Maybe it just a side effect of a world of legally binding documents, but many times it seems that people in general desire to require that those with whom they interact must be trustworthy, but do not require that trait in themselves. And then someone becomes irate when someone else fails to live up to the imposed value. All of this leads to more degradation of moral and honorable behavior.
However, at this time I do not want to focus on another person's likelihood of deserving the label of being a trustworthy individual. I want to focus on self. Yes, for this moment at least, let each of us be self-focused. In this introspection, review this question: Do you honorably keep
every agreement you make?
Make sure that all that you say you will do, even (especially) the small stuff. If you tell your spouse that on the way home from work you will pick up a gallon of milk, do you do it? Or do you get home and apologize saying you forgot? Do you use your time at work to the best of your ability in accomplishing what you are paid to do? Or do you look for ways to avoid doing your work when your boss is not around? Do you follow the speed limit all of the time? Or just when there is a cop with a radar gun on the side of the road?
There are a hundred ways every day in which people trust us to do what we have agreed to do. As we go about our day, pay attention to things that you are being trusted to do. On a scale from one to ten with ten as perfectly trustworthy and one as not trustworthy at all, how would you honestly rate yourself?
Does being
that trustworthy really matter? Well, think about all of the people that you trust throughout the day. Is it
that important to you for them to fulfill what they have agreed to do?
Be trustworthy.
