A teacher forced her students to do 3 good deeds a day

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A Buddhist monk was sharing about his student days in a Buddhism seminar. He said that when he was in Primary 3, a teacher forced the students to do 3 good deeds a day, and wrote them in a journal. The teacher would read the journal of all the students every week. Since these were just students. They wrote about helping mother do housework, helping classmates with homework, etc. In a week, they would have accumulated more than 21 good deeds. After a year, all of them had the good habits of doing good deeds. Nearly all of them carried this habit into their adulthood. At the time of the seminar, the monk was over the age of 50. He said that they had done an informal survey of the achievement of all the classmates in the class. As a whole, the students who were forced to do 3 good deeds a day in their childhood were more successful in life than their peers. They were happier, and more successful in their family, career or business. The monk mentioned this as a lesson for everyone that giving does produce happiness, and that good habits are best cultivated when young, and carry on to adulthood.