Part Three
The above posts told how you ‘make it better’ for yourself: you claim your human rights while keeping in mind that there are no rights without responsibility! Therefore you assume responsibility. You seek it out. You take it on. To say it briefly, you DO. You insist on excellence in your own performance of a task. You want to do it both efficiently and effectively. What is the difference between these two ideas?
To do something efficiently is to do it with the least cost of time, energy, money, and material.
To do something effectively is to put people first and foremost; things and stuff next; and systems, opinions, dogma, and creeds last. (To say that systems have least value is not saying that they have no value.) To be effective is to know your priorities! It is to care about others and avoid disparaging them, degrading them, failing to show them some respect. Give them this respect just because they’re human.
To be effective is to value individuals highly, to get involved, to care and share, to cooperate on a common goal, to work together for a worthwhile end in view.
Note that the Ultimate Goal for a QL is to provide a QL for one and all. For example, one could feed and shelter the homeless. See these websites: habitat.org/volunteer
nationalhomeless.org/references/need-help/
What is a QL, a Quality Life? It consists of happiness and well-being. (It also means an ethical life. It is living ethically.)
To learn of some basic Moral Principles, see pp. 27-28 of The Structure of Ethics book. See the first link in the Signature below.
To learn more details about the nature of “well-being,” see pages 33-34 of that same document.
How does the kindness principle apply in business?
To learn the properties of an ethical business, see Chapter Five in The Structure booklet.