Doing the right things can sometimes be much harder than taking a short cut by doing the wrong thing.  This has been a lesson that has presented itself to a vast number of people on many occasions.  You hear about issues related to this everyday in the news when someone decided to make up their own rules or completely bypass the existing ones for selfish purposes.  A key difference is that having integrity means a lot more to yourself than to others around you.  This is what can allow you to sleep at night knowing that your conscience is free from having arrived at making intentional poor decisions which can have negative consequences.  We have the ability everyday to make decisions that can allow our day to take a turn for the better, if we think about how we reap what we sow.  Sometimes it does not take a a lot of sowing before you realize the fruits of your labor.  Then there are those other periods when you seem to be laboring in doing the right things for a long period of time and you just don't see the benefits you were expecting.  To this I say that sometimes the work is harder because your break through will be worth the longer wait.  As an example, think about an Olympic athlete and the many years that they train, day after day in order to be able to compete in their sport on the world's biggest athletic stage.  Not all of these athletes make it to the cover of a box of cereal or endorse any products for a multitude of money.  The majority of these athletes compete in their sport because they are passionate about it and most of them do it for little or no money.  Their incentive is that they could be called the greatest in their sport by winning a gold medal and to represent their beloved country in the process.  I believe if you were to follow any one of these athletes, you would see consistency and discipline in them doing things right in their training, while taking no short cuts in order to arrive at their intended goal.  We may not all be Olympic caliber athletes, but we can certainly live our days knowing that we are not bypassing anything for the purpose of immediate gain.  On the the contrary, we should be living and doing things right to be an example to our children and those that will come after us.  Imagine a world where everyone did the right thing and for the right reason.  We can dream that it can happen and we can make an effort on our own behalf to get there by walking towards it, one step at a time.