Herpes and integrity

0:01Hey so I missed day seven um of This Hour of Power and it's getting to me uh you know I have a great excuse actually to even start off with that doesn't feel right since where I was this weekend was just amazing like helping facilitate this really heartfelt and beautiful and deep and loving seminar up in washingt DC and it was it was just inspiring to be a part of it and uh really inspires me for the seminar that I'm putting on at the end of the month herpes opportunity weekend seminar Shameless plug cuz that's what this is all about right shamelessness um and I just love being involved in this work it's it's just beautiful and it feels so good and that's actually the reason you know that's actually my excuse is that Saturday morning I um I was supposed to do my hour of power and instead woke up early and went to ...

1:36... help out with the seminar and never got around to doing The Hour of Power and there's all sorts of things in my head of like well you know I had a whole day of power I had a whole day of love helping out with that seminar and it was beautiful and it was inspiring and and that's a good excuse and then there's a part of me of like well I didn't do what I said that I was going to do and that's a hit on my integrity and I was almost not even going to say that on this video because who knows who would see this video and be like oh my gosh you you fell back on your integrity and they'll judge me and all that kind of stuff and but what's most important here is that I'm noticing that part in myself that almost just gave up on the whole idea because I messed up or because I just I didn't do what I said I was going to do one day and I'm focusing on that one day instead of focusing on the previous six that I did in a row and I got up and I did it and it was awesome and it's almost like that one day of failure wipes clean the six days of success and it's fascinating to me like that I would that I would allow ...

3:00... that to happen um and I think it's probably human nature but interesting to to see and and if one hit on Integrity is going to have me stop doing something that's really actually been totally fulfilling to me and and and good for me um then that's some pretty powerful failure right I'm I'm actually making failure out to be more powerful than it actually is maybe maybe instead I get to see that and say wow okay I I messed up and I'm going to make a decision in this moment to continue that much with that much more integrity and with that much more dedic ation instead of just giving up and saying okay well I messed up that one time oh well and stop it all together I noticed tons of times in my life where I've done that like for the with the gym or you know with a relationship or whatever like I I ...

4:20... wouldn't allow myself Second Chances or third chances I would just give up and tying this back into having herpes and living a life of integrity and what does that mean does it mean that we're never going to mess up does it mean that we're never going to to not fulfill our word gosh I hope that we always fulfill our word I hope that we're always holding ourselves to a high level of integrity and and doing our damn best to live up to that and not have any excuses for it and we're only human there's this like tight RPP feeling of on one side yeah holding myself to the highest integrity and expecting the absolute best and on the other side if I fail or if I don't quite reach that level don't have that mean that I'm just going to not have integrity from then on but have compassion for myself in the failure ...

5:44... and having that be an opportunity for me to move forward and continue with what is working and continue with integrity and with that compassion for myself I can have compassion for others and it ripples out so that feels complete so until next time