Your Actions Change Your Reputation and they Change You

On Thursday (Feb. 12th) I was listening to the Radio and heard an author of a book on Parenting saying that statistics show that older children are tending towards "disassociation" when it comes to self perception and behavior.

Folks, this is not about anyone's religion. Your actions shape who you are. It may take water a long time to erode a hillside but given enough time much damage can be done. When you engage in any activity repeatedly, especially over longer periods of time, it becomes more and more difficult to cease.

Overeating is one example. Gambling is another. Cheating is another.

But not only do your actions shape you, they also shape others perceptions of you.

Recently I saw a van with a realtor's bumper sticker parked in the blue striped access space just to the side of a handicapped parking space. The sticker said that the agent wanted to be my realtor. My reaction? No way, no how.

Why?

Because if they would do that in a parking space they might also mess up any transaction in which they represented me. Not going to happen.

Seth Godin wrote "Good guys finish..."