If They Believe It - Then It's True

I once worked for someone that had some unusual business practices.  They did claim he was my boss, but well, a boss is generally a leader with integrity and this guy was anything but that.  Regardless of what I thought about him as a boss, he had one statement that just grated on my nerves.

His statement was that if they believe it, then it's true.  In other words, whatever it was you were trying to tell the client, if you get them to believe it, then it was true.  It didn't matter how outlandish the statement was or even if it was backed up by fact.

While this boss thought that those under him and the clients accepted his statements, I believe many saw through his charades.  His integrity seemed to be held high by those he answered to, but many didn't see it the same way.

If you don't have your integrity, what do you have?  It is one of the currencies of being human.  If people can't trust you, then what you say truly doesn't matter.  You may think it does.  Many may think that it does, but in the end, your word holds little weight.

Without going into specifics, we can see evidence of this in just about every place in the world and in just about every way known to us.  Garbage and statements are spewed all day long as if it is true.  Some buy it.  Some scream against it.  Some just have no desire to be a part of it or embrace it or listen to it.

Purported to be true...

On social media, nothing has to be confirmed as being true.  Tweets make people believe it and therefore, it is purported to be truth.  It doesn't matter if anything has been fact-checked.  Even if something has been invalidated as untrue, it doesn't matter.  The social media posts just keep getting shared over and over.

These days, it is hard to tell what is true and what isn't.  With all the fake news reports, I pretty much question everything.  I never pass on a link that I can't in some way verify.  Maybe one gets through every now and then, but for the most part, you won't see me be part of the propaganda machine.

Discern that which is true...

If we listen with our mind to our body, we can often discern that which is true and that which is not.  However, most of the human population has a mind that is disconnected from their bodies.  They don't feel much, let alone have a comprehension of what the body says to them about truth.

I personally believe it is a horrible way for someone to live by a code where they just spew stuff everyday and yet it cannot be backed up by fact.  There are far too many that gobble it up as if it is the last morsel of food they will ever eat.  The entire practice degrades all of humanity.

If you want to have your life matter or be taken by your word, then find your integrity.  Make your statements count.  Make your sharing count in social media.  Make it so critical that if someone hears something from you, they can almost take it to the bank because it will be real and substantial.

The world needs people with integrity to step up and take this world in a direction that offers to help one another, lifts one another up and bring us all together.  There is too much fake reality in this world and it is not helping us.  It is hindering us from advancing on to greater heights.  There are serious problems in the world, and try not to be a part of them, because the world needs people who are human, not fake.

---

Blog Post And Images (c) 2017 by Don Shetterly

• Permission required before any part of this blog post is reprinted, reworded or used in any form. 
• You are welcomed to share the LINK to this blog post.  

---

Does Your Word Mean Anything?

More and more these days, we are showing our true colors to everyone and we are not always realizing that we do this.  Often, there are many that will say one thing and then totally act as if they never said it.  This seems to be the pattern of how the "people in the media" do things and it is carrying over to everyone from every walk of life.

Does your word mean anything?  Do you say one thing today and then act as if you've never said it or that you didn't mean what you said?  Maybe you make a statement and then try to parse the words out in 50 different ways, focusing on the thought that you didn't mean for it to be there.

Yes, I know it is possible to try and explain things away later and make it sound as if our words were misconstrued, but when you say something with a particular intent, trying to go back on it later with a different meaning causes a trust discrepancy.

Growing up, I lived in a house where doublespeak was practiced.  What would be said one time, would mean something totally different the next time.  It was like the same statement or word would have two different meanings and there was no way you could figure that out at the time.  It could be used as a weapon against you regardless of how it was used.

Which one is true?

I see people who talk against or publicly endorse others, but then they switch their positions as if they were changing their socks.  Their word means hardly anything because how do you trust what they first said about a person or what they are now saying.  Which one is true?  If they changed their minds on the person that easily, how do you know if what they say will mean anything in the future.

Sure, I realize that sometimes after further evaluation we see things different than when we made particular statements.  However, I think we are too quick to speak and we really need to think more before we speak.  Just to speak up and get noticed and claim power is not a reason for endorsing or criticizing someone else.

If we want our word to mean anything, we have to be more careful of what we say.  If we are freely speaking, but not thinking, our word will not mean anything to anyone.  Yes, it might make for good publicity and getting in the spotlight, but long term, your base of support will be built upon loose sand.

 

 
Doublespeak is not helpful to anyone in the long term and while you might fool some of the people some of the time, you won't fool all of them all of the time.  Yes, that's a cliche', but it is so true.  People can and do see through doublespeak and the only way for your word to mean anything is to mean what you say.

Our word is what others hear from us.  If it is not backed up by a compassionate heart and a caring mind, it becomes as noise in the wind.  If it is not backed up by consistency, it becomes nothing more than a wave that comes into the shore and leaves again.  May we learn how to make our word mean something so we can help elevate humanity across this planet.

#Word 

---

Blog Post And Images (c) 2016 by Don Shetterly

• Permission required before any part of this blog post is reprinted, reworded or used in any form. 
• You are welcomed to share the LINK to this blog post.  

---