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My word is getting sloppy

Late, half-done, 'I meant to.' People smile and stop counting on you.

Diagnosis

Character is just your average kept promise. Sloppy word is how leaders become noise. Repair is possible. Image management is not repair.

Protocol

  1. 1List every open loop you have promised. All of them.
  2. 2Keep, renegotiate, or kill each one this week. Silence is a third betrayal.
  3. 3Shrink future yeses until your average is clean again.

The standard: A short list of yeses you actually keep.

…who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind.

Psalm 15:4