Integrity

Products are given to acquainted customers through middle men. The producer could be in a rush but some customers do not let them know that they received the product and that they would send the cash via mobile.

A buyer has come in and has given you more money than was required or perhaps walks out so quick that you hardly obtained a chance to hand him back his or her change. Will you run out and follow up the matter? Or stealthily keep the change?

Maybe you’re the customer who while receiving change from the cashier at the supermarket are given a huge amount of change. Perhaps it was meant to be for another customer who’s gone to pick up an item he had forgotten to. Will you turn yourself in?

Are you the kind of business head that deals unequally to differs people especially according to their state? Do you price the poor man a low fee and when someone approaches you with an attribute of the rich — say the latest range rover — you hiken the fee to a high mark yet giving the same service or product?

Let me just say you’re cheating yourself!

Why? You’re basing the product on the value of the market/customer instead of its true value! That means its worth will keep fluctuating, and when the rich client discovers what you did to him, he’ll sever all ties with you, leaving you with your poor customers who you might be offering your product and service at a value much less than the product’s exact worth.

Tackle that by creating products or services with great value but in different quantities starting from those that can be afforded by the ‘poor‘ ranging up to those that are rich. At the end of the day, anyone can afford you, and everyone is happy.

Integrity is having a quality of being honest. I’d personally define it as doing what is right/true. Slowly, even christians today have lost the integrity touch, which they are expected to have. They claim that no one is perfect in the wrong sense. They hide behind the mask of ‘grace’ or a miracle.

Picking money on the road that has no other person is way different from practically seeing someone dropping money accidentally and refusing to call them to give it to them as you see the incident happening.

These things seem hard to do, until it’s us who are in need of them. One time, at night, I gave a 20000/- note to a boda guy, thinking it was the blue note of one zero less. I discovered it in the morning, when I looked for a 20000/- note and I found a 2000/- one. That big money was supposed to bail me out of many things.

I remembered the boda cyclist clearly checking the money using his faint torch, but never bothering to let me know that I’d given him more as I walked away fast. I imagine if it was the boda guy who was supposed to give me say change of 2000/- and instead he hands me 20000/- and I walked away.

What if it was supposed to clear part of his rent? Or meals? Or fuel? You notice that if it’s done to you—this being treated unjustly, you’d end up in a fix that you thought you’d not planned for. I therefore simply write to ask us to do unto others what we’d like them to do unto us.

The world would be a so much better place to live in if people thought this way. If the thieves realize they wouldn’t wish to be robbed themselves, if the mafias that cut people realize they wouldn’t want to be chopped themselves, if the rapists realize that they wouldn’t love to be raped if they were girls, if those who abort realize they wouldn’t want to be murdered as foetuses themselves, I believe there would be a sense of community shift and renewal in all parts of the world.

Let’s not give up on doing good. Let’s not give up on doing what’s right! Everyone desires to be treated justly. Everyone is worth that chance.

Just a parting shot, according to psychologists, other than Intelligence Quotient and Emotional Quotient, there’s Social Quotient; which is the measure of the ability to build a network of friends (community) and keep it for a long period of time.

I won’t even talk about the measure, but just the ability. The ability for each of us to burgeon our networks is by having integrity. Research has it that the highest percentage of people get fired for lacking this factor of integrity—the quality of being honest or true.

Once again I say, let’s be just, honest & true!

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Matthew 7:12a “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you…

Romans 12:21 Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.