Tag: Ethics

Toilet paper and changing the world? Really?

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If you have been following the story, I am on a quest to put my why into everything in my life, put my values into all that I do. So I have previously blogged about soap and fruit changing the world.

Well now it’s the turn of toilet paper to carry the banner of the revolution.

So I was sitting planning my daily #WalkNTalk Periscope and I planned today’s topic to be on ‘don’t use supermarkets’, which is something we have started doing at home, and something I am now applying to my business. In business change supermarket with Amazon.

Supermarkets/Amazon are bad because:

* They don’t treat their staff very well
* They kill small businesses, run by real people for the community
* They avoid paying tax
* They cook their books (Tesco)
* They sell us horse meat that is supposed to be beef

The list could go on, but hopefully the point is made.

While planning, I remember I needed some more toilet paper for my coworking space. I normally have been buying it from Amazon (uh oh I’ve admitted to being wrong publicly). So I went onto the internet and searched for ‘eco friendly toilet paper’ and found eco-leaf on Amazon, looked up the company directly, which is Suma. I then called them to find out how to buy without using Amazon. To cut a long story short check out Ethical Superstore.

They have all the convenience and ease of Amazon, but they are decent, ethical and great people.

So this is yet another step in my journey to change things, step by step the world can be changed, if we all do a little bit each day to find an alternative, and support the people, who were driven by their why, to make a change to the world. So toilet paper can change the world.

Next stop the coffee.

#NewWorldProject a world for the many not just the few

Values

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Values – By Philip Dodson

Do you value your values? What are your values in business? What are you values in life? Would you trade them with others?

If someone stopped you and ask you those questions, would you instinctively, without hesitation, be able to answer them?

So, what if you met someone else, you each listed your values on a piece of paper and you could trade, would you? Which ones would you trade?

When you are in a situation in business or life in general, when you are faced with a situation where you might have to bend or relax your values, when you have that uneasy feeling, when the voice is saying I’m not comfortable with that, do you give in? Do you compromise?

Do you apply the same values to customers, staff, partners, in fact to all parts of your life?

One of the most important things I have learned in life is that authenticity, consistency, honesty and sticking to your values, with whoever you are dealing with, is essential to success.

My values are the building blocks in all that I do and I would not be prepared to trade them. I now stick to them religiously in all that I do in life. Once you learn this, you’ll be amazed how every part of your life changes for the good.

Your values are yours and my take on this is – as long as you aren’t harming others, then there isn’t a right and wrong answer. There is already too much judging of others, especially within the media. As the phrase goes “live your own life citizen”.

So stay true to your values, don’t accept what seems to be the easier route and give up on them. Apply the same set of values to customers, partners, employees and all people in your life.

People will either love your values or hate them, but better to have a life where you are surrounded by the people who share your values, than to live a compromise to what you really believe in. The more you attract the right people that match you, then the less of those awkward moments that you will face, where you might give in to others’ values that you’re not comfortable with.

One life – be true to yourself and shake off that fear of being yourself.