Is Lying to Others a Form of Lying to Yourself?

A study published in the journal Emotion says that embellishing stories to friends is not really an attempt to deceive others, but rather, an attempt to express your true hopes and goals.
According to the article, "these self serving exaggerations are not lies, but future truths" as they are your goals that you intend to achieve.

My Take
A lie, is a lie. Whether you are pushing this untruth to others or yourself.
Webster dictionary puts it this way: 1: to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive, 2: to create a false or misleading impression.

At one point or another, we may have done this with ourself and others - present company included ;-)
We may want to ask ourself:

• Am I really lying to myself and others by making these exaggerations?
• How will the person feel upon uncovering the untruth(s)?
• Could the untruth(s) cause the person to change their view of you?
  

It's a constant struggle, but maintaining our integrity will provide more satisfaction than an lie/untruth to make ourselves look better in other peoples eyes. This of the satisfaction as the same as what you get from accomplishing a goal you set out to achieve or finally finishing that building project.
We have to be happy with ourselves before we can make ourselves look better in other people's eyes!

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