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Internet Statistics

 ABOUT LIES

Most people lie to others once or twice a day and deceive about 30 people per week.

The average is 7 times per hour if you count all the times people lie to themselves.

We lie in 30 to 38% of all our interactions.

College students lie in 50% of conversations with their mothers.

- 10,000,000 people lie to the IRS each year.

- 80% of us lie on our resumes.

- 70% of all doctors lie to insurance companies.

- 100% of dating couples surveyed lied to each other in about a third of their conversations.

- 20% - 30% of middle managers surveyed had written fraudulent internal reports.

-95% of participating college students surveyed were willing to tell at least one lie to a potential employer to win a job, and 41% had already done so.

-We are lied to about 200 times each day.

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Text Box: If The Truth Hurts… Lie?
Truth is reality.  The truth allows us to clearly see and better deal with the world.   A lie is unreal.  A lie confuses our minds and we are less able to determine the correct courses of action and make wise decisions.  
 
To Be Brutality Honest
What if telling the truth meant that you’d have to move out of the place you love, or leave a great paying job that you like.  Would you lie?   If telling the truth meant that you might lose a valued relationship with your spouse, partner, family or friend, would you lie?  What if telling the truth meant the loss of your livelihood?  Would you withhold information or purposely deceive to maintain your status quo? 
Is honesty always the best policy?
I can remember hearing my parents’ say, “If you had just told the truth there wouldn’t have been any punishment” yeah right.  From a very early age we can learn that lying is easier than telling the truth.  But how does a child learn to lie?  I believe children learn the same way as adults.  From experience.   When a parent or caregiver yells at a child in a threatening tone, “Did you do that?  If prior experiences with that threatening tone are associated with an unpleasant consequence like a butt whipping, getting grounded, or other negative repercussions, that child may raise their eyebrows in wide-eyed innocence, shrug and say, “It wasn’t me”.    As children get older we teach them to lie by saying things like…she’s only 3 when the child is 4 for a reduced rate.  Or sneaking that popcorn and candy into the movie, or using an address to get your child in a better school.  Children know their address.  Then we have the nerve to be appalled when our children bold face lie to us.  Adults, classify lies to fit into our social and religious beliefs, so it may be okay to “cheat on your taxes”, but not okay to “cheat on your mate”. Some lies are self-serving, employed either to enhance the liar's status or protect him from embarrassment, disapproval or conflict.  Some lies are told to protect someone else's feelings.   But at the core of all lies is the intent to manipulate and control another person or situation.   

I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 
Consequences of your choices are your responsibility.   If you feel you have to lie about something maybe you shouldn’t be doing it.   If you want the truth, start telling the truth.  You may find it’s true that ‘Honesty is always the best policy’.  
And if the truth hurts, it also makes you free.  Wouldn’t it be nice to live with awareness, and to make choices free of manipulation and control?

Challenge:  Try for one day to tell nothing but the truth.   

Text Box: December 16, 2007  I accepted a challenged from a  minister  to pick something and do it for 40 Days.  During those 40 days I experienced amazing results.  Since that time I’ve applied the 40 day plan with a vision board and have successfully achieved several goals.   Forty Days is Five Weeks, and Five Days.  Not a lot of time to invest in you is it?  Pick something you want to do or change in your life and do it for forty days.  Nobody is going to be checking to see if you do it.  Something amazing can happen  for you too!  Where Women Grow is fruit of a Forty Day Plan.  What will you grow? 
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I’ve learned that when I pay attention to what is going on in life, I can see my path unfolding.
It’s no coincidence.  It’s as if something is clearing the trail, pointing me in the right direction and as long as I PAY ATTENTION, I know I will reach my destination. 
Text Box: The Truth About Lies


"The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying- lying to others and to yourself." --Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

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