2009: Enter with Honor

Lies, secrets and silence are out. 2009 will be the year of honorable living. The old idea of honor where a man’s “word’ sufficed without any guarantee failed us and became a defining ending in 2008. With so many trusts broken and disgraced individuals who left a worldwide thread of victims from their webs of deceit many now enter a new chapter harmed and mistrusting.

It will take a lot to earn back the trust between people, friends, community leaders and our government. Taking someone at their word is passé. You can no longer just get away with a statement of “just trust me” or “I would never lie to you” or “I won’t lose your money.” Man and their word have lost all credibility as the year closes.

Habitual liars have fleeced America and the world at large. It was a way of life this past decade. We became entrenched in the get rich quick schemes and along the way lost our reasoning abilities and conscious awareness. We bought into the fantasies that in time everything would continue to have this growth on paper from which we could legitimize our spending and continue to borrow from the future to pay for the present.

The subject of truth and the foundation from which we must build in 2009 will not come easy. We have become great liars and great believers in the liars. There will be nothing simple about the path and work it will take to live in truth and honor moving forward. The truth is not one thing or a system it is complex and in many cases relies on an entire group, community, company, family etc to all play a part. Within any one entity if one is a liar or less honorable the others will fall with him. n
Lies are usually attempts to make everything easier and with accelerated results to a goal. The lies we have been told and believed or shared and started have used some parts of truth that legitimized the lie. The recent discovery process of so many lies and victims has hardly left any honorable person untouched.

The life we all want and deserve will require a layer of trust to fully recover from this year of damages. It is not all doom and gloom the possibilities are still endless as we embark on repairing the cracks in our foundations and rebuild from the good and true. Closing a chapter on the liars and drama will give us more energy to create. This will be the year of a hundred questions. Be a part of this recovery and the solution for 2009.