"Integrity is, fundamentally the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk". It is our honor with self, the essence of proactive growth"
Stephen R. Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Integrity is the key to success in life. Most of the times we as individuals have a lot of integrity when it comes to making and keeping commitments with others. But when it comes to self, we are sadly lacking. It is easy for us to compromise on our integrity to ourselves because nobody is going to hold us accountable to ourselves but us.. and since we are the person doing the letting down it does not matter much to us. It is truly sad to realize that we place such a small value on the biggest and most profitable asset we may ever own in our life - Ourselves.
For every time we let down ourselves or compromise with ourselves or opt out of doing whats the best for us, we are putting one more nail on our own coffins. As long as we do not have the integrity to ourselves, it will not matter how good we are with the world, life will always be the short changed one that it always was. Your happiness, your health and your success depends on how you are with yourself, As long as you keep letting yourself down, it is but a matter of life letting you down as well.
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