However, it’s not about the jokes. Clearly, you don’t get it.
It’s about keeping your word and honoring your agreements and not making excuses when you don’t. You blew off your transgression, because you decided it didn’t matter because you felt it was insignificant. To do that shows great disrespect.
This is about the context from which you operate, not the content of your life.
Asking me (and others) to honor a request that you are not willing to honor yourself shows a lack of integrity.
Consciously acknowleding that you were going to break your word by apologizing in advance, shows me that you don’t take your word seriously, and therefore are someone that I find unworthy of my trust.
I know you think that this is unimportant but it is exactly what keeps you stuck in your life. You change the rules when it suits you. The size (content) of the infraction is unimportant. The context is everything. Stealing trust a penny at a time is no different than robbing a bank full of millions.
I want you to know that I support you in being bigger than your considerations about this discussion. I respectully suggest that you start taking your word and your agreements seriously. Keep your word, no matter what and act as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
By keeping my word, I show respect for you. It means you can count on me to always be authentic in my dealing with you. That way you will know who I am and be clear on where I operate from in this life. Nothing will be hidden. If I do what I say, you will always know what to expect of me.
If I break my word, I will always be responsible and clean up my lack of integrity the moment that I recognize that I have not kept my word. I will never break my word consciously unless I receive your permission first to do so. Therefore, by doing that, it puts me back in integrity once again, revealing to you where I operate from in my life.
To that end, I want to acknowledge that I have been off topic during these last few posts and have broken my agreement/commitment to stick with real estate related information only.
I agree to recreate that agreement right now, regardless of whether you are willing to make that same commitment. I think it was a sound suggestion which will further the purpose of this form and weed out those discussions that don’t keep us on purpose. Therefore, you have my word that from this point forward I will only discuss real estate related issues on this forum.
