As an entrepreneur building a business, you need to respect yourself and surround yourself with people you respect. Do not lie, steal or cheat. Make your word your bond an always stand by your word. When you’re wrong, own up to it and make good on the deal. Treat others as you’d want to be treated.
JANA MATTHEWS
Do you stand by your ethics at all costs?
We are often quick to make judgments and decisions that make our businesses operate.
In the course of making these decisions, sometimes we are called upon to make a decision that may well be in our personal or our business’ best interest, but would not be an ethically sound choice to be making.
When this happens, we are forced to choose between being altruistic, or doing the right thing.
They often say that we are most accurately whom we genuinely are, when we operate in a scenario in which no one else would know what choices we have made.
In these moments in our lives, when there is only our own reflection in the mirror, to truly know whether or not we have done the right thing, we are all the more internally transparent as to our values, our morals, and our overall sense of duty and responsibility.
Even when we feel as if no one is watching, there is always the universal arbiter, karma. Karma redistributes the moral equivalence of anything that we ourselves might be deserving for the positive and the negative actions in our lives.
How is that possible? How exactly does karma work?
Karma is a concept originating from Hinduism and Buddhism, and it refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect. It is the idea that the consequences of a person’s actions, both good and bad, will affect their future experiences. In simpler terms, karma suggests that one’s actions in this life or previous lives will influence their destiny or fate. Positive actions are believed to bring positive consequences, while negative actions may result in undesirable outcomes. The concept of karma has been adopted and interpreted in various ways across different cultures and belief systems.
When we are fully ready to understand and appreciate the overall balance in these situations, we might be more willing and desirous of always taking the high road, if for no reason, then in our choice not to, we are creating a negative karmic balance to be reconciled.
Perhaps all of that sounds like New Age mumbo-jumbo to you and perhaps it is, or perhaps it’s more accurate than any of the other potential definitions which we might have been uncovered in the course of our lives.
Given the potential for a negative act or behavior to come with reciprocal repercussions, wouldn’t it make greater sense for us to err on the side of doing the right thing, and acting in accord with a code of ethics that would make us truly proud, rather than usurping a moment in which we feel we would ultimately prevail, without recourse?
If you are continuously walking the talk, you are unquestionably on the path to a much greater success.
Happy Friday!
Brian Weiner 