BEST WAY TO BE
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Harkening to my grandmother’s wall plaque, “Ve get too soon oldt, und too late schmart.”
This secret weapon we all have, telling truth, ought not to be a secret for anyone, yet so few people use its pure variety; it is easy to see why so few understand its magical qualities.
Telling truth, the act of open disclosure, building trust.
Unfortunately, too many people never start on that level playing field of truth-telling and openness, which creates a hurdle few get over. Looking back, I’ve my share of those experiences, and they don’t end well, because they didn’t start out healthy.
Truth can please, shock, anger, or amaze. Truth breaks down walls, bridges canyons of divide, leaps tall buildings with a single bound. I don’t mean telling your every detail to anyone who’ll listen but instead revealing details that matter to someone who matters.
The comfort level required is no small matter.
It can be tricky.
Securities regulators, looking out for us to make sure we have sufficient details to inform our decisions and know everything we need to know about someone before investing – use this phrase: full, true, and plain disclosure.
No doubt many personal relationships can’t meet that test starting out, and those that don’t start out that way never escape their initial folly.
We need reminders that vagueness, half-truths, partial stories and withholding salient information or leaving out the back-story rarely produces optimum results.
I wish I’d learned that better and younger. Then I’d have fewer sad stories to tell – more joyous ones too.
The best way to be is to be the best way we can be …
Reader feedback:
The 4th of May is the answer... May it be with you ;-), JB, Edmonton, AB
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