In Business / August-September 2008
Business Integrity
By: Anna Ripley
I believe that all of us can be honest if we really want to; although, it is not something that comes naturally to us. Because we are selfish creatures, we are apt to only think about ourselves and what we can get out of the situation. Well if all of us take that attitude, we are in a pitiful shape.
I am a business owner and I have purposed in my business that I will have integrity and honesty in my dealing with my customers. I will work to the end to make sure that what I say, is what I will do, and what I sell I will stand behind.
I will not sell a product that I can’t get behind 100% and know that the quality is good for me and for my customers. So many times we think that we need to sell anything in order to make a dollar, well that is not true for me.
I will not sell certain things, simply because I need to make a dollar. It is important to me to be able to tell my customers that I use what I sell. That. I cook with and give what I sell to my family as gifts. This way, they know what I am doing is of importance to me. I believe that integrity is short sited for so many people today and we just go along with what someone else is doing. Well that just not good enough for me. When I stand before God I want him to say, “WELL DONE MY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT”.
All of us have the opportunity to be honest and to have integrity, but will we? I am just one person who has decided to live a life that shows my ethics and to live what I say I believe, and to do what I say I will do, what about you?
You can decide today to treat others as you want to be treated, or to talk to others as you would want to be talked to, or live your life doing unto others as you would want them to do onto you. Now what would happen if all of us as of this day decided to have integrity in our dealing with us, not just in our business life, but in our everyday life as well?
A few years ago I allowed my circumstances to dictate whether or not I would be honest in a situation, this is the story: We went into a grocery store and the cashier forgot to ring a large item, and I didn’t tell her that she had forgotten to ring the item. So I paid her what she said I owed and I left the store. My husband said we didn’t pay for that piece of meat and you knew that the cashier didn’t charge us. He said, “We should go back and pay for it now.” I said, “Absolutely not it was her mistake not mine.”
Well not the end of the story, we argued about this for sometime and it really caused a great deal of confusion in our marriage.
The thing that came out of this was, we agreed that from that moment on we would not allow our needs to dictate our integrity. You see, we had just gotten married and our money was very tight. I tried to rationalize that maybe that was a blessing from God. Well of course you know that God will not give us a stolen blessing. So we agreed that if someone gave us too much we would tell them and give back the overage, or if they owed us we would tell them and get back what was owed us, and I can truly say that from that time forward we have tried to live our lives using that philosophy. We have chosen to have integrity
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