A good example of a DeROSE Method practitioner in the concept area is effective action to transform the world through civility (we can call it good deeds or even good manners).
Every day we will compute how many praiseworthy actions we take.

Three times three

Three is one of the revered numbers in our Hindu tradition, and we find it in the Trimurti, the trishúla, the trikuti, the tribandha, the trigranthi, etc. Let us then make our account from it.
If you perform less than three meritorious deeds today, consider that this was a lead day.
If you perform three good deeds, this was a bronze day.
With two times three good manner actions, your day will have been silver.
By accomplishing three times three actions of civility, celebrate a gold day.
But if you accomplished more than three times three actions, you are our hero and your day was a diamond!

What might those actions be?

  • Make a donation to a serious social welfare institution.
  • Participate as a volunteer in a philanthropic campaign.
  • Get involved with the Civil Defense campaigns in your city.
  • Give food to those who are hungry.
  • Give a coat to those who are cold.
  • Give a smile, an attention, a gesture of affection to those who need it, as much as to those who are hungry or cold.
  • Save an abandoned dog.
  • Water the flowers in your neighbor's garden, selflessly.
  • Stop your car to make way for a pedestrian who is trying to cross the street, even if he or she is out of the pedestrian path.
  • Help a stranger who has fallen on the sidewalk because of an epileptic seizure.
  • Give flowers to a friend.
  • Don't get upset when another driver is rude, cuts you off or even crashes into you.
  • Apologize, even if you are sure you are right.
  • Treat a beggar who asks you for money well.
  • Telephone a friend, colleague or relative, just to ask how he or she is doing.
  • Talk about general topics with a stranger in the supermarket or shopping mall.
  • Shake a lady's hand to get out of the car.
  • Offer to help carry the neighbor's groceries to the lot where you live or the stranger in the parking lot.
  • Carry your friend's heavy bag.
  • Listen to someone who needs to talk about a problem.
  • Throw something in the trash can that someone has dropped out of it.
  • Pet a dog.
  • Praise someone's child.
  • Congratulate a colleague or adversary on a conquest or a successful project.
  • Give a tip that is more substantial than the usual minimum.
  • Thank for service and praise the performance of the waiter or other professional.
  • Say "you're right.
  • Smile at people at the club, in stores, in your business.
  • Treat your doorman, your janitorial assistant and all junior staff courteously.
  • Recycle.
  • Provide information, assistance, guidance (in the company, in traffic, in the faculty).
  • Talk to the employees who serve you.
  • Listen to your spouse's complaints. And address them.
  • Say thank you and smile at someone on the street, in traffic, shopping.
  • Respond gently to an irritated neighbor.
  • Reassure a colleague, family member or friend when they are upset with you.
  • Do not insult those who deserve it.
  • When you don't need an object or clothing, don't keep it or throw it away: look for someone who needs it and give them a gift. What is of no use to one may be a blessing to another.
  • Give useful information to someone.

Giraldi Method, of the São Paulo State Military Police

  • Do not make emotional decisions.
  • Family is the most important thing there is. Have time for your wife and children.
  • The absence of a father and mother is the gateway to drugs.
  • Serenity at all times.
  • There are three forms of love: the word, the touch and the look. Therefore, embrace your child, your wife and your friends.
  • Always smile.
  • Praise your child and your subordinate whenever possible.
  • Don't yell at your child or your subordinate. Exchange fear for respect.
  • Work problems should not enter the home.
  • Always visit your parents, so as not to visit them in the cemetery.