Week 7 is an important week for mindset work and our gratitude practice. This week, we will be flipping the sense of lack into a sense of wonder and excitement about what is to come.  By using our Integrity System inventory process, taking a look at what you need no longer blocks your progress. You may have pain to heal and emotions to untangle, and real need for resources, but together we will introduce the freedom and motivation that can come from knowing exactly what you need – and finding out how to get your needs met. A clear list of needs leads to a clear plan of action. Skills to get your needs met lead to the ability to help others from a secure and strong base.

This week, it’s time to focus on taking action - today, each and every day, and making sure you have a strategic plan going forward. There are so many methods available to you to achieve your chosen goal – but there are ways the best correspond to your personality, your working style, and your talents. Do you know when to give it your all and when to delegate? Do you know which skills you need to acquire next or which processes to employ to achieve your goal? What about your sense of joy and delight in your work and creativity? You will investigate how you approach and deal with challenges, and choose the most fun, manageable, and wonderful path forward towards your next destination in life – reaching your goal!

You are not alone, and an important aspect of your work is how you communicate about it with the rest of the world. It’s time to take a look at your visibility, and make sure there is coherence between your key messages and what others understand them to be. In week five you took time to make sure that your dreams and plans are in alignment with yourself, in harmony. Now it’s time to check alignment with your community, your culture, and any involved stakeholders – from your life partner and children to your peers, community and all of humanity – depending on the project at hand. Acting in coherence invites positive energy, resources, and the right information to practically fall into your lap. Showing up for your life in coherence opens the way for more positive interactions, constructive communications, and the synchronicity that conscious leaders experience on a regular basis.

It’s time to focus on important relationships – and to use so much of what you have already learned, remembered, and practiced using The Integrity System. Using the inventory process from the Have and Need Questions, you will be looking at team building through the lens of your current chosen focus. You will also experience gratitude this week – every time we use this Question with clients people discover that they have team members in their life that they had not been fully appreciating. Team science is so much more than collecting skills – it’s about people, and their passion and compassion, their curiosity and dedication, their why and their character. This question is part of our Sustainability unit because if you can’t sustain people, projects remain dreams. Together we’re better!

It’s so important to feel that you are a part of something greater than yourself. Nearly every conscious philosophy, human religion, spiritual practice, and leadership program highlights the importance of kindness, harmony with nature, and the legacy we leave for future generations. Whether within the framework of the UN's Global Sustainable Development Goals, to support a cause you are passionate about, or to heal, educate, or lead others – your goals are a part of a much bigger picture. When you can connect the dots about the impact of your daily habits, decisions, goals, and action steps to real and meaningful change, you can begin to design your legacy with pride in how you live each day. Do you walk tall to accomplish a task on someone else’s to-do list while feeling stressed and tired – or is your head held high because you are working towards the change you want to see in the world? When your positive impact becomes something you serve, you will be amazed at how quickly you feel the shift and see the results.  

It’s the end – and the beginning! Week 12 of Integrity works is a week for integration. It’s time to acknowledge how far you have come in 12 weeks of dedicating your most precious resource – your time – to the things that really matter to you. This week you will review your work and find that you have learned a system that you can use again and again, goal after goal, project after project to support you with both achievement and fulfillment. You will celebrate your growth and look ahead to see new possibilities. You will feel less fear and confusion – more hope, motivation, and even delight about who you are and the work you get to do in the world.