INTEGRITY

Integrity is often seen to mean a kind of moral uprightness and steadfastness. But when it is practised, it is more profound. It has to do with honouring your commitments when you make a promise to do something for someone else. It requires a level of resolve that causes you to make choices that reflect who you are as a person. You make every effort not to let people down when you have agreed what will be done for them, by when and to what standard. You agreed to it because you satisfied yourself that you could deliver as promised. You made that choice, consciously or unconsciously. What’s important is that you do so with an awareness of your responsibility for your words and actions. This is what it means to be free to make offers and requests.

Philosophically, when you adopt “profound integrity” you won’t always fit with the values of others. What’s important, is that you know who you are and what you care about, believing that as a fellow human being you seek to treat others as they would want to be treated. An ancient philosopher saw integrity as to “Know yourself, and to your own self, be true.”

This video explains how to be “in” integrity with your agreements