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Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one’s actions. For me, Integrity means “being true to ourselves and others” and “knowing and doing what’s right.” During the life-class, I got the opportunity to identify acts of integrity through some written scenarios. Scenarios for discussion are the focus of this lesson during the sharing throughout the session.

In nutshell I like the session

Identifies the fear and obstacles, understanding of forgiveness and collaborative session of VK helped me to understand different perspectives and stories. This shows my understanding about the session – Understands the truth  – Acceptance – Forgives to own selves as well others and light up actions to achieve the goal and live life happily. I believe these steps could help me to deal with any kind of situation and grow.

How many times do we reflect on actions and reactions of past , present and future. How many times we hold on to things that hurt us only. Time to let it go. Let the past not decide what I am today or stop me from what I want to be or what I want to do. Present is in our hand. So this life class proved to be the light house which directed this lost ship towards a safe harbor. The harbor of peaceful life. I was really touched by the incidents shared by the others and realized that everything is not going to be as we wish or plan but how do we come out of these obstacles, not blame ourselves and others for the same and make the best of what we have and what we can do.

We have a session by VK, which was really intriguing. One of the most peculiar things that we realised from the session was the introspection on how often we blame people for something, because of-course, that is the most easiest of easy resort. We further had a discussion on how ‘legitimate’ it is to blame others for something happening to us. There was comparatively a lot of sharing.

We all have been talking about our fears. We even revisited back to the level of fears, which definitely now I have a greater clarity about, and I am able to categorise my fears better. One major takeaway  from the session was – ‘Acceptance is the key’. Because I fell, that lack of acceptance is the reason that we tend to blame others and put others into positions of guilt in our lives, which is harmful for both us and them as well. Our conversations revolved around fear, guilt, acceptance and forgiveness. We had to write a forgiveness letter, which i wrote to myself, for time and again blaming me/myself for prioritising things over others, this was surely liberating and made me realise things I had been blaming myself for, but had not even realised or introspected on.

We concluded the session with people sharing their fears from their RAP sheet. And like i always say, it is always good to have a conversation with someone on the outside rather than having it within your brain!

The life class was more like living it. I know for a fact that if I had read the book 7 Habits, even though I would have gained all the knowledge, I am sure none of it would have actually transferred to my day to day life. The life class taught us to bring our understandings to life and for that, I am really grateful. As we learned each habit with examples and activities, they got infused in my day to day life as well. Without consciously thinking about it, I found myself working on the lines of these habits.

Normally as we grow older, personal growth just becomes a really low priority, and even though people make plans, very few of them come to fruition. Life class is this one opportunity where all you have to focus on is on you, and this has been a truly wonderful opportunity for growth. I have learned a lot and have applied some in my everyday life. It’s something that has been really helpful and has kept me more organized. Life class was a good platform to share and learn, I would like to believe it has helped me come at least a tiny bit out of my shell.

Session by HOS and then some sharing from individuals, lot of paradigm shifts, lot of introspection…….today was filled with all sharing their results, actions and paradigms. When we listen to others, we surely learn and gather courage that yes, we are not the only one. We all have problems, fears, but how we deal with them is all about integrity. Overcoming own fear cannot be enough, as the journey is still on, but practice makes one perfect and when we get to deal with our fears, it surely make things easier. This is my take away form today’s session. Rather than blaming circumstances, people…forgiveness should be chosen and that indeed is for your good. Somewhere you fear to forgive too, may be for its after effects, but nai maaf kar ke ya baat daba ke rakhne se bhi kaha kuch milta hain?

I wrote a poem as a part of forgiveness letter and while drafting it, I felt that yes, I have moved much ahead of all such issues..rather chote issues now what I quote them as because that made me waste my energy and emotions in wrong direction. To conclude, Life journey is colorful and it is going to show a lot of phases, let us gather experiences out of each shade and phase. We tend to blame, somewhere we have to stop and make use of our situation as our victory weapon. We learn from such obstacles, may be we create memories, or move ahead carrying that as an experience.

Title of the book: Eat the Frog

Author: Brian Tracy

The genre of the book: Self-help

Key Characters of the book: Individual who is reading the book

The plot of the book: TIME MANAGEMENT! The entire book revolves around this idea. Full of actionable tips, Eat That Frog provides 21 techniques and strategies to stop procrastinating and get more done. Practice these principles every day until they become second nature to you. When these habits become a part of your personality, your future will be unlimited. Just do it! Eat that frog.

Your personal opinion about the book: One might feel that there are things repetitively mentioned but its worth giving a try. Obviously, he does that for a reason. Those principles are so simple, yet incredibly powerful when applied in our lives.

Have you read something like this before? Can you talk about that experience ?: Most of it I find similar to “7 habits of Highly Effective People” and the recent read “Who moved my cheese”.

Should people read this book ?: Anyone interested in becoming more productive or anyone struggling with procrastination or anyone who needs some motivation and a kick in the pants can read this book.

Key takeaways:

There is never enough time to do everything. But there is always enough time to do the most important things. Identify what are they?

Learn to deliberately put off low-value tasks so you have enough time to do the few things that really count

Three Steps to Mastery in Your Field – First, read in your field for at least one hour every day.  Second, take every course and seminar available on key skills that can help you. Third, listen to audio programs in your car or whatever means you are traveling or do a small chunk of work while traveling.

Blocking your time in chunks and putting it on the calendar. I can personally vouch for this.

The solution is to focus on one step at a time.

Today’s session was well planned, movies were well connected and learning from all movies will help to overcome fear and getting off the pain. Overall learning so far from sessions “Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness”.