Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time

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Doing the Right Thing - No Matter What It Costs By Darius Maslow Doing the right thing in life takes guts and priority. It is very difficult to do the right thing, especially when you are faced in a situation that involves money and/or some form of greed. Many people will not do the right thing simply because it's easier not to. They have much more to gain by not doing the right thing than they have to lose. You must make it your first priority in life to always do the right thing, no matter what it cost you. Everyone has heard the story about the hundreds of students that were taking the state bar exam in California. This was during the early 1990s when one of the hundreds of men taking the test, started having a seizure during the middle of it. They stood by his side and helped him until pay or medics were able to arrive. The two men lost out on 40 minutes of time taking the test. The test had strict policies about the amount of time that will be allotted for it. Whether you completed it or not, you were only allotted a certain amount of time and then the test was over. These men lost 40 minutes, which is a significant amount of time when taking a state bar exam. They would not be able to pass the bar exam, even if they had gotten all the other questions right, when losing the 40 minutes. Both men asked for an exception to the rule because of what happened. The supervisor and the State Bar executiveboth stuck to their rules and would not budge. Now, anyone who hears this story automatically starts thinking, what were those two men thinking that would not allow the two students 40 more minutes to take the test. They helped save someone's life and in return got no consideration for understanding whatsoever from the state bar administration. If you think about this logically, common sense would tell you that the two men did the right thing. Whenever you have
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