笔记11 Success Secret 11 Be absol

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.

—CLAUDE M. BRISTOL

PERHAPS THE MOST valued and respected quality you can develop is a reputation for absolute integrity.

Be perfectly honest in everything you do and in every transaction and activity.Never compromise your integrity. Remember that your word is your bond and your honor is everything when it comes to business.

Yourcharacter is the most important asset that you develop in your entire life, andyour character is based on the amount of integrity that you practice.

Thefirst key to integrity is to be true to yourself, in all things.

Integrityis demonstrated internally by personal honesty and externally by quality work.

Thesecond key to integrity is to be true to the other people in your life.

Here isa question for you to ask and answer on a regular basis: What kind of a world would my world be if everyone in it was just like

me?

Thisquestion forces you to set high standards for yourself and keep raising thebar. Act as though your every word and action were to become a universal law.Carry yourself as though everyone were watching you and patterning his or herbehavior after yours. And when in doubt, always do the right thing, whatever itis and whatever it costs.

ACTION EXERCISE

Almost every problem in your life can be resolved by a return to your values. What are they? What do you believe in and stand for? Whenever you experience stress of any kind, it usually means that you are compromising one of your values. Whatever it is, resolve this very minute to be true to what you really believe to be important in your life.