• Do you act as you think? Are you transparent, coherent, direct and sincere?         

• Do you fulfill the commitments you have made?

• Are you discreet and do not use confidential information indiscriminately?  

• Do you recognize mistakes and know how to ask for forgiveness?       

• Do you take responsibility for what you do?

• Are you guided by principles or are you driven by circumstances and the pressure of your environment?

• Do you present the truth openly, at the right time and in a friendly way?

• If you find something that is not yours, do you consider looking for the owner? If you damage something that doesn't belong to you, do you look to fix it?

• Are you goal with yourself?

• Do you convey trust and credibility?

• Do you speak ill of others behind their backs?

• Do you handle economic and material goods consistently?

• You promise things you can't keep. You don't know the limitations.

• You don't recognize your own mistakes and blame others.

• You are indiscreet and are on the lookout for "bickering".

• You are easily manipulated and change your mind easily and to the surprise of others.

• You don't know which way to turn in some situations. You are inconsistent and fickle.

• You judge others hastily and when you should not.

• You blame others for your mistakes.

• You act differently than you think.

• You change your mind according to circumstances or people.

• You lack convictions that are the basis of your actions.

• You lack personal and professional priorities.

• You abandon projects before they are finished.

• You lack projects that excite and motivate you.

• Do you maintain consistency between your principles and values, on the one hand, and your decisions, on the other?

• Do you abide by principles or are you driven by circumstances?

• Am I an example for those who work with me?

• Do you evaluate yourself objectively or do you tend to think better of yourself?

• Do you know how to value what you have (material goods, enrollment college, etc.) or do you see it as an obligation from your parents?

• Do you ask others for their opinion about you? Do you get angry if you receive a bad review?

• Do you keep your commitments, even if they are sometimes a heavy burden?

• Do you postpone commitments because of personal interests? How often?

• Do you know how to recognize when you are wrong? Do you rectify?

• Are you honest with others, your parents, teachers, advisor, friends?

• Do you like to gossip? Do you often talk about others?

Perform the Life Compass exercise to become aware of what your fundamental principles are for you and in what order they are.
Do the results you obtained in the exercise correspond to what you live in your daily life? Depending on how you live them on a daily basis, discuss with someone you trust (advisor, your parents, a friend...) how to improve those that you are not living as you would like to.
Think and write 3-5 actions with which you can expose your principles in your daily life without making extravagances.

Integrity is related to not lying, but also to knowing how to tell the truth in the moments and ways in which it is required.
Therefore, locate the areas of your life in which you excuse yourself with lies (university, friends, at home...) and write them down in a list. Establish a goal and a deadline and, after that time, consider whether or not you have fulfilled them, raising the demand of the objectives as the weeks go by.
At the same time, add situations in which you keep quiet about things you would like to say (e.g., to a friend who you know is not doing well, to a teacher who has made an unfair judgment, saying no to a task you have been given but don't have time for, negotiating deadlines for a project, etc.) and follow the same procedure of goal-follow-up of section above. If you take it up with another trusted person (your advisor/a, a friend from higher education), it will be easier.

We all make mistakes, and we do not always ask for forgiveness for the times we have hurt others, or for the times something has gone wrong because of us. If you carefully read the Forgiveness document found in the resources in this section, you will learn the importance of forgiveness.
Take a moment to reflect, seeing if there has been a recent status that you hold a grudge about or that has gone wrong. If so, seek to ask for forgiveness and set yourself a deadline, always following the advice in the document.
At the end of that time, evaluate if you have accomplished what you set out to do and if there are new things to ask forgiveness for.

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Forgiveness: its importance and the power of inner peace of forgiveness 

Forgiveness can change our lives and the lives of those around us.

