Life sometimes takes us on incredible journeys, and often those journeys are not in the direction we consciously choose.   Have you ever been in a situation where it your tempted to not be one hundred percent honest?  Most of us are tempted at some time or other in our lives to tell that white lie, or, not speak up, or keep that thing that really doesn’t belong to us.  Being 100% honest should be the easiest thing in the world, but its not society shows us that over and over and over.   

Sometimes it seems easier at the time, to just tell that white lie, we all think no one will ever find out, no one will know.   

Problem is someone does know, and that someone is the most important person in your world ~ its YOU! As kids we take that extra sweetie from the sweetie jar, or pick up dads spare change and take it to the local shop to buy goodies.  We hope no one will notice, and often they don’t, but what about how what we do affects us?  How does not being honest affect your life?   Do you sleep well at night? Are your relationships healthy and full of trust and love?   Chances are if you tell the odd fib, then you will be someone who doesn’t trust other people, did you realize that? 

This is simply because the standards and values we base our life upon are actually our own standards and values.  Simple hey!  

Have you ever experienced telling a lie to someone you love and then being caught out?  How did that feel? What happened, I guess when all hell broke loose, you felt that you didn’t deserve the anger of the other person did you?  And you probably tried to justify why you told the lie, or did what you did.  You may even have told the story over and over to a dozen people trying to clear your conscience.   

When you do something wrong, you know what you have done.  Knowing you have done something wrong, affects your self esteem, self worth, self respect, self acceptance, and no amount of justifying will ever allow you to get past the truth of the experience.  

To me life is simple if you don’t do anything wrong then you don’t have to spend all that energy and worry trying to cover your butt.  Instead you can spend that time, thinking on things that are happy, living life enjoying the time, the experiences, and the people.   

So remember next time when tempted, and you feel like lying to get yourself out of trouble think again, doing the right thing may be a little more difficult in the initial moment, but its far better long term.  You won’t be living your life feeling guilty, or feeling that something is going to happen to expose what you did or said.   

It takes courage to live life with honesty – integrity and by doing the right thing.   So at the end of the day who are you?  How do you feel about your life, your relationships?

And remember this:  from this moment on you can make the choice to be a person of courage, after all what are you afraid of?