Art: chazal have already told us “kul haposel, posel es atzmo” which is essentially what you wrote in your last paragraph.
My Rav must have gone to the same Yeshiva as “Rabbi finkel here in Chicago” (I never heard of him, but he sounds like a wise man), he always tells us, there should be one yeardstick with which you measure everything you do. Would it be a nachas ruach to hashem.