In the training of character we sometimes work on single muscles but there are some qualities or virtues that are so profound and sophisticated that they are an entire muscle group.  Integrity is one of these.  Integrity includes responsiblity, honor/honesty and truthfulness.  This podcast explores the critical nature of telling the truth, always!  An otherwise accomplished life, full of hard work and sacrifice, can be ruined with one deviation from truth, with the telling of one lie.  Trust and integrity are hard fought victories but a single instance of lying can call it all into question.  When we lie we lose part of ourselves.  Integrity means "the state of being whole or undivided".  When we lie, things are based on a facade, a fabrication and the world, our world becomes unstable.  All lies are discovered, eventually.  The result is things fall apart  -careers fall apart, marriages fall apart, lives fall apart, trust crumbles.  That is a steep price to pay for not telling the truth.  Like so many things, telling the truth is like a muscle that grows stronger the more we use it.  It becomes reflexive and habitual.  Hence the need to tell the truth, always while we are young. The pressure to capitulate even a tiny bit becomes more intense as we grow older.  Those truth muscles need to be strong enough to hold together: integrity!