Take A Bite Tuesday on Chapter 8: Walk The Talk
Take a bite…
Take ten minutes today to audit congruence.
List the values, products, services, or behaviours you publicly promote at work or in your business.
Now look at your actual daily behaviour — at home, online, and in how you spend your money.
Ask yourself honestly:
Where am I fully aligned?
Where am I quietly contradicting myself?
Score each mismatch from 1–10 based on how uncomfortable or embarrassing it would be if it were publicly visible.
Pick one item scoring 6 or above and define a realistic first step to bring it back into alignment.
You don’t need to change everything overnight — but you do need to stop lying to yourself.
Because integrity isn’t about perfection. It’s about direction.
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I promote progress over perfection, collegiate working practices, life long learning and curiosity.
I also promote effective time management, goal setting and goal management.
I'm pretty good with my alignment across the board except I don't give myself enough sleep time, which has an impact by the end of the week. I'd say a 9 or 10 on everything except that, and for that I give myself a 5. And whilst I manage everything else effectively, I still don't exercise enough (I am in pain a lot so I have a ready made excuse which I sometimes hide behind). The poor sleeping patterns and the lack of exercise are areas I must improve in as this does affect my health overall.
A realistic first step is to go to sleep on average 1 hour a night per week rather than force myself to change my patterns immediately. Currently I am not typically settling down till 2am so for the rest of this week I will set a reminder to go to bed at 1am, and settle down no later than 130am. Next week, from Monday, I will settle down no later than 1am, which means bed no later than 1230am.