Morality in Your Professional and Personal Life

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines morality as simply right or wrong behavior. Although this sounds too simple, this involves values, integrity and honesty among other things.

In your professional life do you embrace the values of your company or do you just go along to get along? Are your cultural values in conflict with the real you? Perhaps your salary dictates the path you take. Involved in all this is the expression of your everyday lifestyle. In this time of turmoil, perhaps you stay under the radar just to keep your job. 

That is a helpless feeling and one that often influences and determines your behavior.

Ask yourself if this behavior also creeps into your personal life? If you have a family, are you teaching them to speak the truth honestly and without reservation? Transparency is required to lay your belief system out on the table.

Ignorance is bliss but thinking that you can hide under a rock and let the world drift by is like telling yourself that birds don't fly. Each day is brand new and you need to decide your course and walk that road. Sometimes that is very difficult, but so is blindness to situations around you.

Companies that are successful depend on everyone to join with the honest mission of good faith, good honest heads and hearts. Although I am not an idealist, I have devoted my life to helping others and that is not always pretty, but it works. Changes are made from your dedication to the "right" behavior not the rhetoric of the mindless few who choose to dislodge this behavior by their dark and morbid ideas. This serves no purpose except to energize people and blind them to the truth.

Consider your personal life the most important part of your well being. Walking with those who historically have, through their respectful and daily lives, demonstrated behavior that is not boastful but humble, is the epitome of a life well spent.

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Gloria M. Reiske is an MSW, LCSW with more than thirty years experience in education, administration, social work, and coaching. She has authored many articles and is published in local media, having written a men and grief manual for training purposes throughout Virginia and an article for children and grief. Email me at gloriareiske@blogspot.com and watch for this article on my business Facebook page.