Editing is a positive process. You edit a film, a book, a blog post, or a podcast interview to make it better—clearer, more compelling, whole, and true to what you plan. The same principle applies to how you edit yourself.

You can edit the way you live and work, checking and refining to create integrity—living consistently as one person across all situations.

But there’s another way to edit yourself, and it’s not healthy. This involves constantly adjusting who you are around different people—being one person at work, another with family, yet another with friends. This fragments you, creates internal stress, and requires exhausting mental energy to maintain multiple personas.

I made a choice years ago to be the same person—one way in all aspects of my life, whether at home, at work, with friends, or family, in every situation.

Integrity is my north star, my most important core value. Living this way is actually easier, not harder. When your values, words, and actions align consistently, there’s no cognitive overhead from compartmentalizing different versions of yourself.

Integrity is fundamentally about truth—your truth and the facts of how you live your life. There’s the truth of who you are at your core, and there’s the factual truth of your daily choices. Integrity is when these two truths align perfectly. Your biography matches your beliefs. The evidence of your life confirms who you say you are.

This isn’t about being inflexible or refusing to adapt to different contexts. It’s about having a fixed internal reference point that guides all your actions. You can adjust your approach while maintaining your authentic core.

Integrity isn’t a one-time decision—it’s a daily practice. Every conversation, every choice, every moment of potential compromise becomes an opportunity to either strengthen your wholeness or chip away at it and sell your ‘self’ out. Small compromises accumulate quickly if you’re not vigilant.

The choice is yours: Edit yourself toward integrity and wholeness, or fragment yourself trying to please everyone. One creates genuine ease and clarity. The other creates internal chaos.

Choose wholeness. Work at it daily. Be one person, one way, everywhere you go and in all you do and think. Don’t play around with integrity.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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