

If you invalidate your employees don’t be surprised when they leave your company and join the competing business across town. If you invalidate your kids don’t be surprised when their hearts leave home seeking validation. WARNING: If you invalidate your spouse don’t be surprised when they find someone who validates them. When people share their frustrations do you immediately invalidate them by saying, “You’ll be fine. Here are 6 potential gaps in your integrity: Like a wake, integrity has two sides: Tasks (What you’ve accomplished) and Relationships (Are people better off having crossed your path? Would they want to do it again?).ĭoes your integrity have gaps? Of course it does. He uses the picture of a ship’s wake to describe integrity. So from the back of the boat, I intently stared at the boats’ wake. When we headed back to land, I needed to focus on something. Apparently, I’m not deep sea diver material. Eventually, I was leaning over the boat “feeding the fish”. After the short instruction class we loaded onto the boat with our rented diving gear.Īs the boat went across the water I immediately felt nauseous.

To celebrate our two-year wedding anniversary Ginger and I flew to Cancun in the summer of 1998.
