Welcome to our final video training session.

I hope you have selected a date for your personal retreat. I believe that your taking a personal retreat in the next 12 months is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, your family and your organization.

Now, it has been a joy for me to share the six pillars of integrity with you. My desire is that what you have learned will help you live and lead with integrity.

Now, in this final session, I want to share four important ideas that will help you to live and lead with integrity long after this video training is concluded. So here are four ways that you can sustain your integrity:

The first thing that helps me sustain my integrity is to celebrate the benefits I have gained from pursuing this lifestyle. As you know, what gets celebrated gets repeated. My habit is, generally on Saturday morning, I enjoy my first cup of coffee and think about the six pillars of integrity and how it has influenced my past week. And sometimes I write down what I have observed and the lessons I've learned. Often I just think about these things, and then I look forward to the coming week.

Now, this practice of reflection has taught me that integrity can take a long time to produce rewards. However, the harvest does eventually come. And again and again, I see benefits rolling in from actions I took months or years earlier.

A second integrity sustainer is the including of others in your integrity journey. So let me illustrate this by inviting Colleen, one of our group, to come and hold two books. She's going to hold them at arm's length and shoulder height.

Now, Aristotle was right when he said that the antidote to fifty enemies is one friend. And in terms of integrity, we are better together.

Now, as Colleen holds these books, I want to remind you that we need other people who can be part of our integrity journey. I have five people who are part of my life in this way. These people ask me probing questions and keep me focused. They inspire me by sharing their journey, and they hold me accountable. These people are a profound source of encouragement. Sometimes, just knowing that they are there causes me to do my very best.

Now, one of the best ways to continue your development of integrity is to share what you've learned. I encourage you to consider sharing Integrity: The Best Foundation with some people you know, or your family. Perhaps you can consider a cohort. You could share the information you've learned with others, and you will discover it becomes even more transformational.

So, Colleen, how are you doing?

I could actually use some help.

So will this make a difference?

Yes.

So you started out feeling pretty strong. You're going to do what integrity required. But then you became weary. You started shaking. Do you see the illustration? Thank you so much Colleen.

When we seek to do things of integrity, often we feel "I can do this on my own." However, we're best to sooner or later have some people come around us. Contrary to common opinion, integrity is not just a private issue. Integrity thrives best in a trusting community.

Thirdly, a life of integrity requires reinforcement. Integrity takes personal commitment. Integrity benefits from a community of encouragement. And I have found that the third thing is that we need spiritual empowerment. When I pray and ask God to help me live with integrity, He gives me strength for my weakness. And He gives me wisdom for my lack of discernment. I found that a humble prayer and honest faith is a real source of help. With God's grace, a lifestyle of integrity certainly is possible.

Finally, what is the best motivation to sustain your integrity? I believe the supreme motivation for integrity is not in integrity's reward, not in corruption's consequences, nor in the restraints of a strong conscience. A great motivation is love. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonour others. Love is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects It always trusts. It always hopes. It always perseveres. Love never fails. And the invitation to live with integrity is not driven by legalism. It is an invitation to live with love. It is an invitation to do what is truly living.

Let me close with a reminder of what we learned in the very first sessions, during our introduction. There was a psalm that reminded us that, 'Happy is the person who walks in the counsel of the trustworthy, who stands in the mentorship of good people, who sits in the seat of the respectful. They will be like a tree planted by rivers of water. Their leaf will not wither, and whatever they do will prosper.' May integrity guide you and may integrity guard you each and every day. May integrity be the foundation upon which you live and lead.