As a Soft Skills Trainer and Executive Coach, I believe that training would be starkly incomplete without touching upon the importance of Integrity in one’s life. It is the foremost value essential to success in all that we undertake. The essence of integrity is beautifully summed up in the quote by Don Galer,
“Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.”
All of us at some point in life would have come across individuals with unswerving integrity, from whom we feel inspired to act according to the code of ethics and conduct. Peter Scotese once said, and I quote, “Integrity is not a 90% thing, not a 95% thing; either you have it or you don’t.”
It is better to be known doing right, rather than be known for having done something wrong. Always remember that you judge and rate yourselves by what you are capable of doing and achieving; but the world judges you by what you have already done. So it is a lot better to live an honest life with integrity.
For starters, it would be useful to follow a thumb rule: the test of real character lies in what you would do if you would never be found out.
Success comes more easily to the person who treads upon the path of righteousness and goodness. It gives a sense of peace and spreads good-will all around. It needs to be inculcated very consciously into one’s life.
Whenever you are at crossroads and in doubt about how to proceed in a particular situation, think about the following 3 questions:
1. What do you say?
2. What do you do?
3. What do you say you do?
If the answer to these 3 questions are all the same, then you are one giant step closer to the success you are aspiring to achieve.