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Discussion: The Importance of Integrity 

Personal integrity is doing the right thing, even when there is no one else around to hold you accountable. It is being accountable to yourself and what you have outlined as the right way to conduct yourself in line with your attitudes and values. Integrity is what makes a person trustworthy. Trustworthiness is the base of good interpersonal relationships and relationships are key to mental well-being and resilience. The can be proven by looking at those who act without integrity. Even supervillians in movies and books have relationships with others that support them and aide them in moving forward. 
Walking in integrity is extremely important in both personal and professional avenues. Because lack of integrity can destroy relationships, those who do so will find themselves in situations where they will be alone in business and in life. We are built for connection and going life alone, due to lack of ability to do what you say you will do can lead to detrimental outcomes. Personally, conducting yourself this way will lead to isolation and loneliness, professionally, this will lead to failures in business and business related relationships will crumble as people are let down by the absence of trust and support.  Get top-rated assignment assistance now!
Keeping your word to others is weaved into integrity because this is what makes someone reliable. When you are not a reliable person, you will not be asked to take part in important meetings, events or conversations. Not doing what you say you are going to do is a form of lying, and liars cannot be trusted. It is important to consider carefully what you may or may not be capable of doing in the present and future when negotiating with others and making commitments for the future. 
This prompt is considerably convicting to me. Over the past 6 years, I have learned to stop making promises and deals with others that I do not know if I will be able to keep. It is easy to get excited in the moment, say yes, and later regret that decision for a myriad of reasons. I have learned that my mood and perspective of the commitment may change in the future so I need to sometimes delay my response for a day to understand if I got caught up in excitement or will be overextending myself to meet the expectations of the promise. This has led to a swing too far in the opposite direction. I find myself giving answers that are non-committal in all areas rather than narrowing down the areas that I can commit to and show up to regardless of mood. I believe this is something that will improve as I work on walking in integrity to myself. As I move through life, I need to figure out how I am overcommitting in things to myself, leaving many tasks unfinished and adding to mental drain which significantly slows my progression towards my goals. I need to create personal standards for myself and practice living up to them so that I will be able to confidently hold clients to their own standards without feeling guilt for encouraging them to do things that I fail to do myself (Williams & Menendez, 2015). This could cause me to be too lenient in some areas leading to a lack of progression for the client, which will be detrimental to having a successful coaching business. 
Integrity falls easily under the scope of building positive relationships, both with others and yourself. As mentioned before, living without integrity leads to unreliability and being perceived as a liar, and liars do not flourish in relationships, let alone add positivity to them. This is also in line with the way God intends us to live-- "let your 'yes' mean 'yes' and your 'no' mean 'no'. Anything more than this is from the evil one" (Matthew 5:37). It is important to hold consider your commitments and words and live up to them when the time comes so that you are not perceived as untrustworthy, liar, and begin to erode your relationships.