INTEGRITY: THE SECRET INGREDIENT TO SUCCESS
Integrity is the fuel that gets us to where we want to go.
We have very little control over our thoughts and feelings. Thoughts just pop into our head whether we like them or not. We also have an immediate emotional reaction to events and it is very hard to control those emotions.
The one thing we do have complete control over is our WORDS. We can consciously choose every word we utter. Therefore we can change our current reality by changing our words and committing to them instead of being controlled by our thoughts and feelings.
For example: I want to create a healthier lifestyle for myself so I decide that I want to exercise every morning. I use my words to create this new reality by saying. “I will be healthy. I will get up at 5am every morning to exercise.” Now, when my alarm goes off at 5am my thinking and feeling immediately come into play: I do not feel like waking up and exercising. I start thinking that I will sleep a little bit more and then get up, or I start negotiating with myself that I will exercise tomorrow etc.
Integrity means doing what I say I will by the time I said I would do it.
Therefore, in order to have integrity I need to commit to my word, not my thinking and feeling. So despite whatever I am thinking and feeling I need to do what I said I would do!
This is important because our subconscious brain is like a computer. It records everything that we say, think and do and keeps stats or records on that. Therefore, every time we say we are going to do something and we don’t do it, it records it as not done. This affects our self-rating or self esteem. Furthermore, this subconscious brain is completely factual and objective. It does not take any stories or excuses into account. For example, if you say you will be somewhere at 5pm and you arrive at 5:01, were you there at 5? No! Therefore, your subconscious mind notes that you failed to be there at 5 no matter what your excuse was, you were not there at 5. Our brain then works out the stats and rates us according to how often we keep our word. Then when we set ourselves a goal, our brain works out our proposed success according to the stats. For example, If you keep your word 60% of the time and your goal is to earn R60,000 per month, your brain will aim for 60% of that because that is what it sees your capability to be.
Therefore, the higher our integrity level, the more likely we are to attract exactly what we want into our lives.
We have very little control over our thoughts and feelings. Thoughts just pop into our head whether we like them or not. We also have an immediate emotional reaction to events and it is very hard to control those emotions.
The one thing we do have complete control over is our WORDS. We can consciously choose every word we utter. Therefore we can change our current reality by changing our words and committing to them instead of being controlled by our thoughts and feelings.
For example: I want to create a healthier lifestyle for myself so I decide that I want to exercise every morning. I use my words to create this new reality by saying. “I will be healthy. I will get up at 5am every morning to exercise.” Now, when my alarm goes off at 5am my thinking and feeling immediately come into play: I do not feel like waking up and exercising. I start thinking that I will sleep a little bit more and then get up, or I start negotiating with myself that I will exercise tomorrow etc.
Integrity means doing what I say I will by the time I said I would do it.
Therefore, in order to have integrity I need to commit to my word, not my thinking and feeling. So despite whatever I am thinking and feeling I need to do what I said I would do!
This is important because our subconscious brain is like a computer. It records everything that we say, think and do and keeps stats or records on that. Therefore, every time we say we are going to do something and we don’t do it, it records it as not done. This affects our self-rating or self esteem. Furthermore, this subconscious brain is completely factual and objective. It does not take any stories or excuses into account. For example, if you say you will be somewhere at 5pm and you arrive at 5:01, were you there at 5? No! Therefore, your subconscious mind notes that you failed to be there at 5 no matter what your excuse was, you were not there at 5. Our brain then works out the stats and rates us according to how often we keep our word. Then when we set ourselves a goal, our brain works out our proposed success according to the stats. For example, If you keep your word 60% of the time and your goal is to earn R60,000 per month, your brain will aim for 60% of that because that is what it sees your capability to be.
Therefore, the higher our integrity level, the more likely we are to attract exactly what we want into our lives.
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