Hi there, my name is Leda and I am starting my journey to owning my own business. My husband is a pest control rodent specialist and one day hopes to be his own boss. In reality I will be his boss! I have always wanted to finish my degree and this is a good path for me. We want to be a team and build our life together to be better. We just can't do it without each other!
John has been working for pest control companies for a few years now. When he was with a national company he would come home and complain almost daily about how dishonest the sales people are. They would exaggerate what they found and would sell services that didn't need to be done. John felt bad whenever he went to their houses to do the service only to find that they didn't need it.
In class this week we talked about when we get to the end of our lives, what was the most important thing in our lives?
We were asked to think about 3 questions:
Did I accomplish something meaningful?
Was I a good person?
Who did I love and who loved me?
These questions made me think of John and the kinds of things he ran into in his career. It made me grateful that John has been such a good example to me of integrity and honesty. When I read these questions and started thinking about the ethics that go into selling a product, I had to ask myself would I be 100% honest when hard situations arise? Or would I be like those sales people and exaggerate an issue just to make money?
These are good questions to live by as someone who owns their own business. Life is too short sell myself short. I want to create meaningful relationships full of honesty and integrity, and John will be a great partner not only as a husband but as a business partner.
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