Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

BE TRUE TO YOURSELF
Honesty means that you are always true to the very best that is in
you. As Polonius says in Shakespeare’s 
Hamlet
,
“To thine own self be
true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false
to any man.”
Being true to yourself is the starting point of developing a great
character. This begins with your always living in truth with yourself.
You do not delude yourself or play games with your own mind.You
don’t try to believe things that are completely impossible.You don’t
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hope and pray that things would be different than they are.You deal
with the world as it is, not as you wish it were.
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ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST
Every job bears the signature of the person who did it. Being true to
yourself means that you always do your very best at whatever job or
responsibility you take on. Honesty and integrity on the inside are
expressed as quality and excellence in your work on the outside.You
can tell what you are made of on the inside by the amount of time
and attention that you put into doing the very best job possible at
everything that is given to you to do. Don’t take it on unless you are
willing to do it in an excellent fashion.
Integrity means that you are always truthful, straightforward,
and honest with everyone in your life. Just as you are true to your-
self, you are true to others as well. You 
live in truth
with others, at
home and at work.
If you ask people whether they are honest, almost everyone will
say that they are. Most people do not lie, cheat, steal, or engage in
dishonest behaviors of any kind. But being truly honest means that
you are honest with everyone in your life. This means that not only
do you never lie; you never 
live
a lie. You never stay in a situation
that is wrong for you or in a condition that undermines your in-
tegrity or makes you unhappy.You never compromise your integrity
by biting your lip and refusing to say what you truly think and feel.
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