We have to set an example to the others by starting from ourselves. Start to become honest. No matter there are many liars outside. Make the commitment to be honest in our entire lives.
Is it difficult?
Yes, it is very, very difficult. Maybe, it is the most difficult thing that we have ever faced. But if we want to make this world the better place to live on, we have to pay the "price". Efforts are not easy to be done, but they are worthy for the better future.Â
Start from ourselves is the first start.
2. Start from the smallest thing
Don't think too big if we want to start, but start from the smallest thing, the easiest thing that we can do.
For example, if you are ordered by your mother to buy some apples and oranges in the supermarket, you will face the temptation to become honest or dishonest.
Your mother gave a hundred thousand rupiahs, and the price of the fruits is sixty thousand rupiahs. The temptation that you have to face, absolutely, are two options on the front: give the rest of the money, exactly forty thousand rupiahs to your mother; or lie to her, say the price is increased, eighty thousand rupiahs and the change is twenty thousand rupiahs, and you keep the rest twenty thousand rupiahs without the knowing of your mother.
Which one will you choose?
This is the easy test, but it is not as easy as it looks like. The small temptation as the first start before we move to the next level.
3. Be a doer, not only a speaker
"One action is louder than one statement."
I always believe with the sentence above. Sometimes (or maybe often) we talk too much, give many advices, but we do nothing as the examples to others.
