Success Chases Integrity

I've always heard this expression, but it's only very recently that I've come to understand it.

Where to begin? We talk a lot about the Law of Attraction on this website, as it is such an essential ingredient to success. Let me explain how the Law of Attraction is related to integrity.

Most people (and here we're talking about "average" people, not necessarily people like you and me) don't keep their promises. They blather on and on and don't mean half of what they say, and then they don't take responsibility for the rest of what they say.

For example: you probably someone who is always complaining about how their job sucks. They aren't even looking for another job, or for a way to make their job less sucky, they just complain about it. So according to the law of attraction, what are they attracting into their reality? More suckiness, on and (bonus!) off the job. Yet they never take responsibility that they are the ones creating the suckiness by thier constant whining about it (not to mention actually taking responsibility that it was THEIR choice to take the job and it remains THEIR choice to continue in teh job). They say things like "this new boss is killing me" and then they wonder why they get an ulcer or a heart attack. This is what I mean by "they don't mean half of what they say" and that they don't take responsibility for what they say that they do mean.

When you start to get in touch with what INTEGRITY means, you begin to monitor what you say, instead of speaking unconscoiusly. When you practice integrity, you don't go around telling people you're gonna do stuff you have no intention of doing.

For example, if you're practicing integrity, you wouldn't tell someone "let's get together some time" if you have no intention of doing that. It just wouldn't occur to you to say it unless you meant it.

Capisce?

OK, so then let's talk about how success chases integrity.

When you are focused on integrity, and I mean focused on living in integrity, you are practicing saying what you mean and meaning what you say. When you say what you mean and mean what you say, all you've gotta do is TAKE ACTION to do whatever you said you would do, and you're in integrity.

So simple, yet so few actually heed this magnificent advice. (YEs, it's magnificent -- it's not like I'm the one who made this up, so drop your story about how arrogant I am).

Seriously...if you say you're going to do something, and then you take steps (action) to do it, you are in integrity.

Still puzzled as to how this relates to success?

Well, let's take a look at your goals. And don't tell me you don't have any goals...if that's true, do yourself a favor -- stop what you're doing and go here. Buy it, read it, live it. Seriously, and it's less than 20 bucks, so I don't want to hear your lame excuses.

Now, about those goals you have. If you say you're going to do somehting (anything), especially if it's in the form of a goal, and you take the actino required to make that goal a reality, then naturally you will achieve success. In this case, we're defining success as the ability to set and achieve your goals.

It's impossible to NOT achieve your goals if you are in integrity and you persist wihtout exception.

But persistence is a topic for another day.

So if you're not achieving your goals, then it's time to take a look at where in your life you're out of integrity. In fact, that leads me to our QoD (nice segue, eh?):

Where in your life are you out of integrity, and what action can you take beginning RIGHT NOW to get into integrity? How will this ultimately assist you in achieving your goals?