In one of his podcasts, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev talks about having friends. He has an interesting suggestion to test whether we are eligible to have friends. Stay alone for a whole day, do not sleep, do not read, just stay alone and watch the mind. At the end of the day, ask oneself whether it was good company. For instance, the simple "Did I like my thoughts? or Am I a good person?". He says the answers are direct clues on whether other people would like to be around us.
Connected to the above, I remember a forward saying we should not do anything that we do not wish our kids to do. It is probably a good signboard for life. Before any action or even thought, it would be appropriate to evaluate whether one would approve of his son or daughter doing the same or thinking along the same lines in a similar situation in life. And let that be anything, from procrastination to thinking ill of others to an unwarranted exhibition of anger at the weak.
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