The Ten Tips

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: The ten tips for being truthful are a way of making your life better. These tips help you decide right from wrong. In this situation, telling the truth is right and lying is wrong. The tips tell you that you should not add a sarcastic tone when talking to someone or be disrespectful and rude. It also says how you should think before saying something that isn't true. It's only right to tell the truth all the time and not keep it to yourself and twist it around even if it's bad. I will use these tips to help me be more truthful with my friends and family even if what I say may hurt their feelings. These will benefit me and make me a better person because nothing is better than telling the truth. Telling the truth is so important and one little tiny lie can hurt people. Telling a lie will most likely change everything depending on how big of a lie it is or even the small ones can create that much damage.