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Road to good governance

Good governance starts at home. Picks up at society or area of residence.

Have you ever thought about whether governance is about "WHOM?" Self or others?

By definition, you only govern and mold "your conduct" as it applies "towards others" around you. Conduct typically emanates from guidelines and beliefs. Some are written and some are learned by experience (which may very well be good or bad). Your conduct is demonstrable in day-to-day exchanges about various immediate needs. Conduct permits the needs to be served or left pending. 

Pending work is either doable or not doable. It can never be in a "do not know what to do about it" for too long. The more you keep things pending the more person who has needs will return for satisfying those needs. As an end result, you remain occupied with the same work for more time than what it's worth. 

The more your conduct is mold-able the more you find others' needs from you get served or amicably denied but even more importantly you free yourself up from keeping things in an unknown state.

So in essence, if you fix your conduct you are likely to govern better because you are likely to be watchful of how others around you get governed (or simply impacted by your conduct).

Why is it then we are empathetic toward certain people's needs and completely hostile or ignorant about others?

Why is it then these very people when they are treated in the same manner intolerant of what comes their way?

After all, each interaction results in unknown guidelines of what should be done similarly or what should be done very differently.

Each interaction is then an opportunity to influence others' conduct through your own. 

Even negative conduct triggers guidelines for positive conduct. 

Good conduct is viral. Observe it. Just be sure to note it. Reflect on it. And if you think you earned a pat for yourself - then - encourage others' good conduct. 

Costs nothing more than a few of your own brainwaves.

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