Just like every day in our lives, we are faced with choices.  You can choose to walk across the street at the corner, or jay-walk and hope you don’t get hit by a car (or get a ticket).  These choices that we make on a daily basis shape who we become and can influence the choices we make later in life.

A good example is of my good buddy Chuck.  You see, he just about didn’t get into college because of the quality of his college application essay, so for the four years that he attended school, he would just go online, and order essays.  I honestly don’t think he wrote one of his papers that he submitted in college.

But, another good friend of mine, Sue, she is currently working on her MBA essay, and she has never cut corners on anything.  She gets good grades, but she sure works hard for them.

The biggest difference between the two of them is that Sue was accepted into the MBA program, but Chuck was not.  The reason Chuck wasn’t accepted was that even though he submitted a great essay, he couldn’t defend his ideas or opinions, but Sue could.

So, the next time you are faced with the decision of whether you should do your own work, or just pay someone to do it for you, be sure that you consider the consequences on your future - it may not be worth the risk.