High-Integrity People Do These 7 Things

Leave the world better than you found it.

What does it mean to live with integrity? To look back at your own past and consider it a “good” life lived by a “good” person? I wonder about this often, and consistently strive to show up better every day for the people I love — but also the people I’ve never even met.

Life has changed a lot for all of us over the past couple of years. Covid, employment crises, quarantines, crazy housing markets…

The only thing that we can control every day is how we choose to conduct ourselves in the world.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have varied experiences in life that have both grounded and elevated me. I’ve been many different people and lived many different lives — and at the end of the day I am confident that the most important endeavor remains to live a life with integrity and honor.

How do we do it? Here are 7 lessons I’ve learned along the way:

1: Help those you can, whenever you can.

I find myself observing people often these days. Not just observing though, but absorbing. Absorbing what they are feeling in the moment. The challenges they are facing. The simplicity of sitting down alone at lunch. The struggle of scaling the third…