Keeping Your Word

Keeping Your Word

In life you are only as good as your word. Some people are unable to keep their word. For example, it could be something as simple as committing to be somewhere and not showing up or being expected to be somewhere and then cannot be contacted.

One thing I have learned is there are only two types of people: those who keep their word and those who do not. What type of person are you? Are you the person that when your name comes up people say, “Who knows if he’ll show up. We can’t count on him.” Is that the type of person you want to be?

Today we are going to take a hard look at ourselves and be honest. If you are a person that keeps his word, great, keep doing it. But if you are the type of person that does not keep his word, make a change. The one thing I have noticed with people who do not keep their word is usually their entire life is chaos. Not to generalize, but from what I have seen, these people tend to lie which causes people to lose trust, and typically, they bounce around from job to job over the years and end up pushing 40 without having established themselves in a career.

Keeping your word has a lot more to do than just showing up on time. The principle we are teaching is integrity. People that do not keep their word often fool others by giving terrible excuses or using a false story to make others feel sorry for them. The sad thing is that people buy into their lies. In most cases, these people are nearing middle-aged and have very few family and friends because they burned most of their bridges. We only hope that you decide to be a person that keeps his word and when you come in contact with someone that does not, do not waste your time on them. Their patterns will more than likely never change and either you will be affected by their excuses, or you will move on and rise above.