@JustGoneNow well, sometimes it would be easier to follow than others as life factors impact on how we are feeling. Don't be too hard on yourself. As long as it is a guiding principal you by & large live by, you will be doing well.
You are a very good person, Just remember, we all have slip ups from time to time. 😊
Some people seem to want to pretend their lives are trouble free. It's way too easy to pretend life is a bowl of cherries when you know that everyone has problems. Especially when some people don't quite get it.
Trouble free and bubbly or trouble free and grouchy isn't how the world really is.
I do my best to have this be a guiding principle throughout my day, then I mess up,let someone derail me,then back on track hopefully without too much wreckage.