This week on The Success Show, Chris and Suzanne Styles teach an in-depth lesson around integrity, and it’s impact on every part of your life. Using verses from a Rudyard Kipling poem, If, Suzanne highlights the congruency between Integrity and what it takes to be a successful person.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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About Chris and Suzanne Styles:

Between them, Chris and Suzanne Styles have over 30 years of hands-on experience gained from senior executive corporate roles as well as owning their own businesses. They host Africa’s only weekly business coaching talk radio show and have interviewed many of the world’s top mind and money experts. Their book Put The I Back In Team has challenged conventional leadership thinking. They are the only speakers and coaches who offer The Decisive ACUITY™ System, The Trading Mind™, African Entrepreneur Rising™, Mind Power Safari™, Mind and Money Safari™ and Branding Small Business Workshops™. For more information on Makes You Think