Checking Your Integrity to Improve Your Confidence
Part of the Confidence For Dummies Cheat Sheet
The single most powerful step you can take to improve your confidence and power in the world is to restore your integrity. This checklist identifies ways that you can leak personal power and confidence and how you can build reserves.
| Each time you do this, you increase your personal power and confidence | Each time you do this, you reduce your personal power and confidence |
|---|---|
| Honour your word and keep your promises | Fail to back up your words with actions |
| Be honest with yourself and honest with others | Act or speak in a way that causes real harm to others |
| Accept people as they are and judge only their actions | Act superior to others or browbeat someone weaker than yourself |
| Treat others with respect and candour | Fail to act right because no one is watching |
| Let people know where you stand on important issues | Don’t give of your best |
| Be genuine and transparent with people; don’t deceive through silence or inaction | Don’t follow your own conscience |
| Be true to your values and purpose | Don’t practise what you preach |
| Live up to your standards and always do the right thing | Manipulate or mislead others (or yourself) |
| Admit and accept your own mistakes | Tell white lies to look good, or to avoid looking bad |
| Say what you mean, and mean what you say | Use bluff or bluster to get your own way |
| Walk your talk | Pretend to be anything other than your authentic self |
