Barbara A. Lewis

                               Wife, mother, religious worker, national award-winning author and educator  

The Ten Tips

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

       
Reflection: These ten tips can benefit me by giving me advice on how to become a better person. It can make me look better as a person because you can be trusted with promises.People will know they can trust you for anything they need to talk about.An example is that you can use this tips in you are in a bad situation and you want to lie remember step 8 and tell the truth.For another example is when you are telling a person a story about something and you start to change it up again just to make is sound interesting, in reality it is not it is only making is untruthful.These ten tips are important because you in to learn how to be truthful.You also need to have knowledge on how to tell the truth and avoid lies.I will apply these things into my goals by achieving them honestly.I will also never lie that i accomplish a goal when i didn't.You should always tell the truth no matter what.This will make you be a better person throughout time.