How do we maintain our integrity in our current world climate?

Integrity is fading away in a world that people will do anything to make a buck, gain an office or find fame.  Businesses cut corners and lower quality while raising prices, celebrities go by the phrase no publicity is bad publicity and our leaders make promises they never intend to keep.

Direct sales has a bad name because of the many scams and pyramid schemes out there , not to mention those who operate their businesses using deceptive advertising and promises of lots of money for doing nothing, but putting their automatic system in place.

We see the lack of integrity in our media everyday as the news no longer reports with an unbiased eye to what is going on and now reports using a political agenda to vet their stories.  We have fake news sites, so much so that Facebook has had to put procedures in place to ferret them out and inform people.

Our political leaders twist and omit facts in order to deceive the public about what is in their best interest.  They use scare tactics instead of facts in order to get the people to follow them.  They can be caught in lie after lie and people still vote for them.

Sports figures, movie stars and musicians are all over the magazines, reporting on their bad behavior and our children hold them as role models.

So how do we maintain our own integrity in a world where it seems that you can't get ahead by doing so?

We start at home.  We do what we say we will do.  We keep our promises to our friends and families. We are honest with ourselves and others.  Then we turn around apply it to our career and business life.

We maintain our integrity in business by following through on our promises.

We maintain our integrity by being honest in our advertising and promotions.

We maintain our integrity by offering the best customer service we can.

We maintain our integrity by putting people above money.

We maintain our integrity by not poaching other peoples prospects and customers.

 We maintain our integrity by asking to use other distributors ideas for promotion and advertising.

We maintain our integrity by admitting when we don't know something.

We maintain our integrity when we admit when we are wrong.

Our integrity is what keeps our reputation from becoming tarnished.  When we have a solid reputation then people are more likely to refer friends and family to us and continue on as customers.  Integrity matters even in a world where it doesn't seem like it.