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Writer's pictureAimee Reese

Having Your Integrity


Means You Have Courage and Comfort

People who have integrity tend to be comfortable in their own skin. They are also happy, confident, and courageous and have a unique quality to them that draws admiration from others. Such people don’t have a tendency of being easily thrown off balance by challenges; rather they always recover their equilibrium very fast. Integrity is a quality everyone should fundamentally consider embracing in life. If you have integrity people will just know it and vice versa. Developing integrity is the key to a happier and successful life. Although the word may sound vague to many, integrity is one core quality that can improve every aspect of your life.

Integrity is a value that defines your character. Just like other important values like courage, intelligence, and persistence, integrity means having a flawless character. As a person, you are judged by others according to your values and morals. When you have integrity, it means you are also consistent with other values. The key to a happy life is through thorough honesty. It is the best way of developing your character. Without integrity, you will have problems convincing others that you are trustworthy and can be counted on. We have all heard or read somewhere about leaders with questionable integrity. Such leaders end up engaging in corruption among other evil deeds. In the end, people lose confidence in their leadership since they cannot be trusted.

Integrity may sound mysterious to some people but it is a very important value that everyone should focus on developing for a better life. It is difficult, to be honest with others without being totally honest with yourself. Living with integrity is the easiest way of having fabulous positive impacts on those around you. Having integrity basically means having the highest virtues and values without faking it.

People who live consistently with high integrity tend to be trustworthy in all areas of their lives. Results being; they have the courage and comfort to produce the highest quality in everything they are entrusted with. In other words, they prove to be great leaders and role models to the people around them. Living with integrity means integrating your beliefs, facts, values, thoughts, and actions. To develop integrity, you have to be willing to question your thoughts, to adhere to your most important values, weave and reweave your understanding consistently.

Consider starting to develop the value of integrity by keeping easy promises you make, being totally honest with yourself and others, being accountable and having the courage to own up to your mistakes. The benefits of living with integrity are endless. For instance, integrity strengthens your character, it improves all parts of your life, it attracts only the best people & things into your life, it makes you a better person and above all, it brings you success in everything you engage in.



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