I've taken a series of what I will call "personal development" courses through a company called Landmark Education Corporation. I've found them extremely helpful in a number of areas of life, including learning how to better prioritize, set, and keep specific short- and long-term goals and commitments. Landmark Education's articulation of the values of integrity and responsibility has been very useful as well - so I quote them below.

Integrity

The dictionary defines integrity as: “firm adherence to a code of values; the quality or state of being complete or undivided.” There is no real possibility for power without integrity. When we are “out of integrity,” something is broken, and we suffer. As integrity is restored, there is a new source of power.

There are three levels of integrity:

Keeping commitments (to others and to ourselves)
Being true to one’s principles
Being true to oneself

Responsibility

The dictionary defines responsibility as “moral, legal, or mental accountability.” Responsibility starts with saying you are cause in the matter. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame, or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what’s so, and your stand.

Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the point of view that you are the generator of what you do, what you have, and what you are. That is not “the truth.” It is a place to stand.

No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself – an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life.

© 1995 Landmark Education Corporation