TRIP TIP #40 “Live Your Values, Your Ethics and Most of All, Your Philosophy”

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TRIP TIP #40 “Live Your Values, Your Ethics and Most of All, Your Philosophy”

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Hi, this is Keith Renninson “The Tenacity Expert” professional speaker & author of the award-winning book “Tenacity, You Don’t Have to Get Lost in Nepal to Find Yourself, But it Helps!”.  I’m here with my next installment of my TRIP Tips for the financial services professional.  Remember that TRIP is an acronym for TENACITY, RESILIENCE, IMAGINATION, AND PURPOSE.  So, lets’ get started!

This can be a pretty heady topic that many people want to avoid, but it’s important for us all to walk the walk of our values and ethics.  Unfortunately, it seems to me that values tend to ebb and flow in society.  They change with the politics, culture, and pop culture of the time.  That bothers me a bit because good values can fall away, and poor values will replace them.  Unlike virtues which have been developed and honed over time by the great philosophers and thinkers.  Virtues are foundational & functional.  Revisiting virtues and confirming their usefulness from time to time is a good thing too.  You can pass them along to those who are younger, so they see them in action and not as something ancient and outdated.  

Ethics, also like virtues, should be solidified in time-honored foundational truth and justice.  Right is right and wrong is wrong...politics, pop-culture and the media can twist and turn them to fit their needs and soon they don't look anything like they did originally.  This is sad, and dangerous, because unless we are teaching our young the old, tried and true ethics of the ancients, we will stray off course and regret it.

At the end of my keynote and breakout sessions I introduce a concept that I find many folks have never thought of and that is a “Life Philosophy”.  If you write a life philosophy, you can include your values and ethics.  If you are married, you can work on this with your spouse and children if they are old enough.  By establishing your own philosophy, you lay out a foundation of how you will live your life.  I wrote mine while I was lost in Nepal and have only edited it in one small way since.  I try to live my life by it and have it framed on the wall in my office.

Well, that’s it for this installment, I hope you have some new ideas on how to proceed.  Remember to take a TRIP for a lifetime, not a trip of a lifetime.

See you next time, and in the meantime, take time to examine your values, ethics and life philosophy, it will serve you well in the long run.

Have a great day!

Goodbye!

Keith......