The Expanded Golden Rule Explained

This is the secret of the universe.

Listen to it, write it down, brand it in your brain.

Everything in your life will get better now, and here it is.

The expanded golden rule. Number one: think about others

as you wish they would be thinking about you.

Hey, for those of you who are Christians, Jesus said if you think about committing

adultery with someone, you have. Thoughts are powerful, so if

you give positive thoughts to people, happiness to people, if you're

saying, "I'm so happy for them. I'm so glad they're succeeding." If

you are pouring love and gratitude and appreciation into people, if you

are blessing them, if you are wishing that God blesses them,

if you're sending all

this, if you're thinking about people, you're planting karmic seeds into the

universe. So rule one: think about people as you wish they would

think about you.

Rule two: talk about people as you wish they would

talk about you.

That means when they're not around.

I was just sitting in the cigar lounge earlier today, and I

was talking to my good

friend Spiros. And we were saying, "You know, I know this guy." He goes, "Oh,

what's he like?" And I thought I could say something.

And I said, "Cancel, cancel." And I said, "Let me tell you what I like about him."

And I focused on what I liked, and I talked about this fellow as I

hoped he would talk about me. With deliberate intent, I'm planting

karmic seeds. Because if you're talking about people

when they're not

around in a manner that you wish they would talk the same way

about you, it's gonna

come back to you a hundred times. You are planting positive karmic

seeds and creating this incredible, wonderful, blessed karma in your life.

Number three: talk to people as you wish they would talk

to you.

Do you yell at them? Do you call them names?

Are you respectful?

Are you disrespectful? Are you mean? Are you short? Are you abrupt?

Are you kind? Are you courteous? How do you talk to people?

And I'm talking about everyone. And then the last part of the expanded

golden rule

is treat people the way you want them to treat you.

I had a friend of mine, and I said, "I, I know you're in this business, and I'd

like you to do this transaction for me.

What does it cost?" And he said, "I will give you my cost on it."

And I said,

"Well, I appreciate that very much." He goes,

"But I'll do one better.

If you do a social media post promoting my company, I'll do it for free." He

was treating me really good. And I thought,

I'm gonna treat him like I would like

him to treat me. I'm gonna be even more generous,

'cause you can't outgive God,

right? So I said, "I'll tell you what.

I'll do that media post, and I'll give you your full rate."

And he was

flabbergasted. I treated him with an action in a manner

that I would

want him or somebody else to treat me.