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

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
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waiting and listening for the guidance that always comes. When you
get an idea or insight into the right thing to do, you put it into ac-
tion. You trust your higher mind. This is the key to living in truth
with yourself and others.
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THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR OWN MIND
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay “Self-Reliance,” said,
“Guard
your integrity as a sacred thing.”
He went on to say,
“Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Truthfulness is the indispensable requirement for the develop-
ment of character, and the development of character must be a cen-
tral aim of your life. Aristotle said,
“The purpose of education is the
development of the character of the young.”
Today, in the United States,
many young people have not been brought up with a clear sense of
right and wrong. Many people have been told that values are 
rela-
tive
. Many people have been told, for example, that if they like to
shoplift, then that particular value is just as good as a person who
believes that shoplifting is wrong.
This form of value relativity leads down a blind alley. It leads to
failure, frustration, and unhappiness. The fact is that values are not
relative. There are values that are 
life-enhancing
and there are values
that are 
life-destroying
. If a value is positive, living by it improves the
quality of your life and your relationships with others. A negative
value hurts your relationships and detracts from the quality of your
life. You can easily tell the difference, because living by a positive
value makes you feel happy, and practicing a negative value makes
you feel unhappy.
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FACE THE TRUTH
Living in truth means that you face the truth about yourself and
the world around you. You face the truth about your work and
your relationships. You look yourself directly in the eye and you
live consistently with your innermost convictions. You do not play
games with yourself or wish and hope that things could be differ-
ent than they are.
Integrity means that you accept that your world can only get