Honesty, Sincerity, and Integrity

Speak with honesty. Think with sincerity. Act with integrity. — Valorie Kondos Field.

I learned as an athlete that if you wanted to know about a teammate’s integrity you didn’t watch how he acted on the field, but how he behaved off the field. Make excuses about being late to class, and you will make excuses about missing a block instead of trying to do a better job the next play. Have a sloppy room or poor hygiene habits in the dorm, and one is likely to be undisciplined on the court. Treat a teacher with disrespect, and one will ignore the coach at a critical time in the game.

God does not expect us to be perfect, but he does ask of each of us that we wake up with a plan to be honest, sincere, and go about our day with integrity.  It’s not a bad mantra for one’s mantra during meditation.

Honesty, sincerity, and integrity. Say it five times in the morning and it will start to take hold.

 

 

 

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.