you know, \u201cDo unto others as you would have them do unto you\u201d\u2014and he asked me a question that has really stuck with me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf,\u201d he asked \u201cwe all pretty much agree that we should treat other people the way we would want them to treat us, then why don\u2019t we treat ourselves<\/em> the same way we would like others to treat us?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That really struck me. The Personal Golden Rule, as I\u2019ve started to think of it. Many of us are not very good at it at all. We try to be kind, and thoughtful and helpful to others, but don\u2019t give ourselves the same grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we\u2019re trying our best, we would never want someone to tell us we aren\u2019t working hard enough, or are making dumb decisions. We would never want someone to say we shouldn\u2019t take a water break, or stop to eat the healthy food we need, or get some sleep.  We wouldn\u2019t let someone else do that to us\u2014so why do we let ourselves<\/em> do that to us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside of each of us is something worthy and important. The world needs that\u2014the world needs each of us. And the world needs each of us being the best possible version of ourselves. We each have a responsibility to take care of the valuable person that we are. Taking care of our bodies and our minds, being healthy and safe, showing ourselves some kindness, is important. In fact, it\u2019s not just important, it\u2019s a responsibility, a moral imperative we each have to ourselves and to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, do unto yourself as you would have others do unto you. Be respectful, be caring, be generous, give a break–to yourself.  You deserve it. The world needs you to keep thriving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a seasoned Ag educator and farmer about farmer stress and supporting farmers. He was talking about the Golden Rule\u2014you know, \u201cDo unto others as you would have them do unto you\u201d\u2014and he asked me a question that has really stuck with me. \u201cIf,\u201d he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/thriving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}