SUCCESS VISA (Part Nine)

Continued from Part Eight....

1.  The attitude of honesty and integrity: If you look around the world today, there is so much confusion everywhere. The sense of morality and values are increasingly being lost. You see people trying to fake it in a bid to make it. You see people playing games in order to make names in the society. Betrayals, backstabbing, breach of contracts, manipulations, and maneuverings, corruption and all sort of societal vices plaguing humanity. You see people offering substandard products and services packaged in well-beautified containers all in a bid to make more profit. They run over people in a bid to increase their turn over. There is deception everywhere and it is now very difficult to know who to trust. People now dealing with high level of skepticism, suspicion, and distrust all because of where we've found ourselves as a society.

True, there are some people that seem to be making it despite faking it. But you know something, if you are for real or not, the world knows. When you break the hedge, even if the serpent doesn't bite now, it will bite later.

To really succeed in life, you must deal with clean hands - you must be a person of integrity. Your ways must be straight. Your character must be unquestionable and incongruency with acceptable norms and values. You may not be a perfect human, but at least, you must be trustworthy. Remember, any worthwhile goal you are to pursue in life is supposed to be a solution to the problems facing humanity and not to create more problems. Meanwhile, the people whose problem you are trying to solve must first believe in you and trust you before they can entrust you with their life issues. For this to happen, you must be a person of honesty and integrity. People will only submit and buy into your vision to the extent they trust you and have confidence in you.

It is not only in big deals that honesty is required. It covers every aspect of your daily living. Integrity is not developed when you get to the top; it is what takes you to the top. If you can't be trusted with little, you cannot be trusted with much.

Remember, the life of honesty and integrity is not the easy one. It is always unpopular at first. It attracts criticisms, attacks and oppositions especially when you dwell among people living double standard lives. But however it is, you have to maintain your standard and someday, people will begin to know, accept and respect you for who you are. At times, being a person of honesty and integrity makes you odd and different in the crowd, but that's the beginning of making a difference in your world. Don't be moved by the immediate gratification you will get for compromising standards. You may play pranks on the people now and receive kudos still. But with time, the people will understand the meaning of the riddles and evict you from the middle of their lives - a position you manipulatively took by not being frank. If you have integrity, the world pays you for it. But if you don't, you pay for it. Be fulfilled!

(To be continued)

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