How Honesty Simplifies Your Feel Great Journey

There are many facets to simplifying. As the years go by, we often don't realize how complicated our lives are until we have difficulty keeping track of it all. Our minds were not made to focus on so much. We have 'one track minds.' You've probably heard that phrase before in different contexts. But one facet of simplifying that I haven't seen anything written about is honesty.

We have gotten to the point that we accept the fact that people lie and that is okay. We laugh at it when we see it on television. We don't even think about it sometimes. But dishonesty takes an incredible amount of energy, both physically and mentally. And it really complicates our lives. If we are dishonest without thinking about it, we don't realize how much work it takes. Here is a blog that I think might interest you. It's called Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility and Truth, weighty words but worth investigating.

Something that is inconsistent in most of us is that we think it is okay for us to lie (or at least we don't think about it, we just do it) but we expect other people to be honest with us. Stop and think about it. Do you get upset when you find out that someone lied to you? I do.

Why do people lie? From what I've seen, most people lie to protect themselves from a perceived threat. An actual threat may or may not exist, which doesn't really matter. They think it does. So they lie. If you read the articles in the blog I mentioned above with the label 'lies', you will see how one person struggled with getting out of the pit of lying.

Something else to think about: What about half-lies (or half-truths, an oxymoron if I ever heard one) where we deliberately tell only part of the story to lead the listener to believe something that is not true. Wouldn't it just be easier to not say anything at all? If you go to Simplifying Words, there is more discussion there.