No matter if you are one of those who spread them or one of those who listen to them, talking about other people's lives when they are not in front of them does not solve anything, it does not financial aid to generate an atmosphere of trust and there will always be one or more victims.
If you are in a conversation in which there is a rumor or some information that speaks ill of another person, cut it before it touches the privacy of another person.
If you come to know something that is important, but it has been through conversations from unreliable sources such as rumors, go to the person they were talking about and ask them yourself.
Criticism of any behavior or action is constructive if it is made to your face. enquiry with someone you trust to help you on the best way to say it, but always say it to the person who caused it directly and in the best possible way.

To make the struggle for integrity easier, it is convenient to be in life surrounded by those people who help to maintain the values that one possesses. A simple example would be that of a person who wants to exercise. If she does not seek out others to accompany her, she will most likely end up giving up exercising.
So treat the people around you who live by agreement with your ideals, but without idolizing them, so that you all find it easier to follow that path. Don't be afraid to face transcendental conversations that will help you clarify these issues.
And finally, try to read (set yourself a goal of, say, one book a month) novels, articles or essays from which you can draw ideas or models of upright behavior and to consider the hierarchy of values. Ask your advisor for these readings, as well as other people who are in the habit of reading to help you.

The Moral Bucket List, David Brooks
This article is about what characterizes people who make a mark in personal relationships and, therefore, what steps we need to take to change our priorities for the better.

The bitter taste of gossip, Ximena Sanz de Santamaría
Explains the consequences of whispering and sharing rumors in relationships and in one's own interiority.

Correcting without offending; J. M. Rguez Porras

What are you manager? 11 questions that will put your integrity at test , Mª J. Elvía
The author translates from English some questions about how we would behave in special situations to make us reflect on the coherence of our behavior.

Values, a great asset in the family business . Josep Tapiès and Núria Vilanova

Forgiveness: its importance and the power of inner peace of forgiveness 

Forgiveness can change our lives and the lives of those around us.

The flower of honesty
Story for reflection

The Emperor's New Clothes
Story for reflection

First why and then trust, Simon Sinek
The talk exposes the reasons that lead a business to the separation between its motivations and its values, as well as possible solutions and how to avoid it. It can be extrapolated from the business world to, for example, personal relationships, the university world, and so on and so forth.

The Great Dictator (scene), Charles Chaplin

The Happiness Trap: Values vs Goals
This short video explains the importance of living on the inside, not at the expense of the goals we set for ourselves.

Honesty, Mario Velasco

The Newsroom (scene)
This series features a group of reporters who make a news program, in which they have set out to break out of the status quo of American media and do the work what it really means to be a reporter. In this video, the lead reporter presents to the audience the decision they have made to be a team manager that protects the truth.

How to spot a liar, Pamela Meyer
A talk presenting the attitudes and actions of people who lie, both intentionally and unintentionally. It serves to reflect on one's behavior in situations where one's authenticity and honesty are put to the test. test

The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan
In this film two characters, Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent, face a threat in the form of the Joker, the symbol of crime and corruption. It is interesting to see how their principles are put to test for each of the atrocities carried out by the villain and in the end how integrity prevails or succumbs to corruption. IMDB profile

The Emperor's Club, Michael Hoffman
Classics teacher Hundert is a newcomer to the school, where he will have to deal with the egos of the students who live there. Specifically, it will be Sedgewick Bell who will cause him the most trouble. The film progresses as the characters decide to act according to the lie - making it or covering it up - or with the truth in front of them. IMDB profile

Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney
With an all-star cast and a script based on historical fact, this film is set during Senator McCarthy's indictments and prosecutions of alleged communists as CBS tries to provide truthful information while standing up to the powers that be. However, at CBS's group there are secrets that must be uncovered in order for the team to face the truth. IMDB profile

questionnaire principled
This web page developed by two MIT professors makes you choose between several principles until you get to the 10 most important ones for you. From there things get more complicated and you will end up sorting those so that you know which are the 3 most important and in what order.

Life Compass, personal values
With this simple questionnaire, which alternates numerical ratings with those written by the participant, you can make a quick and accurate evaluation of the values that prevail in the participant.