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Day 17 – Q 1. Why is it important to have synergy between one’s words and actions from the ethical standpoint?

1. Why is it important to have synergy between one’s words and actions from the ethical standpoint?

नैतिक दृष्टिकोण से किसी के शब्दों और कार्यों के बीच तालमेल होना क्यों महत्वपूर्ण है?

Introduction:

If your actions do not prove the truth of your words, then your words nothing more than lies. People say things and make promises they have no intention of keeping on a daily basis. It often happens in public service, organization, in family. Sometimes things cannot be expressed in mere words; they require actions to speak for them. Words are cheap, anyone can tell someone they love them, but they will not feel the immensity of these emotions until they are acted upon.

Body

It is very much important to have synergy between one’s words and actions

  • Government: here government means elected representatives, we often happen to see, before coming to power different political parties make so many promises like they will make the country free from corruption, generating employment, in their manifesto but once they got elected they hardly care about the promises made by them .this leads to losing of confidence on politicians and sometimes it may paves the way to civil wars, eventually people may not elect them again.
  • Organization: in this atmosphere, your actions speak more than your words. For instance famous e-commerce giant amazon, their main principle is customer obsession, when somebody placed an order then they will get an assurance that the ordered product will be reached on particular date but in the process that product will be delivered to customer with long delay or even it may get cancelled. Then it leads trust deficit, consequence will be loss of profit to the company.
  • Relationship: This concept applies to almost every situation in a person’s life. In relationships, if one partner is consistently coming home late from work and not answering his or her phone, the other will probably think this person is cheating. This is a valid concern, since the partner’s actions are running contrary to how a relationship should be. This concern will only grow as the actions contradict the faithful promises that were once made. No protests of love will be able to convince otherwise because the actions are looked at over the words. .“Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Conclusion

Promises mean nothing without proof. People lie all the time and say things just to appease others. You can only learn about a person’s true character by watching their behaviors toward you and toward others. Actions should meet verbal commitments, not conflict them. If you promise something, people might not believe you until they see you actually do it. If we give off two contradictory messages, verbal and nonverbal, people will have the tendency to believe the nonverbal over the verbal.

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