Fish hooks

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Thought for the day as I head to the airport.
There is only one way to not have your life full of fish hooks. Don’t create an environment where you attract fishermen.

I read with much sadness the people in my industry and others who lie, cheat and make “commercial” decisions, (aka lying), in the interests of making a buck.

We have bankrupt developers building new buildings having left creditors owed millions, companies stealing information from other companies because they don’t have anything decent themselves to sell, politicians defending themselves as they face 40 charges of corruption, a convicted drug dealer saying he is innocent, the list goes on.

So if these people would pursue honesty and integrity in their lives and their businesses they wouldn’t end up with all these fish hooks.

You have to decide what is the moral basis for your life and pursue it with your whole heart.

I had someone yesterday wanting to do business with Massive Action because they found no fish hooks in me or my company. That was the greatest compliment they could pay me. Sure stuff goes wrong and sometimes you may have to use legal action to defend yourself etc., but that should be a last resort that happens to you once or twice if ever in your life. Integrity doesn’t attract this sort of problem, selfishness, dishonesty and self hatred do.

So if you find yourself up to your armpits in alligators just think about whether you have been breeding them inadvertently through your business and life principles.

I love Dr Coveys expression of a principled life being about finding “true north”. There are things that matter in life, laws you can’t break, powers you can’t ignore.

So I encourage you to choose……
Philippians 4:8
“whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.”