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“A Cub Scout always does his best, thinks of others before himself and does a Good Turn early day.”

This is a very good start point which is why I’ve typed this because it covers a few fundamentals of which one is no one perfect at everything and so you may well struggle but you carry on trying until you have done your very best in everything.

People can struggle around feeling happy and finding joy in their lives  but being focused on our need for this is to get things the wrong way around. We find joy and enjoy our lives with others when we think about what would make other people happy and what they’d like you to do that would help and less on what we’d want to do. We put our thoughts having done that into action.

The phrase Good Turn can be misunderstood in everyday speech. We all have chores that we do to help those who help us in certain situations but they are not Good Turns. A Good Turn is something extra that helps others. We don’t just do what we ‘have to’, we look beyond at what needs to be done and do it.

If the aim of scouting is to prepare people for life, then getting our motivations and responsibilities to ourselves and to others aright matters a good deal so we do move on from dependency to higher levels of personal independence and   responsibility.

If like me you missed much of this, being a “cub scout in spirit” can help in focusing away from past bad habits putting you on a better road to living.