Almost everybody likes to think that they are honest. Some will admit that they will tell a white lie if it means not hurting someone they care about...it is better to kept the truth from them rather than let them get hurt. However there is someone that we all lie to and we do it with amazing frequency....we lie to ourselves. Those extra few pounds don't make me fat, I am just out of condition. It wasn't my fault the assignment was late, the other people didn't do their jobs on time. We keep lying to ourselves because we can't face the reality of what we are....we are over weight, we did procrastinate, we did lose our temper and so on. We don't call it lying. We can't even tell ourselves that we are telling ourselves lies. We call it rationalizing the situation.
The only time we tell ourselves the truth is when it can no longer be denied. When we step on the scales and look in the mirror, when the evidence is placed before us and can no longer be denied. We eventually have to own up to our condition but by then it is usually too late to do anything about it.
The next time you are tempted to "rationalize" (read: lie to yourself) stop. Think about what you are doing. If you were talking to a friend would you say the same thing? If we can't be honest with ourselves, are we really being honest at all?
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