What Is Integrity?
Integrity – is the practice of being Honest and showing a consistent and Uncompromising Adherence to strong moral and Ethical principles and values.
Integrity is Trust
Many of us are taught the things integrity stands for like being honest , righteous, decency, truthfulness and so on…
Which is what we all should live by as a human being.
But we live on a planet that doesn’t promote integrity. When you watch a movie or go on social media it’s showing lies, stealing or lawlessness all the opposite of integrity.
And we are so programmed to see everyone around us in that lens of having no integrity that we miss opportunity, in many areas of our lives.
we wouldn’t even give a helping hand to someone in need or stop to talk to someone that we don’t know cause we are always thinking with our guards up that the world teaches us to use and miss out on meeting great people.
You have to use a common sense filter, something that is not taught in school and never will.
The truth is that yes we must be aware of people that are dishonest , scammers and want to cheat us but dont walk around treating everyone that way, use your common sense filter when you are talking to someone.
How to Know If Someone Has Integrity?
Simple you wouldn’t know this until you know the person for some time or from someone you trust that knows the other person.
They are trustworthy:
Integrity IS trust and trust comes from building that over time. when you meet someone for the first time, a total stranger you don’t have trust and in that case you can’t say that he or she is an integritable person.
Or your dad introduces you to someone he has known for a long time and in that case you go on your dad’s trust on that person so you trust them a bit more than zero trust.
They are Accountable :
This way is if someone told you that they will be there at a specific time or they will get something done at this day and time then they do it. As the saying goes ( walk the talk).
Or if you say you are going to do something then do it.
When you see someone that says they will do something but didn’t do what they say you lose trust in that person and now you can’t say that’s a person with integrity.
They are Honest:
How would you know if someone is honest ? Have you noticed as humans you will test people’s honesty just so you can trust them? It’s in our human nature.
Sometimes you wouldn’t even know consciously that you are testing someone’s honesty, sometimes it will be little things such as; here’s $20 dollar get me some snacks and then the person comes back with the snacks and gives you back your $3.87 cests change from your $20 dollar bill. In your mind you don’t think about it but your subconscious mind remembers everything. And something we plan to test others just to find out if we can trust them.
They are Truthful:
One of the well known things humans are taught is to lie and it’s in everything we do these days: movies, jokes, songs and the list goes on and on… but I learned that one lie brings many lie’s. whenever you tell one lie you have to tell another lie to cover that one before and the chain goes on lie, lie ,lie. But hear me well, Go with the truth, so you don’t have to remember a lie.
When you find someone that lies to you or you found out they lie. You lose trust in that person like an airplane losing altitude in the sky. Trust is build on truth
They are decent:
This is the way someone carries themselves, like are they well mannered (polite) and do they respect others and things around them?
Now all those things I describe above sound very very familiar, how does it sound like Jesus teaches us those things already and what God gives to Moses on the 10 commandments. Wow! I think that’s amazing God taught us those things but the world is trying to teach you to do the opposite of those great teachings.
Have you ever thought about why every movie, social media post , song or even books are so successful in the eyes of the world ? it’s because it teaches lie, steal, cheat , lawlessness and the list goes on but at the end of the day you have to be the one living with those choices on how you want to live your life i pray you are or become a person that live by the word Integrity and you teach everyone around you to be that way too.
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