THE INTEGRITY MOMENT: MAKING POWERFUL CHOICES IN LIFE

by Linda Tobey and Tobey

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078728128X
• ISBN13: 9780787281281
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A dynamic book about decision-making that changes the self

The Integrity Moment: Making Powerful Choices In Life by Linda Tobey (Master Certified Coach, Life Foundations) is an invaluable self-improvement treatise that focuses on understanding the specific moments in life when one's own values, mores, and gift of reason brings forth options to further the growth of one's moral, spiritual, and emotional integrity. From the value of negotiation to respecting oneself and offering one's own integrity to the world, The Integrity Moment is a dynamic book about decision-making that changes the self as surely as it changes the world around the self. Highly recommended for personal self-help reading lists and community library self-improvement reference collections.

What do I want to do with the rest of my life?

Last year I watched every minute of the Bill Moyers PBS series on end-of-life issues. One interviewee, talking about new choices we might make once we really realize that we are not immortal, said "Well, you know, death is really just the sugar of life." The day after the last show, I decided to leave my long-time job - at age 55! - and make time for other goals and things I have long wanted to do. "The Integrity Moment" is helping me create each new step of 'what I want to be when I grow up.' What I especially love about this book is its notion that I can keep working on integrity and authenticity. These are not far-away states that I might someday attain. Rather, in each decision I make about how to act in a certain situation, I can choose to act with integrity. Most important to me at this point in my life, "The Integrity Moment" shows me that if I goof up today, I will have other chances tomorrow to act more in line with my truest self. I also appreciate the idea that integrity involves both me and a particular situation - and that I can negotiate each situation. This is literally the best guide book for me right now. It's so easy to read, and so full of real people's stories. I feel that I'm travelling the road of my new life with lots of close friends, who are showing me how to live with the deepest integrity. Join us!

I Was Transformed!

I followed the words on the cover of this book, which were to "Drink in this book." I could not put it down -- literally. This book talks about how we are the most important actors in the shaping of our lives, and the way we do this is very much based on our "core values", which we understand more deeply as we apply them in our daily life decisions and reflect on those experiences.I enjoyed the methodology and the stories that the author, Linda Tobey, documents and shares in this book -- stories that are based on her personal experience and those of others. I appreciated most of all the stories where the author "thought Small", meaning the choices she made deviated from her core values. She reflects on those experiences, and shares her personal transformation to build a stronger inner strength to "think Big".I interact with my books by folding pages. A bottom corner fold means "useful, come back", and a top fold means "fantastic, journal about this." This pages has a total of 36 bottom corner folds and 24 top corner folds. I highly recommmend it to anyone who seeks to make better choices that make them feel more empowered and stronger. I plan to use the wisdom in this book to think and act "Big".

Speaking From Experience

This lively, practical and empowering gem of a book, firmly based on the author's doctoral dissertation, is wonderfully accessible to all readers. Tobey recognizes that each of us has moments when we feel "right" about how we've handled a particular event and those when we feel disappointed in ourselves. She calls these times Integrity Moments, links them to our most strongly held values, and offers readers many concrete ways in which to act with integrity. She illustrates her ideas using brief, but potent, life stories, some of them based on her own experience. She acknowledges the many stumbling blocks we encounter on the way to acting with integrity and suggests ways in which to frame our actions to allow us to move on with self-acceptance and courage: "In Wonderland, Alice learned how to be Big. By experimenting, she discovered that nibbling a particular chunk of a Wonderland mushroom would help her grow, and if she wanted, she could taste a different piece to shrink. Delightfully, chunks of the mushroom are available for each of us, too....." To read this book is to take a chunk of the "growth-promoting" side of the mushroom.....it will make you feel Big.