Doing the right thing vs doing things right

Here’s the catch: most times, we worry about doing things right: am I looking at this right? Is this a fair process? Am I considerate? Will this work?

What’s more important, before we even get to doing things right, what’s MOST important is actually… are we doing the right thing?

That is the hard questions to start with - where we need to understand and figure things out deeply. Because if we’re not doing the right things, even if we do them right, it really does not matter, it just keeps us busy, but not thoughtful, not intentional, not creating or contributing to what is really needed - for us and for others.

This sequence here matters most in creating the impact we want to see in the world. Doing things right but not the right things… might feel rewarding and good, but… cannot come close to doing the right thing, even if we don’t manage to do it in the right way. Because how we do things matters less than why we do them and how deliberate we are about where we invest our hearts and minds.

If you’re doing the right things, you’re planting the roots of what you want to see more of in the world. If you’re doing things right, you might just be tending some weeds.