Schedule an Integrity Day

A fellow career coach and friend, Angela Beeching shared a great article about Integrity Day – a targeted day when you collaborate with friends or colleagues to get things done. I’m a big fan of assigning accountability masters in life to give you a gentle nudge, or a firm kick, as need be to help you accomplish things on your list of goals.

Integrity Day is a similar concept and allows you to take back your integrity so you can be true to your word about completing something you have committed to, whether personal or professional.

So rally your circle of trust or your personal Board of Directors and share a short list of tasks you really want to accomplish. Recite your goals out loud with them and leave them with a written account of your action plan. These need not be monumental tasks – anything from revving up for more effective networking to assembling your professional portfolio and everything in-between will work. You are in charge.

You set the goals and your accountability masters will give you the reminders and support to ensure that you follow through. When you accomplish the task you will regain your integrity as a person of your word as well as the self-confidence to move forward with future goals.

This exercise will also give you an opportunity to prioritize tasks in your life. This is the perfect way to “do it, dump it, or delegate it” to someone else, according to the Integrity Day founders and assess what is most important in your personal and professional game plan.

So rally your troops, assemble your list, and pick a day to get your personal integrity back on track because you deserve it.