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Melbourne International Event September 14-16, 2012. Register online today at http://www.acnpacific.com.au/events/registration
Honest Conduct is Not Difficult
by Robert T. Stephan
Most people are inclined to do the right thing. At each ACN International Training Event the Legal Advisory Committee talks about a few of the requirements set out in ACN’s Policies and Procedures. The thousands present – all looking to succeed – exude enthusiasm while the Committee talks. And although some will not be successful, everyone has a chance.
Few people do not know right from wrong. You know when you are dealing from the bottom of the deck and not the top, and others know it too. Think back to when you were a child, Mum or Dad could always tell when you had been naughty, even if you tried to hide it.
Robert Fulghum said it all in his book, “All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” Share everything, play fair, and don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them, clean up your own mess, don’t take things that aren’t yours; say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic. Hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why.
In many ways each person is like the seed in Fulghum’s book, we will grow up, but unlike the plant, we know how or why our life is productive and positive, and if we have made the world a better place for others.
What makes life truly joyful? Some would say making a lot of money but I have known some rich people who were miserable. A joyful life comes when you are thankful that God has blessed you, that you have been kind to others, when you have forgiven those who were unkind to you, when you have held out your hand to lift someone up, and when you know you have been honest in your business dealings with ACN, with your fellow Independent Business Owners (IBOs) and with your customers.
The ACN Opportunity combines good intentions and good deeds into a marketing procedure that is meant to give and not take. This can only be realised when IBOs study the ACN Policies and Procedures, and let knowledge and good conscience be their map to success.
Former Kansas Attorney General Robert T. Stephan serves on the ACN Legal Advisory Committee along with former Kentucky Attorney General Chris Gorman, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, and the Honourable William P. McKeown, former Supreme Court of Ontario Judge and the former Commissioner of the Australian Trade Commission Waren Pengilley.
