■ Karl Menninger’s definition of loyalty can be helpful here:

Loyalty doesn’t mean that I agree with everything you say, or that I believe you are always right, or that I follow your will in blind obedience. Loyalty means that we share the same values and principles, and when minor differences arise, we work together, shoulder to shoulder, confident in each other’s good faith, trust, constancy, and affection. Then together, we go forward, secure in the knowledge that few day-to-day matters are hills worth dying on.8 L. I do not promise what cannot be delivered, and I deliver on all promises made.

1. I have dropped the ball often.

2. I have failed occasionally.

3. Usually.

4. Almost without exception.

5. Always.

Rationale: