Line up what you intend, say and do, and let your team see it
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds is an ancient Persian ethic still honoured by a living faith. This kit turns it, with truthfulness, personal choice and the record of Cyrus, into a practical integrity system for leaders of any faith or none.
- An e-book of about 10,300 words in 10 chapters, each with a scene, a method, a worked example and the file to open
- Two working spreadsheets: a practice workbook with a streak counter and say-do dashboard, and a Say-Do Integrity Ledger with kept-faith rate, error clocks and an inclusion check
- 6 fillable PDF forms, 45 scripts and messages, 29 AI prompts and 52 principle-of-the-week emails
- A 52-card practice deck, a team workshop guide with a charter, and a 12-week programme calendar
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What does good thoughts, good words, good deeds mean for leaders?
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds (humata, hukhta, hvarshta) is an ancient Zoroastrian ethic of aligning intent, speech and action. For leaders it means making precise promises, reporting truthfully and keeping them visibly. Bodhih Training's kit turns it into daily, weekly and monthly practices with a say-do ledger and templates.
Want the full free guide first? Read Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: Leadership Integrity Lessons.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
Promises that quietly lapse
You say yes in meetings, corridors and chats, sincerely. Half the promises have no date, and a week later people are chasing you. Nobody calls it dishonest; they just stop relying on your word.
Green reports with red insides
Every status looks fine until it suddenly doesn't. People shade the truth to protect each other, and the bad news arrives late, expensive and in front of the board.
Errors that hide
Someone spots a mistake and waits for the right moment. The error took a minute; the silence takes nine days, and the cost is in the silence.
Explanations instead of ownership
Reviews are full of what happened to the team and short on what the team decided. Blame drifts sideways and nothing changes.
Merged teams that don't feel merged
The buying team's way becomes the way. Valued practices vanish by calendar invitation, quiet sites go quieter, and whole offices get labelled.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Picture tomorrow morning. Before you open the inbox, you write three lines: what you intend, what you'll say, and the one deed that proves it. At 17:30 you count the promises due and kept, and you notice the gap while it is still small.
On Friday you open the team meeting with one error someone surfaced this week. As you thank the person who found it before anyone asks a question, notice how the room changes, and how next week two more people bring you something.
When the next merger or reorganisation lands, you open the Inclusion Check before you redesign anything. You ask each group what must survive. Imagine a site that has been silent for months telling you, in its own channel, what it needs.
Twelve weeks from now, whether you started with the morning intention or the Promise Ledger, you will have a kept-faith rate, an error log with shrinking clocks and a team pulse trend, and a team that knows your word means something.
22 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: the map of the kit
One-page map: the daily, weekly and monthly rhythm, which file to open for each leadership moment, your first hour and a 30/60/90-day plan.
Integrity Leadership Practice Workbook
Nine-sheet master workbook: settings, 18-principle library, daily morning-intention and say-do log with streak counter, weekly review with say-do ratio, situations log (thought, word, deed), monthly team pulse, 12-week programme tracker and a dashboard with a say-do trend chart.
Say-Do Integrity Ledger
The signature diagnostic: a promise ledger with a thought-word-deed check, kept-faith rate by month, an error log with days to surface and fix, a many-peoples inclusion check for merged or multicultural teams, and a dashboard with a kept-faith trend chart.
Thought, word, deed: morning intention (a week per page)
Fillable weekly page for the two-minute morning intention (think, say, do) on each working day, with a Friday look-back on where the three lined up and where they drifted.
Say-do check (a week per page)
Fillable evening say-do check for each working day: promises due, kept, renegotiated or missed, the gap between word and deed, and the first message to send tomorrow.
Truth review: an error we surfaced
Two-page fillable record for the weekly truth review: the error in plain facts, how fast it surfaced, the cause as 'what, not who', the fix, the prevention and who was thanked.
Choice point: an accountability decision sheet
Two-page fillable sheet for a hard decision: the honest options, what each costs, what you will be glad to have said, owning the choice, and a whole-record check before judging a colleague.
Many peoples: leading a merged or multicultural team
Two-page fillable planner for a merger, acquisition or multicultural team: each group's ways and needs, what must be kept or restored, how people prefer to raise concerns, and the monthly inclusion check.
Renewal reset: a new-year or new-quarter review
Two-page fillable review for a team reset at the new year, a new quarter or the end of the 12-week programme: an honest look back, keep, stop, start, promises to close and the next three commitments.
Leadership scripts and messages
45 exact-words scripts, emails and chat messages for precise promises, early renegotiation, honest reporting, surfacing errors, ownership, fair judgement, merged and multicultural teams and renewal, each with when to use it.
Facilitator's guide: the team integrity workshop
Facilitator's guide for a 90-minute and a half-day team workshop on thought, word and deed, honest reporting, surfacing errors and respect across groups: timings, slide outline, exercises, debrief questions and follow-up.
Team integrity charter: thought, word and deed
One-page team charter to adopt in the workshop: how we make and keep promises, how we report, how we surface errors, how we own choices and judge fairly, and how we respect every group in the team.
Principle of the week: 52 team emails
52 short team emails or chat posts (one per card), each with a subject line, one principle, one question and one action.
AI prompt pack for integrity-led leaders
29 tool-agnostic AI prompts grouped by leadership moment, each with what to paste in and what to check, plus privacy rules and a source-check rule for AI drafts.
Worked example pack: Kavita and Project Meridian
The main forms completely filled in for one composite leader: a morning-intention week, a say-do check, a truth review, a choice point with a whole-record check, a many-peoples plan and a renewal reset.
All principles on one page
The 18 principles of integrity-led leadership in plain words, each with what it does not mean, plus the daily engine.
Situation finder: if this happens, use this
Decision card: for each common integrity moment, the principle to use, the first move and the kit file to open.
About the sources, and common misreadings and mistakes
Card on the texts and public-domain translations used, how to read them and the honesty notes on Cyrus, plus the common misreadings and mistakes to avoid.
Good thoughts practice card deck
52 printable practice cards in four suits, one principle per card with a verbatim source line or an In plain words line, a question and a one-line action, plus a how-to page.
12-week programme calendar
47 calendar events for the 12-week programme: weekly card and email, the Friday truth review and weekly review, plus the ledger, status rewrite, choice point, inclusion check, workshop and renewal reset.
12-week programme task board import
29 programme tasks ready to import into Trello, Asana, Planner, Notion or Jira, with week, focus, task, file to open and status.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 22 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 67 pages
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, GoodNotes, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion
- Best for
- Managers, team leads, founders, heads of function, HR and L&D leaders who want integrity they can practise and measure
Thought, Word, Deed
The integrity triad as one alignment, with the two-minute morning intention and the three-minute evening say-do check.
Say-Do: Promises and the Ledger
Treat a spoken yes as a real agreement: precise promises, the Promise Ledger, early renegotiation and the kept-faith rate.
Asha: Truthful Reporting and Right Order
Asha as truth and right order at work: facts not adjectives, what may not happen, true numbers and checked AI drafts.
Surfacing Errors: The Weekly Truth Review
Two clocks for every error and a ten-minute weekly truth review that thanks the finder first and asks what, not who.
Candour: Making the Truth Safe to Say
The candour cycle from Herodotus's story of Cyrus and Croesus: invite it, receive it well, show what changed.
Choice: Accountability That Starts With Me
The Gathas' emphasis on each person's choice, turned into the choice point and the 'I decided' update.
Weigh the Whole Record
Integrity without perfectionism: judge on the whole record, check the system and clear your own debts of trust.
Cyrus and the Many Peoples
What the Cyrus Cylinder and Ezra record, read honestly, turned into ask, keep, restore and check for merged teams.
The Lie Is an Act, Not a People
Deception is an act, never a group's identity: catch labels, ask for incidents, fix systems, resist unfair rules.
Renewal and the 12-Week Programme
The renewal reset at the new year or quarter, and the full 12-week programme, workshop and charter.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: Introduction, 10 chapters, Conclusion and an appendix on the sources, with 49 short quotations from public-domain translations and fresh In plain words renderings
Spreadsheets
- Integrity Leadership Practice Workbook: settings, 18-principle library, daily morning-intention and say-do log with streak counter, weekly review, situations log, team pulse, 29-action programme tracker and dashboard
- Say-Do Integrity Ledger: promise ledger with thought-word-deed check, kept-faith rate by month, error log with days to surface and fix, many-peoples inclusion check and dashboard
Fillable PDF forms
- Thought, word, deed: morning intention (a week per page)
- Say-do check (a week per page)
- Truth review: an error we surfaced
- Choice point: an accountability decision sheet
- Many peoples: leading a merged or multicultural team
- Renewal reset: a new-year or new-quarter review
Word templates
- Leadership scripts and messages: 45 scripts, emails and chat messages
- Facilitator's guide: the team integrity workshop in 90-minute and half-day versions
- Team integrity charter: thought, word and deed
- Principle of the week: 52 team emails
- AI prompt pack: 29 tool-agnostic prompts with what to paste in and what to check
- Worked example pack: Kavita and Project Meridian, every main form filled in
Cheat sheets
- Start here: the map of the kit, first hour and 30/60/90 days
- All 18 principles on one page
- Situation finder: if this happens, use this
- About the sources, and common misreadings and mistakes
Print, calendar and import
- Good thoughts practice card deck: 52 cards plus a how-to page
- 12-week programme calendar (47 events) for Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar
- 12-week programme task board (29 tasks) for Trello, Asana, Planner, Notion or Jira
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- You will be able to start each day with a two-minute think, say, do intention and end it with a say-do check
- You will be able to make precise promises, renegotiate early and track a kept-faith rate by month
- You will be able to write status reports that state facts, what may not happen and the next update
- You will be able to run a ten-minute weekly truth review and shorten the time errors take to surface
- You will be able to invite candour and receive it well
- You will be able to own decisions with an 'I decided' update and judge colleagues on the whole record
- You will be able to lead a merged or multicultural team with a monthly inclusion check
- You will be able to run a renewal reset and a full 12-week integrity programme with your team
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
A taste of the Introduction
It is 08:40 on the first Monday of January in Bengaluru, and Kavita Rao is looking at a slide she wrote on Friday. It says the month-end close for December is green. Underneath, in a font size she chose on purpose, it says "minor timing items". The minor timing items are two unstarted bank reconciliations, an exchange-rate table that may be out of date, and a new Johannesburg team whose public holidays nobody put in the calendar. Kavita heads finance operations for a group that has just bought a rival, and her job, Project Meridian, is to merge teams in Bengaluru, Manchester, Manila and Johannesburg into one shared-services centre. At 10:00 she will present to the CFO. She knows what she thinks: the close is amber. She knows what the slide says: green. And she knows what she will do if she says nothing: spend Thursday night fixing it and hope nobody notices.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Integrity | A values poster and a code of conduct | A daily think, say, do practice and a ledger that counts promises kept |
| Reporting | RAG statuses that drift green | Facts, what may not happen and the next update, plus true-number checks |
| Errors | Post-mortems that look for a name | A weekly truth review, error clocks and 'what, not who' |
| Accountability | Blame or excuses | The choice point, 'I decided' updates and whole-record judgement |
| Merged teams | One group's way imposed | Ask, keep, restore, check, with a monthly inclusion check |
| Source and respect | Unsourced slogans and borrowed quotes | Verbatim public-domain lines, registered and checked, with honest notes and no ritual taught |
Made for you if…
- Managers and team leads whose good intentions keep turning into missed promises
- Founders and heads of function who need status reports and numbers they can trust
- Leaders running a merger, acquisition or multicultural team
- HR and L&D leaders building an integrity, speak-up or values programme
- Senior professionals who want a calmer, more consistent way to lead
- Leaders of any faith or none who value old wisdom presented with respect
Probably not for you if…
- Anyone looking for religious instruction, ritual or theology: this kit teaches none
- Leaders who want a scorecard to shame people: the tools are built for learning, leaders first
- Fraud investigations, disciplinary cases or legal disputes, which need HR, legal or compliance
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Write tomorrow's three lines tonight
Write what you intend, what you'll say and the one deed that proves it, and count your promises tomorrow evening. Whether you begin with the morning intention or the Promise Ledger, you will see quickly where your word and your work part company, and how to bring them back together.
