One thing I know for sure—Your financial foundation is only as strong as your personal integrity.
The word integrity comes from a Latin root, meaning wholeness or entirety. Integrity demands your words and deeds consistently reflect your deepest truths.
Or, as A Course in Miracles puts it, “There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do.”
Whenever you’re settling for less than you truly desire, working at a job you hate, making excuses, rationalizing, spending money you don’t have, not honoring your most cherished values and authentic truths, you’re out of integrity, giving away your power and sabotaging your success.
Conversely, you take back your power by consistently living your authentic truth moment by moment.
Yet as I also know for sure, it’s as easy to slip out of integrity as it is for a dieter to slip in extra calories, never realizing that’s what we’re doing.
However, embracing integrity through joyful work, disciplined spending, ample earnings, habitual savings, and prudent investing are sacred tools for not only living your best life but improving the lives of others.
Whenever life gets hard, doors won’t open, I feel out of sorts—I ask myself these two questions:
- Where am I out of integrity?
- How can I correct that?
Because in the end, financial success is far more than a practical process. It is a spiritual practice, a healing journey, a Rite of Passage into our power…all of which demand our upmost integrity.
Where are you not living in integrity? Tell me about it in the comments below.
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