Featured in I Love Creston Magazine - Apr, 2012
Alfred (Alfie) Seidl, Business Consultant and Life Coach

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Hello, and thank you for taking a few moments to read this article and maybe share it with your friends. Yes, I know it’s a busy world these days, what with updating your Facebook and Twitter pages, reading the latest issue of I Love Creston and all those other things which need doing.
However, it’s good to relax for a bit and read; you never know what you might learn and what good may come of it.
It has been said that knowledge must be applied to be useful, and love must be given to be of benefit. Not much good in knowing something if you don’t use it, and what good to love someone but never show nor tell them.
There are many attributes we humans have which perhaps too often we don’t stop and think
about. Perhaps if we did we might live more enriched and enhanced lives.
What about honesty? Is it something we just hope exists? Is it something we practise and make part of our daily living? Is honesty only talked about but no longer relevant and thus not used?
I’m sure we’ve all been talking with someone who at some point in the conversation used the phrase, “I’ll be honest with you.” Now isn’t that an interesting statement? Just what are they saying to you, that up until that point they have not been honest with you?
Perhaps they used it for emphasis, to give more credence to what was about to be spoken. Maybe they were trying to deliberately mislead you.
What about the phrases, “May I be honest with you” or “Let me be perfectly honest with you?” Are they asking your permission to be honest? Were they “imperfectly” honest with you before?
I don’t know about you, but I tend to get my guard up when I hear anyone use words or phrases like, “Let me be honest with you.” Not that I am naive, but I expect people to be honest with me, and themselves, when talking with me. In fact, I expect people to be honest with me in all dealings they have with me.
I think honesty, like courtesy and common sense, are required if we want to live in a civilized and caring society.
At times it seems that those in positions of leadership and trust have failed to provide good examples. Thus, some may think, ‘Well, if the ones at the top are doing it, why bother?”
Almost every day we read or hear about another top-end scandal in the business world or politics and even in law enforcement. Maybe, and perhaps inadvertently, we are all guilty of allowing things to become less than what we want them to be.
Perhaps honesty, courtesy, common sense and many other caring attributes have lost their importance in this world of instant messages and anonymous, unaccountable cyber-communications. Are we so busy following what is “going virile” that we have neglected what is integral to what we all really want? Have we lost sight of what is really important in daily living?
This morning I looked into the mirror and had a chat with the guy there. I try to do that every morning. When we make the time to think about our own actions we can make whatever adjustments and changes we want. In doing so we enrich and enhance our own lives, and the lives of those around us as well.
This day was granted to you. Make it the best you possibly can, for yourself and others.
For more information, Alfie Seidl can be reached by phone at 250-428-2750 or e-mail at a_netexecutive@hotmail.com.

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