Well good morning and congratulations on making it to Friday. I must say, there is nothing like a good rant to get people thinking and talking. I appreciate or your feedback in the form of comments, emails and conversations. Thank you, Judy, for the correction on the test name!!! When I auto spell checked, the computer did it’s “own,” thing and I did not catch it! But more importantly thank you for explaining the difference between it and a traditional glucose tolerance test. For those of you who believe in the right to privacy, it’s not at all that I don’t agree. I do! However, I think when you promote and are passionate about something, and you put yourself in the public eye, you have a certain moralresponsibility to have good integrity. I can only use myself as an example and I think that it’s important for me to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I honestly cannot really separate my private life from my “business,” because they are in many ways, one and the same. If I were to go out and get a tummy tuck and let my students and clients think that I earned those abs thru diet and exercise, but then decided several years later that I could make some money hooking up with the plastic surgeon and writing a book, I think that would be a terrible, terrible case of “misleading” my “people.”
That said, I guess I can only speak for myself and do what I feel is right for me. I have learned some big lessons about integrity and I always hope to keep those lessons in the forefront of my mind as I go through life. Doesn’t mean this peace and fitness chick can’t get on a rant sometimes! I did love ALL the feedback (and did have a lot of traffic thru the site!) and will respond to the private messages later today. Thank you and I will leave you with this quite simple quote by a very extraordinary man.
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
~Abraham Lincoln
I have never heard that Abe quote before. It’s really quite profound.
Thanks for all the food for thought in yesterday’s blog Bonni – I heard this quote about morals and ethics in a movie once and it’s always stuck with me. The ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. The moral man actually wouldn’t.
It seems to me that many people (in the public eye or not) are indeed ethical, but fall slightly short when it comes to morals. It comes down to the difference between thoughts and actions. And actions – as they say – speak louder than words.