🔥 Integrity Is Action, Not Intention · 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝙎𝙄𝙁𝙔 🍓🐛🦋🌈⭐️🩷

🔥 Integrity Is Action, Not Intention

Since October 31, I’ve been talking with this client. We’ve made multiple dates and plans for him to sign up and pay. Each time, he’s delayed or postponed — using excuses about his dad or waiting for jobs to come in.

Most recently, he promised to sign up and pay this past weekend. Again, the same excuse: he was “with his dad.” A quick check showed that wasn’t true — his dad is on Vancouver Island, he’s elsewhere. This pattern has now happened twice: commitments made, dates set, promises broken.

I told him clearly: you commit, or we’re done.

Most people don’t fail because they lack potential.

They fail because they live in excuses.

At some point, leadership requires truth, not comfort.

Boundaries aren’t punishment.

They’re standards.

And standards are what separate:

Growth from stagnation.

Power from weakness.

Integrity from self-betrayal.

Sometimes accountability sounds harsh to people who are committed to staying stuck.

That’s okay.

Here’s what that actually looks like in practice:

(Name), I’m sending this because I am done watching you stay stuck in a cycle that will destroy any chance of the life you want.

Looking at your behavior, it’s clear you’re operating out of avoidance and excuse patterns instead of ownership. Your constant justifications — whether it’s your dad or your “next job” — are reactions designed to delay responsibility.

This is cheating yourself and your word. You are choosing futility and chaos over growth and integrity.

You will never reach a stage where you are genuinely respected or trusted if you keep hiding behind these shields. Integrity isn’t a feeling — it’s an action. You said you’d pay this week and send your info. You haven’t.

As the Word says: “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.” — Proverbs 28:6

Send your name and email by 5:00 PM today so I can invoice you, or accept that we are finished. I am moving forward with people who live in purpose and truth. The choice is yours.

This is how you enforce standards.

This is how you end excuse cycles.

This is how you stop carrying grown adults.

No emotional chasing.

No rescuing.

No repeated reminders.

Just clear expectations, firm deadlines, and real consequences.

I don’t work with excuses.

I work with ownership, truth, and forward motion.

Integrity is not what you feel.

It’s what you do.

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