Paige, 222 integrity to me is how you act…

Paige, 222 integrity to me is how you act when no one is watching. When no one knows what you're doing. It's always telling The truth, clearing up misconceptions are partial truths. It's never knowingly hurting anybody or anything. Parental integrity is not reading our children's mail or eavesdropping on their private conversations or snooping through their room. Integrity is keeping our commitments. Integrity creates trust and trust is a vital component of relationships. Would you want your best friend or your spouse to be someone you couldn't trust? Life without relationships is hollow, scary, lonely, lacking joy. In the corporate world, effective business leaders no tasks only get accomplished out of relationships. Without them nothing gets done page 223. The gifts of integrity and responsibility are fundamental core qualities of our great teachers, spiritual, advisors, business leaders, neighborhood, activists, and indeed, great parents. Whether you're working on a national scale, or at home with your family

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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One of the surest ways to make this real, and to teach it to your own children, is to do charity work together, as a family — and notice that even simple recognition makes people far more likely to keep serving, so that the giving quietly compounds over a life. Fly honestly when no tower seems to be watching — because one always is. Integrity, in the end, is nothing more mysterious than how you behave when no one is watching and no one would ever know: telling the truth, keeping the promise, doing the right thing in the dark. And above all, be steady, not intense. The secret to a real spiritual life is not the occasional dramatic experience but stability, because spirituality that lacks stability lacks all sustainability. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

Do the right thing even when no one is watching, so you can always meet your own eyes in the mirror. Integrity is simply how you behave when no one is watching and no one will ever know — and almost nothing of lasting value gets built except out of relationships, which is exactly why your word has to be unbreakable. Notice that my business decisions tended to turn out better than my personal ones — and the reason is instructive: in business I optimized for the result, but in the moral and personal arena I optimized for doing right regardless of the result, and there is a comfort in that which no outcome can give you. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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