Integrity is first about knowing yourself—knowing your values, your desires, your talents, your dreams—and then being true to that self, in all your actions and interactions. Integrity is behavior congruent with your values. When your actions are aligned with your values, you conduct yourself with authenticity, sincerity and wholeness. When you clarify your values, it helps you set goals that are consistent with those values. Together, your values and goals bring a sense of passion and purpose to your work and your life. A lot of people simply act as they feel like acting, then find some justification—any justification—for why they did what they did. Their actions are largely unconsidered.
Highly successful people, in contrast, use their values to steer their actions. They reflect, and then act. Their values motivate their actions, because they choose their actions to harmonize with their values. Check your motivation—can you be honest enough with yourself to really admit why you're doing something? Is it really a reflection of your values, or a reflection of what you want at the moment?
Choose your behavior to reflect your values, and you'll move through life with authenticity, sincerity, and wholeness. When you live with integrity, it'll show. People will trust you, almost instinctively. They'll think of you as a person of your word. You'll be known for your strong character.
When you live with integrity, you'll enjoy a clear conscience. You'll be filled with good feelings about yourself. Those good feelings will pour into everything you say and do. Integrity fosters trust and respect, the cornerstones of good relationships and good relationships are vital to success in all aspects of life. Align your actions with your values.
Live what you value. If you value honesty, be truthful. If you value keeping your word, follow through. If you value being fair, do what you expect others to do.
Your identity is who you are. Your integrity is an expression of who you are. - What do you value? - How do these values show up in your life? - Do your current actions support your values?
First define your values; then align your actions with your values.
Affirmations for INTEGRITY: - I have stated beliefs and values. - I know and understand them. - My behavior reflects them.
"Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity." —Erich Fromm
We are handicapped in English in our “modern" culture. We now have many people who live together without marriage. This includes the heterosexual pairs, and also homosexual pairs. To some very religious persons, “living in sin", might be their description. To more moderate and forgiving persons, there is no word that fits the category.
The “oldies" aren’t “goodies" in this case. “Boyfriend" and “girlfriend" implies something much simpler and childlike. Fiancée implies an actual engagement with a ring, and at least marriage in the future. POSSLQ - “persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters" has the same disadvantage as the others, no room for homosexual couples. Further, it’s not very easy to remember, and a mouthful. not only to say, but in many cases explain. “My roommate" implies a financial relationship, not a sexual one. (It may be used when the couple involved are “in the closet", so to speak.) It’s perhaps the vaguest of all these terms. Some years ago, I was embarrassed because I couldn’t remember exactly what POSLQ stood for. I had used the term in a conversation. I thought it was “persons of opposite sex living together", and couldn’t remember what the “Q" stood for. This memory lapse caused me to think about this term off and on for some months at the back of my mind. I thought of several different words. But none seemed to cover all the possibilities well.
In a moment when I had nothing better to do, I thought about this word again. I learned long ago to simply put down on paper what I was trying to do, so I put down “person living with another". From that my mind leaped to the phrase “living with friend". This gave LWF, and that’s not as simple as I wanted it. I quickly came to “live in friend", and the initials “LIF" make up a new word.
Note how well this covers all the various situations of couples living together, whether heterosexual or homosexual. It fits nearly all situations.
In 1953, I met an Air Force Lieutenant who had spend time living in a tent in North Africa with another Lieutenant. There was literally nothing to do much of the time, so they played word games, simply to pass the time. One day they decided to invent a new word, and spent several hours (as my friend told it) finding a word to use.
They finally came up with a new word “ZILCH". They finally decided that it should be a word meaning “nothing", as they felt that they were doing in that tent. It has now become a word in the English language, and very few even know what the description of that word was originally. Being males in that time and place and circumstances, it was, of course, obscene. They finally decided on two descriptions.
1. “A wet bag of crushed assholes". 2. “A crushed bag of wet assholes". Both, of course, mean nothing, and almost nobody knows the actual original meaning. I hope that my word “LIF" gets even close to the circulation of “ZILCH". We need a word for these situations that is simple, and easy.
Phil Bate PhD - Retired Orthomolecular Psychologist Inventor and Patent Pending Holder for Brain Wave Amplitude Changing via NeuroliminalTraining http://DrBate.com
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