We can’t discernibly say what’s more important than another, but if we had to choose one, we would choose truth because the truth is going to determine your ethics. Truth is going to determine your character and truth is going to determine your attitude. Those make up your morality.

Once you understand that there is a compass for this, then it will tell you what direction you need to go in order to be able to achieve your desired outcome and if there’s a conflict in the way you present truth or the moral character that you possess, or even the reputation that’s attached to your character, you’re going to have an issue.

The first conflict is then going to be with yourself.

One of the things you might want to consider is how good, or “moral,” are your truth, attitude, character, and your ethics?

Where do you stand on each of those elements, and which one stands out to you as something that you are really strong in and something that you want to focus on improving?

My dad, rest his soul, gave me a lesson early in life that said, “When you tell the truth, you never have to remember what you said.” –Jeff

There’s truth in the cliché of truth. What a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive, and so when we don’t tell the truth it becomes a tangled web of deception that you have a hard time, or an impossible time, of getting out of without actually having to admit the truth.

Eventually, all the lies will be revealed.