Personal Integrity

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going
to know whether you did it or not.”
—Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

Be true to yourself and live your life with integrity. This has been a
message that keeps popping up in my subconscious mind these days. So
what does it mean exactly? What is your truth and personal integrity in
day to day life? For most of us it is just a way of being. A way we
have always lived our lives. It’s not something that one has to even
really think about.

However, I have had to do some real soul searching to realize that I
have not always lived by being true to myself and living with
integrity. I didn’t always have well defined boundaries. I did what I
thought was best at the time for me, but that didn’t always include
what was best for everyone around me. This is a difficult realization
to make. But it was an important one for me to admit to myself so that
I could change my path.

These days I know that I am consciously and subconsciously doing the
right thing, even if no one else knows it — and even if no one else
believes it. And that is the point. It is for me alone to know because
that is the life I want to live.