My 2025 Integrity Report

This is my second annual Integrity Report.

The purpose of this report is to self-evaluate the degree to which I am living in alignment with my core values, goals, and life vision. This self-evaluation contrasts with my Annual Reports, which focus on specific goals for the year.

There are three main questions that I answer in this Integrity Report. (You are welcome to replicate these questions for your own Integrity Report.)

1. What are three core values that drive my life and work?

2. How am I living and working with integrity at this moment?

3. What are three ways I can set a higher standard in the future?

Here we go…

1. What are three core values that drive my life and work?

Consistency

The core value of consistency has become increasingly prioritized as I have transitioned into new roles, including father, business owner, content creator, and more.

Instead of aiming for being "perfect" or "brilliant" in my work output, relationships, and habits, I strive for consistency. Consistency is essential for building relationships, establishing authority, and maintaining health, and also creates more enjoyable opportunities.

At work, this involves being present through social media, via my private community for Executive Function Coaches, and responding to my various channels (email, text, etc.).

One change that made me more consistent was hiring an Administrative Assistant, who acts as a second brain in helping me reach my goals and stay in alignment with my vision. Investing in this type of support has been akin to holding up a mirror to my life, creating a greater level of accountability to my larger vision.

On a personal level, consistency is being emotionally available to my family, day in and day out. I strive to improve my parenting skills by showing love and affection, holding clear expectations, and setting boundaries. Practicing consistency through small daily routines, such as brushing teeth, taking baths, and making dinner, are small things I feel proud of.

Faith

Developing the skill of becoming a person of faith and trust has been a core value that I have been working on for the past few years. This continues to reap rewards and bear fruits in many ways.

By coming to rely on a power greater than myself, as I conceive it, I don't feel the need to fix and control almost anything in my daily life. Instead, I focus on "channeling" the directions of my higher power and being of maximum service, each day. The spiritual community I am a part of further guides me, which is a community of men focused on self-reflection, taking ownership of our flaws, and practicing kindness.

This helps me maintain a more quality presence in all domains and reduces my emotional dysregulation by letting go of a need to control things out of my locus of control, like politics, the economy, etc.

Reflective

I've incorporated being reflective into my life by revisiting my goal-setting system, which helped me grow my business in the first place. Each Friday, I review my life vision, 90-day goals, and action steps, to stay in alignment on a weekly basis.

I've tweaked the system by creating a weekly scorecard, which I learned from reading "Buy Back Your Time" by Dan Martell. Each week, I also evaluate what I would like my ideal week to look like and then make minor tweaks to my week to move closer to that vision. Small tweaks, big peaks.

This process has also revealed a yearning in my heart to have more fun every week. I plan to incorporate this into my weekly schedule by building more friendships in my community.

2. How am I living and working with integrity at this moment?

Focusing on my "unfair advantage"

I am living and working with integrity by focusing on utilizing my background as a special educator to help transitioning special educators, continuing to grow my executive function coaching business, and also working with school districts to support their special education staff, enabling them to do better work for their students. Leveraging my unique background or "unfair advantage" is key to understanding the value I can bring to a variety of scenarios.

Simplifying life

Because of this focus on special educators and finding a niche, I've been able to create more free time to spend with my family, pursue my passion projects, and make time for friends. Zoning in on a niche and actively letting go of projects and things that are unrelated has been great for my mental health. I look forward to continuing to explore a minimalist lifestyle that focuses on greater impact.

Examining my character defects

Letting go of things outside my "zone of genius" has allowed me to spend more time looking at my character defects. I continue to pursue ways to grow spiritually through my commitment to sobriety, developing my communication skills, and a weekly health regimen of exercise and more plant-based dietary choices.

I'm also investing in communities that have helped shape my life, such as Justin Welsh's Substack community, where I'm learning more about becoming a facilitator and leading my community of executive function coaches.

3. What are three ways I can set a higher standard in the future?

Let go of things that are out of alignment

By getting comfortable with letting go of things that are out of alignment, I will continue to narrow my focus on the things that truly matter. This might look like hiring a content writer for my executive function coaching business for students. I love this quote on this topic:

If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important. If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important. Oftentimes, it’s just a matter of letting little bad things happen (return a phone call late and apologize, pay a small late fee, lose an unreasonable customer, etc.) to get the big important things done.

The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates—or doing more—it’s defining the few things that can fundamentally change your business and life.

Be my future self now

As a father of two young children, I'm also seeing how time really slips by and children get older quickly. What I want to do is focus on being my future self now, and I can do this by not saying "I'm going to do something in a few years" but starting to do things as soon as possible, without waiting for expectations to be perfect. I can do this by using my 90-day goal system to incorporate relationship and health goals around things like RV trips. I also need to be wary of thought patterns like, "oh, I need to hit a certain financial goal before I can allow myself to take this trip."

Have more fun

I want to consistently have more fun on a week-to-week basis, rather than making it a long-term vision to have fun only at the end of the month or when I see friends. This might look like doing weekly game time, going to more movies, or investing in more date nights.

I could also see this happening by building a stronger sense of community with other fun accountability partners, aka friends. This has been a challenge since I lost the ability to play pickleball and basketball, which were my sources of fun.

The Bottom Line

My hope for this report is that the process anchors me in core values and principles that will guide my actions, thinking, and decisions until I write my next Annual review at the end of 2025.

I encourage anyone to use this format and evaluate your level of integrity with your core values and life vision.

Thank you for being a reader -- I hope to serve your personal development needs for years to come.

-Sean McCormick, June 2025

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