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Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkWhat does good thoughts, good words, good deeds mean?
It is the English form of humata, hukhta, hvarshta, a three-part ethic from the Avesta, the ancient texts of Zoroastrianism. It asks that what you intend, what you say and what you do line up. The kit turns that into a morning intention, an evening say-do check and a ledger of promises.
Is this a religious book?
No. It is a leadership kit that draws on the ethics of a living faith, with respect. It teaches no ritual, belief or theology and makes no claims about the divine, and it is written for leaders of any faith or none.
Which translations do you use, and why?
Every quotation is copied word for word from public-domain translations: L. H. Mills's Yasna and Gathas (1887), James Darmesteter's Vendidad (1880), G. C. Macaulay's Herodotus (1890), R. W. Rogers's Cyrus Cylinder (1912) and the World English Bible. We use them so that no modern translator's work is copied. The 54 quotations are registered and checked; everything else is Bodhih Training's original writing.
Is the Cyrus Cylinder the first charter of human rights?
That popular claim is disputed by scholars, and the British Museum, which holds the cylinder, notes that it says nothing of human rights. It is a royal inscription in a Babylonian tradition. The kit quotes what it says about restoring homes and returning people, and is honest that it is also propaganda.
How do I measure my say-do ratio?
Each evening, type the promises due and the promises kept in the Daily Log sheet; the workbook calculates your daily and weekly ratio. For the team, the Say-Do Integrity Ledger tracks every promise and calculates a kept-faith rate by month, counting early renegotiation as keeping faith.
How do I build a culture where people surface errors?
Run a ten-minute weekly truth review: the leader shares an error first, the team names one error surfaced that week, the finder is thanked before any question, and the discussion asks what, not who. The Error Log measures days to surface and days to fix so you can see the culture change.
Will this help with a merger or a multicultural team?
Yes. Chapter 8, the Many-Peoples form and the Inclusion Check sheet help you ask each group how it works, keep what must survive, restore what change took and check every month, without stereotyping any culture.
How do I measure my starting point?
If you want an outside view, AssessAll offers Ethical Leadership and Judgment, What You're Like to Work With, and Team Building and Collaboration assessments. They are separate products; the kit's own dashboards and Team Pulse track your practice over twelve weeks.
Can I turn this into a development plan?
Yes. Many leaders carry the habits that stick into a personal development plan. You can build one on Jobulary, a separate product, using your Weekly Review notes and say-do numbers as evidence; its guide to if-then plans pairs well with the morning intention.
Does it replace HR, legal or compliance advice?
No. The kit is educational. Fraud, misconduct, safety issues, harassment, discrimination and regulated disclosures follow your organisation's formal process and local law: talk to your HR, legal or compliance team.
How does it relate to other Bodhih kits?
It goes deep on integrity, truthfulness and respect across groups. For ten traditions applied to personal life see Old Wisdom for Modern Days; for hard feedback see the Difficult Conversations Kit; for Xenophon's idealised Cyrus see Xenophon's Leadership Lessons.
How much does Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds cost?
₹1,299 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $34 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
