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Honesty,
is being fair and just in character and behaviour, not stealing or cheating.
It must be one of the harder values to apply across all aspects of your
life, particularly the workplace. The pressure to achieve and deliver to
time, or else, generated within many workplaces, can often mean the person
delivering an unwanted message, being made to suffer as a consequence. (A
sign that others need to improve their application of personal values.)
Additionally the temptation to take advantage of a trusting employer, or
using the resources of a not so generous employer for your own purposes
because "they owe it to me", can be hard to resist. In communications it
is easy to want to tell "white lies" to save hurt, seemingly a conflict
of values. Not an easy circumstance to deal with as the enquirer
is unlikely to have considered the possible answers prior to asking their
question and may not appear to have the strength to take the honest answer.
In this instance considering long term implications of your response, and
heeding advice from your committee should provide you with a right course
of action.
Contrary to popular
belief, this is a value where you will benefit most from its application.
Your increase in self esteem by being honest could initially be seen as
poor return for your trouble when you see those around you appearing to
benefit from their dishonest actions. What you do not see is the weight
they have to carry through their lives from knowing what they are doing
is dishonest. They may have many material possessions but their life will
not have true happiness and contentment. They will be unable to trust
those around them or enjoy loving relationships and other facets of a
good life.
Thereis another benefit to living by personal values and that is, "if
you really need something and you ask for it you get it".
There is a word of warning with this, you have to quite specific about
what you want or else you will have some funny surprises as to what turns
up in response to your request.
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