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Life becomes significantly easier when you’re able to live honestly with yourself When you fully master this quality, few things can really threaten you. You’ll find you have fewer problems and possess an innate sense of inner peace and calm. When you know and accept yourself for who you are as a person and are genuinely giving of your best, you don’t have to waste your time and energy trying to be anything else.

Being ‘in integrity’ means not only accepting responsibility for your actions, but also being true to yourself, having self-respect and taking good care of all aspects of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being. Are you doing the best for yourself and your body? Are you stressed out? Are you eating and/or drinking too much? Are you running on adrenalin? Are you overlooking problems? Are you avoiding telling the truth? Are you not taking adequate time for yourself?

A person who is ‘out of integrity’ is like someone whose spine is out of alignment – their total being is unable to operate at its optimum capability. When your life is out of integrity, things tend to go wrong and you’re highly likely to blame others. You’ll know when you’re out of integrity when there are significant gaps between what you say and what you do.

You can start to enhance your own personal integrity by identifying 10 areas of your life where you’re not currently telling the full truth – either to yourself or others. List them and then write next to each one the actions you will take to address it and the date by which you will have completed them.

I’d like you to tackle two of these issues each week over the next month or so until you know you’re living a fully authentic life.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!

William James