Trustworthy Habits - Monthly Mentor - Volume 13, Issue 8
Trustworthy Habits - Monthly Mentor - Volume 13, Issue 8
Trustworthy Habits
By Joe Hunt
Everywhere youturn these days you hearsomeone ask, “Why doeseverything have to be so complicated?”
Well maybe we’re guilty of making our lives more complex than they need to be. Perhaps the real culprit is controllable if we live by some simple rules. These 10 tenets, I believe, will make a big difference.
1. Show up on time.
If you are chronically late, you take two big risks:
1) you may miss the most important thing that happened; and 2) you may never catch up to the group.
2. Listen.
It is not an accident that God gave us one mouth and two ears. When we fail to listen, we shut off fully half of our learning potential.
3. Never hide the truth.
Lies dig deep holes. Recovering from mistrust always takes more energy than constant honesty.
4. Don’t look back.
Only historians have a legitimate need to look back-ward more than forward.
5. Avoid unhealthy choices.
How many people do you know whose life is complicated by poor health because they continue to make unhealthy choices? It’s many more than the number traceable to accidents or unknown causes.
6. Be accountable.
The most important ability is accountability. Nothing happens until someone steps forward and says, “I’ll do it.”
7. Don’t make excuses.
Reputationdoes not crash, itcrumbles. The moreyou make excuses,the more you are likely to believe them.
8. Deliver what you promise.
Without honesty,there is no trust.Without trust, there isno confidence.Without confidence,there is no progress.
9. Don’t try to be perfect.
More is lost by waiting for perfection than by steadily moving forward.
10. Change before you must.
Remember the six words that alteredthe face of the earth...”But Noah, itisn’t even raining?”
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