Ten Tips for being more Truthful

• Make a commitment to tell the truth.
• Tell someone about your commitment.
• Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.
• Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
• Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.
• Don't indulge in little white lies.
• Watch out for silent lies.
• When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
• Talk to yourself.
• Treat yourself when you tell the truth.

Reflection: The ten tips help you to be a honest person and it tells you how to act when some is telling you or lie or the other way around. Like for example one of the tips say make a commitment to tell the truth this means that telling the truth is better than telling a little white lie. Sometimes when you lie and the person you told that lie to will never trust you because they think you are always going to lie so they wont trust you anymore. That's a bad thing because then no one is going to want to hangout with you just because of your lies. The ten tips benefit you in many ways. The ten tips are important because to live because without them you'll not be careful in what you say or you'll always lie. I will incorporate this in my life planning by setting a goal to always be honest and to be careful in what i say because even if i let a little detail out i could be twisting things up.