Being Honest and Open
My grandparents believed that you were either
honest or you were not. There was no middle ground.
They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room
wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I
choose to walk every step will show." They didn't have to
talk about it; they demonstrated this truth in their
lifestyle.
They understood instinctively that integrity involves
having a personal standard of morality and boundaries
that does not sell out to convenience and that is not
relative to the situation at hand. Integrity is an inner
compass for judging your behavior.
Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today — and
getting scarcer. But it is the real bottom line in every area
of society and a discipline we must demand of ourselves.
A good test for this value is to apply what I call the
"Integrity Triangle", which consists of three key
principles:
Stand firmly for your convictions when confronted
with personal pressure. There's a story told about a
surgical nurse's assistance during her first day on the
medical team at a well-known hospital. She was
responsible for ensuring that all surgical instruments and
materials were accounted for during an operation. The
nurse said to the surgeon, "You've only removed 11
sponges, and we used 12. We need to find the last one."
"I removed them all," the surgeon assured her.
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