Living a Life of Congruence

Knowing your standards is one thing, but living by them is so much harder—and more important.

The key to consistent improvement is to continuously seek higher wisdom and better understandings of life’s biggest questions. Derwin Edwards/Pexels

If you want to be confident, be congruent. When your thoughts, words, and behavior align with your personal standards, values, and beliefs, you are living authentically and acting in congruence with what you understand to be good and true. When you act in contrast to your values, you'll feel a sense of unease and mistrust in yourself, and your confidence can quickly erode.

It’s one thing to understand right and wrong and to know how to handle various situations according to your highest standards. It’s another thing entirely to live according to such standards.