REG #7

This was about the prophet Joseph Smith, and the sacrifices that he made for the Church. I have been thinking a lot about honesty. That has been an overwhelming theme in my life this week. The devotional was on honesty, Marlena brought home an article about being honest in relationships, and then we watched My Best Friend's Wedding throughout the entire week I have been learning about honesty. I have been thinking about honesty. I have been hearing about honesty. It causes me to wonder about honesty in relationships. This has been an overpowering thought for a few days.
I tried to connect this thought back to the prophet Joseph Smith. He went through trials and tribulations, the mobs came, the crowds came, people betrayed him, and he remained faithful. This is what has caught my attention- remaining faithful. He was honest with himself. This is a vital relationship for me to be honest with. I need to be honest with myself. I was wondering if all of these promtings about honesty were to prepair me for some grand relationship; that was just around the corner. Now as I am thinking I believe that these promptings have been for me to realize that if I want to have an honest relationship with another soul for all eternity and share eternity through temple blessings I need to learn to be honest with myself.
What are somethings that I can start doing right now to change my thinking that will help me to be more honest with myself: honest thoughts about my physical appearance? honest with what I am thinking, honest with my ideas and inspiration, honest with homework, honestly work hard... this is a pointless list... it seems so ambigous and like there is no actual single thing that I can do?
I will use Joseph Smith as my example. What did he do in his life to be honest with himself. Well I can do all of the "basics" and then how can I change my thinking to become more honest with myself. I think... this may sound odd, but I believe that I should think more about others, and less about myself. For some reason I think that this will help me to become more honest because when I think more about others I can see clearer. I can see more truth and then apply that truth to my life instead of trying to dig in a cement pit in my own soul that will not lead me to know more truth about myself. I think that is a good solution. I should make other people more of my reality; learn about other's and make beautiful truths that can honestly grow inside of myself.