I am admitting to all that I have lied in my life. I have not told the truth or I have not said anything about a situation which is the same as lying. I kept things from my previous wife which was lying. Not being open and honest about conversations I had with other women was being unfaithful and is the same as lying. Saying thing’s I thought to be little lie’s would eventually turn into big lies. After doing this for a period of time eventually caught up with me and things happened to me that caused heartache to me and others. I have always thought of myself as a good person. I ask you this; how can anyone be a good person who is not honest?
I have a new outlook on life, which is I will do all I can to be honest to myself and others. One thing is what I had to do was find out what it was that caused me to lie. I was able to justify the reason for all lies I have told. The main reason I lied to people was based on two things SELF, and FEAR. Then I sat down and wrote the reasons I would lie based on those two reasons.
1) Make myself look better in the eyes of others (of course that was only my perception).
2) Thinking if I told the truth would cause the other person to be hurt, which would make me feel bad. Not paying attention to the fact when the person would find out the truth they would be hurt and upset with me for lying.
3) Telling the truth would cause the other person to be mad at me. Again that was only my perception. What is the difference with them being mad at me now or real mad at me later?
4) Telling the truth would cause the other person to think badly of me. So what?
5) I would think it is only a small lie and it was what they wanted to hear any way. Like I know what they want to hear!
6) Not saying anything at all. I would think if I stayed quite about something that was not lying. That is the biggest lie I ever told my self. Because when others found out I knew, it was worse for me, than if I would have said something about it in the beginning.
Here is the bottom line to this whole subject. If you and I want to be honest and enjoy life with out having to worry about if someone finds out we lied or knew about something; don’t lie and be honest to yourself and others around you!

 Until next time, I am

Big Al Manor

Here is a topic that is not talked about or mentioned enough. The back bone of the American work force in my opinion is the commissioned sales person. They are people who get paid for what they do and how much they produce.
Most people in the American work force exchange time and effort for money. They go to work; they are assigned or given a task to do and they do it. The employer decides how much he is willing to pay that person for doing that task and the worker agrees to do the work for that amount of money.
Our government works on the same principle. They get elected and then they work for the people who elected them for a certain amount of money each year they are in office.
We have people who put their time in at a job and it doesn’t really matter how well they do it as long as they are there. Then we see the ones who keep their job based on how well they keep the bosses happy, not necessarily how effective they are at performing their job just how well they are at keeping their superiors happy by just going along with what ever they say.
These types of people which are a majority of the American workforce are salary or hourly employees. Now let us look at the commissioned sales person the one who sells mainly to people who are salary or hourly employees.
This is what I wonder and have for many years. Why is it people tend to have a problem with the commissioned sales person. It has become that it is a bad thing in our society to have commissioned sales staff. There are places that advertise to the public that they DO NOT have a commissioned sales staff. Is it that people would rather deal with people who have very little desire to earn their business? Is it that people would rather deal with people that have very little drive and determination?
Maybe we should put more people on commission. For example put our politicians on commission. Tell them that their pay would be in accordance how they serve the people who elected them. Their pay would be in accordance on how low unemployment is in the district or state they were elected to take care of. Their pay would be based on how many businesses’ stay in business and don’t go out of business. Their pay would be regulated on how many times they go out and meet the people and have town hall meetings.
How about these employees that deal with the public on a daily bases? Put them on a commission type pay structure. Have their pay based on how satisfied customers are who deal with them. We hear when we call a business “this call may be recorded”. If that is the case put the people who answer the call on some type of commission bases on how they handle the call. On how many times they resolve the situation for the person called.
Commission would change things in our society. It would make people more aware of what they do and how they do it. In a lot of cases it would make better employees and more efficient work places.
I am not saying that people have to be on a total commission pay plan. I do believe it would not hurt any business to have some type of commission structure.
You will hear more about my opinion on the commission sales person in blogs to come. Until then don’t think bad about that commission sales person have respect for him/her. Because they are getting paid in accordance on how they perform and make you the customer feel good at doing business at that particular place of business.

Until next time, I am
Big Al Manor