Many years ago, I coined the phrase "moving the truth" to describe what I thought was an integrity problem in my life. As I went on this quest to establish identity in my life and organize and define my core values, and write a personal code to hold myself accountable, one of the challenges I came up against was this idea that, man, there wasn't a day that went by that I wasn't moving the truth or lying. If you would've asked anybody who was close to me, friends, family, people that I worked with, people who knew me best, they wouldn't have said I was an out and out boldfaced liar. But I knew in my heart that in one way or the other, I was shifting the truth or moving the truth every day.
As I began to search my heart, I really discovered that for me, just feeling uncomfortable and just to get out of something that I didn't want to do, I had created this habit of moving the truth just to be more comfortable. And a little bit deeper and harder to deal with for me was when I began to feel like I wasn't enough, or I hadn't accomplished enough, and I wasn't the person that I wanted to be in life, I would move the truth. What I realized was doing all the work to define myself, understanding my core values, and really getting what purpose was in my life wasn't going to be valuable at all if I had an integrity or reliability problem. So I had to work hard at creating language, shining the light on those two spaces in my life, and getting practiced with my words so that I could eliminate the integrity or the reliability problem in my life so that I could become 100% of the person that I believed that I was created to be.
So that's my question for you today. Where in your life are you moving the truth? If you really understand identity and you really want your core values to be force multipliers in your life, then we have to work at this idea of reliability and identity and making sure that the words that come out of our mouth are connected to and held accountable by those values in our life.
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Jimmy Hensel
