: Ethics

Getting Started

The first step in preparing your PIIP is to test how well balanced your “wheel of life” is. What are your priorities in these areas of life?

Financial

Physical Fitness

Social

Family

Emotional Growth

• Spiritual Growth

Intellectual Growth

• Career Enhancement

Community Service

• Recreational

Does your investment of time and other resources match your priorities?

• On pages 38 through 40 in Intentional Integrity, MacAdam provides a survey to help you check your life balance. Go there now and see how you score.

A life that is dreadfully out of balance for too long reflects poor decision-making. Living such a life makes it more difficult to move forward in an optimal manner.

• Good intentions are not enough. Even with the best of intentions, we can make decisions and act in ways inconsistent with intentional integrity. As you learn more about your life, and more purposefully seek to maintain balance, you increase the chances that you will live your life with integrity.

There is another survey on pages 41 and 42 for you to rate the degree to which you function with high integrity at home and at work. Try taking the survey and see how you fare.

Resources

• File: Intentional integrity.PDF: Aligning your life with God’s values

• Background Information

Here is one way to think about your life purpose.

• A purpose statement describes why you exist, and what you want to be and to do.

As you prepare to write your life purpose statement, ask yourself what YOU exist to be and to do. Do you dare ask others to state, on the basis of observing your life, how they would summarize your life purpose? You might gain new awareness of both personal strengths and weaknesses.

• One way to help this process is to think about what you do best.

What usually goes well when you do it?

What are the passions of your life?

On what do people most frequently compliment you?

What brings you satisfaction?

Is there anything that is just “you?” You feel it. Other people recognize it.

Instructions

Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

On page 46, MacAdam outlines four spiritual components he feels should be included in your purpose statement. Take time to reflect on these elements.

How does each of them fit into your life?

If you are not a religious person, or if you do not enjoy a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you may feel comfortable omitting these components from your life purpose statement. But do not do this lightly. Take time to consider the religious components of your life and how they figure into your life purpose.

When you have completed your Life Purpose Statement, save a copy for yourself and submit the assignment using the link below or the Activities button.