Integrity

So what is this thing called integrity? I have always been taught that is Integrity is who you are and what you are doing when no one is looking. I have been thinking about the subject over the last couple of days. Being in business for yourself brings this reality of the neccesity of Intergrity to the service like a drowning person coming up through the sufrace gasping for are....Intergrity must be the air that we are gasping and striving for.....Why you ask??? Well, take a look around at the banking crisis (AKA Stupid Decisions Made) other top business collapses that have been pointed back at CEOs making big bonuses but running failing businesses.

I think we have to have Integrity in two places:

1) With our family.

I think it all starts here. I belive this because if you dont have integrity at home then you will not have it anywhere else. The relationships we build with our family will forshadow the relationships that we build in the business world. Think about it....When you tell your spouse the time that you will be home or that you pick up this or that on the way home; do you do it?? Or do you just pass it off as oh well I had to work. The appointments that we make at home must be the first ones that we keep. We also have to think how those missed appointments and how affects our family. We think as business people that we are showing our commitment to our family by the long hours, missed dinners, missed ballgames and missed recitals but in all reality it makes our family question our comittment to them. Intergrity is really just boils down to doing what you say your going to do....

I will talk about the other side of Integrity tomorrow..... 

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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth