Monday, January 16, 2017

365 Exciting Ways to Live - Excitement # 44 : Check Your Personal Integrity Account

Check Your Personal Integrity Account
Rather fall with honor than succeed by fraud.
– Sophocles

A person’s financial creditworthiness is evaluated by analysing his bank account. The more you credit and the less you debit your account, the more will be your creditworthiness. If you are creditworthy, people will respect you.
Similarly, you are also building up your ‘personal integrity account’. Every time you promise something and keep up your promise, your personal integrity account is credited; every time you promise something and you don’t keep up your promise, your personal integrity account is debited. Finally, your credit and debit will be balanced to evaluate your creditworthiness as a person, in terms of integrity.
People evaluate you by what you say and what you do. Check for these following traits in you:
·         Do you over-promise and under deliver?
·         Are you late to appointments?
·         Do you tell lies?
·         Do you fail in your commitments?
The list is only illustrative and not exhaustive. If the answer to such questions is ‘yes’, you run the risk of damaging your personal integrity account and image!

Audit your personal integrity account periodically and take remedial action before it is too late!
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')

N C Sridharan
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