Honest

Honest

By Eileen Rachman & Sylvina Savitri. (Compass, Saturday, 16 January 2010)

We often think honestly is an attribute, one aspect of personality. Many institutions and organizations that carry out assessment, giving instructions to us for in-depth 'review' honesty of employees or prospective employees. As one aspect of personality, we can check on the honesty with not willing to link or never someone of corruption, fraud in the work. The question is, if only limited scope meant that only the 'honesty'?
Maybe since childhood until today, have hundreds or even thousands of times we heard the advice to act and act honestly. This message can be too simple and if we are careful not to slip by, forgotten. However, if we want to pause for a moment and think about it, this advice might be to change the whole outlook and even the meaning of our lives. Are not we will feel great relief when can say honestly? Do not we realize that sometimes contain honest internal forces that causes us not be shaken even desperate and have the attitude 'nothing to loose? We just can not patted his chest, accept ourselves, to overcome frustration, to appreciate the gift of life when we are honest with ourselves, the environment, organization and nation?

Fertilize dialogue with himself.

We ourselves are aware that we often deny the conflict, attitudes, and even thoughts themselves. No convey the problems we face with the reason does not want to make others difficult. Not reported irregularities in solidarity on the grounds that doing the wrong friends. By making repeated justification, the more convinced we finally did "lie" is tightly As with the truth. Consequently difficult inner dialogue going on, and the barometer aka "gut ceck" honesty that comes from self-clogged.
In our daily lives as adults is to diligently questioned the reasons for taking action, and not just trapped in a situation where we make our attitudes and actions automatic routine We do need to question why I defend this position? Why I reject notch instruction when it is clearly wrong and harmful? Why do I believe or not believe in my boss?
Strength "gut check" This really is shaping the individual personality. We may not have ability to perform 'different' and characters, especially when facing a tough situation, say slander, accusations, or the temptations of office. Strong characters, like Mahatma Gandhi in the talk, argue, reject or take a position, so was guided by a strong ethical barometer. Ethical attitudes constructed from woven behavior, values and strong beliefs are evaluated every time. Consistency and self awareness which is the base of the decline of the impartiality that should be dynamically alive within the individual.

Beat "self-Interest"

Any small child usually has instilled the value of honesty in him. He must know that lying, cheating, was not well. But, why the community is now often exposed dishonesty is astounding, even occurs in the State presidents superpower, as Nixon and Clinton? We'll see, individualism the community development followed by the development of "self-Interest" rapid. We are used and no longer responds loudly while watching people chase money and profits, rather than fighting for the responsibilities and interests of many. We are even skeptical of institutions in community service are also a lot of reality that is not "clean".
We see that honesty was not able to escape our conscious efforts to overcome personal self-interest. We see that honesty is not just telling the truth and to consider right and wrong, but the practice maturity, so read the movements of a person and mentally. The higher the roles and responsibilities that we waistband, in groups, and institutional environment, we need to fully realize that the heavier weight also claims to show maturity, to realize their roles and responsibilities to promote the interests of the public we serve.

Honesty Work In Progress

Question: "Am I 100% honest?", Can we immediately responded with a do not, we would never violate the traffic lights, cheat, charging personal expenses to the company or achievements add to the presentation or any of our curriculum-vitae. However, we certainly will be keeping our attitudes and actions while in front of children, grandchildren or subordinates, as well as people who we would like to teach honesty and bequeath the noble values of the people we love. This proves that we are able Miniature our approach, both rationally and emotionally to the situation. Honesty is not something that is deep in our personality, to not be traced. All the movements, expression and decision-we can clearly demonstrate honesty.
Honesty is a value that can not be static, it develops in line with the conflict complex situation and self-control transparency and that will help us to avoid actions that far from the truth. Individuals, that especially leadership must realize that he needs to create transparency in the system to travel around the value of honesty still growing. If the situation is severe, a leader can still show the commitment, trustworthy and loyal, we see he will "rank up" in the quality of honesty.
Honesty seems to be the life of an individual target, let alone a leader, because this is the main capital in decision-making and become a powerful shield in the political arena. Only with this power a leader was not shaken by his 'Self-Interest "and it will be known widely with respect.