Who Are You Listening To?
Listening to the right voices? . Are you? Do we know truth when we hear it? Or are we flirting with the bearer of lies swallowing what she says because it makes us feel better? Do you believe everything you hear? Would you know a strategic misrepresentation if you heard it? Here's an example of one. It's a joke I heard recently.
A wife calls her husband on his cell phone in the locker room he's supposed to be in. She's in a clothing store. She asks if she can buy a $1,000 coat. He says "sure, if you want to and if it's really that important to you. Go ahead."
So she continues and tells him about this new car she saw telling him it's only $60,000. "Do you think we can buy that as well?" He replied, "Go ahead, as long as it has all the extras included, you can purchase it."
As he talked on the phone with her, his locker buddies were amazed listeniing in on the conversation. The woman on the other end of the phone continued.
"Remember that house we looked at last year? Well it just went on the market again and it's listed at $999,000. Do you think it's a good time now to buy it?"
"Sure, he said, but only if they will accept $900,000 and no more. Go ahead and put in an offer."
His buddies now are looking at each other and whispering wondering how their friend could afford such luxury.
The phone call ended, the man turns around, all eyes upon him as he asks:
"Does anybody know who this phone belongs to?"
We need to learn to recognize the right voices. We should be tirelessly discerning not hearing just what we want to hear. The truth makes us free but quite often it first makes us miserable as we come face to face with it knowing how wrong we really were.