12. How you do one thing is how you do everything

Early in my career, I noticed a pattern...I’d build things up to a certain point, then I'd break them down to a certain point. For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction: A destructive action creates a destructive reaction, and a constructive action creates a constructive reaction. Pretty simple. The pattern of somebody's existence in one aspect of life, big or small, will be present in their existence in everything else. It doesn't matter how small something is, it will be present in the largest thing that person does. You can't have a breach in a tiny thing and not expect it to show up in something massive. It reflects everywhere. Realizing this makes you take everything a lot more seriously. If somebody isn't committed to their business and their success, that lack of commitment will show up everywhere in their life. The cool thing is that you're not stuck this way. I think this is the mistake a lot of people make. They think that once they identify the pattern and cause and effect, they think that that's who they are, and they're stuck like that forever. That's not true at all. 

We explain how to identify and change these patterns in this episode.