I receive hundreds of different things through my News Feed from my 4,500 Facebook friends. I have a policy if we have 100 mutual friends we are friends who just haven’t met yet. Doing this you end up with a lot of musicians, American female life coaches and people you actually know on your list. As a gratitude exercise I have started sending all of them a Facebook Birthday Card as I believe everybody should receive a birthday card on their special day.
A couple of days ago I received a quote on Integrity that went something like this. Integrity is doing it even when no one is looking. What do you hold Integrity to be: Is it your actions, who you hold yourself to be or a mixture of both.
Choosing my 15 quotes to comment on was interesting, there are a few that dominate but I found quotes that will fascinate and please. Let us begin :
1. I have kept my integrity with my Facebook Birthday cards even one day I was not going to be at home and having left my phone there I went to an Internet Cafe to send them.
2. Many people say they are going to one day. My friend Catherine Deveny calls her writing class Gunnas Master Class, can you guess why. I googled saying vs. doing and it brought up this interesting blog: The Big Difference.
3. Zig Ziglar, most famous for the quote “You can have everything in Life, If you will just help enough other people get what they want” which features on his website passed in 2012. His podcast still receives an average of 350,000 hits a month.
4. Integrity is partially in what you do and who you be. If you wish to keep it intact don’t do things that will challenge it.
5. I like the fact that they are highlighting the word Integrity with a yellow marker so it stands out from the rest. Because when it becomes as ordinary as all other words the battle is lost.
6. Born in Ghana, Israelmore wrote his first Quote on his palm in a toilet, he has come a long way since. He is an Inspirational Writer and a born-again Christian, so passionate about transformation individuals through information. He holds a strong belief that reformation and transformation of society can only become evident in the presence of information. However, it takes only positive and relevant information to bring real and intended transformation.
7. How does one obtain beauty? Does going to the gym or buying the latest perfumes or having plastic surgery or a tummy tuck. None of these things can attain it according to master coach Thomas Leonard, to him beauty is obtained through your inner qualities, Integrity being one of these.
8. How many times does that thought ” Do I really have to ” pass through. The answer is yes even if there is no congratulations and no recognition, remember you still know.
9. These are the gifts you receive from living your life from Integrity. Is there a song about it, of Course: Integrity Song.
10. I used to run Marathons back in the day, during training I would get to my integrity point at about the 8 kilometre mark when my mind would go is this worth it, moast times I said yes.
11. As we move down the journey of time our definition is what is integrity changes over time. The friends I had in my boozing days would definitely not fit into my version of it now.
12.
Integrity
A firm adherence to a code of values
The state of being complete, whole, or undivided
Total honesty and sincerity
The ability to “walk our talk”
Discipline
Activity that improves a skill
Controlling behavior to mold moral character
Habits and ways of acting developed through practice
13. I love these balanced stones images, these show the power of gravity and the reliance on each other. Integrity also comes with other traits like the list Zig Ziglar has put together.
14. This short film made by USC covers the above statement very well : USC Integrity Movie.
15. Do you have conditions for your Integrity, Is it different if no one is watching to being in a crowded room. As the above quote says it’s internally you look for integrity and the actions one takes from that place.
Whilst writing this it has brought up examples for me where I have lapsed my Integrity. I will put them back in place over the next few days.
Namaste my dear friends. Speak to you again next Monday.
I am an Interculturalist 
When I reflect on what integrity means to me I am often reminded of one of the declarations we learnt from Werner Erhard’s courses, that if you say you are going to do something or be somewhere and then don’t do it, or don’t turn up when you said, that the rest of the world no longer knows what to expect from you. Our word is our integrity, a seemingly old-fashioned idea however I find it to be a challenge worth taking on. My favorite quote for this post? No. 9.
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