Awards mean so much more when you’ve earned them “on your honor.” When you say those words from the Girl Scout Promise, you’re acting in a way that makes you feel proud of yourself.

So when you start out on your Girl Scout adventures, from going on a Journey and earning leadership awards to sharing our legacy by earning badges, you have a decision to make.

You can do the least amount possible to earn the award – choosing activity options you’ve already done in school or figuring out which ones would be the easiest and fastest to complete. You can do the awards your friends are doing without putting a lot of thought into figuring out what’s best for you. That may be the fast track to decorating your uniform, but it may not be the example you want to set, or the kind of life you want to set in motion.

The other option is to act on your honor as you take time to explore the new topics and ideas that are most important to you. Choose some options that make you stretch a little or work a little harder to meet a challenge (even when you think you can’t), get you to meet new people (even if you fell a little shy), and help you open your heart and imagination.

This process means adding awards to your uniform a little more slowly – and finding your own path – but you’ll treasure your awards more because you will know you truly earned them and why each one matters to you.

And when you do this, you’ll be part of a proud tradition, because Girl Scouts have a century –old tradition of earning awards on their honor.

We live the Girl Scout Promise and Law

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