What’s Your M.O.?

Yesterday, I published my weekly newsletter, LAUNCH (Leadership that’s Authentic, Uninhibited, Naturally Confident and Happy).  This week’s feature article was titled “How Do You Do Things?”, and the central focus was on a quote that has been sitting uppermost in my mind for the past week or so.  The quote, by T. Harv Eker, is one that my own coach uses frequently, and it has me thinking about my own patterns and practices; it does like this:  “The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”  For some reason, the very thought that I might have patterns that are that pervasive is astounding, curious and slightly troublesome.

You see, T. Harv Eker is basically speaking to the idea that what you do in one area of life is likely replicated in other areas.  So, think for a moment about how you operate in your life.  Do you find yourself picking up the slack at work?  If so, how do you pick up the slack elsewhere in your life, in what other relationships?  Do you leave your house as late as possible to make an appointment, leaving just enough travel time?  If so, when and where else in your life’s circumstances do you procrastinate?  Are you someone who holds a myriad of ideas in your brain while dealing with a single task such as meal preparation?  If so, when else do you multitask?  In short, what’s your general m.o.?

Although I wrote about this topic in yesterday’s ezine, the basic premise has caught my attention, and so I want to continue my thoughts on the topic here.  My sense is that, as leaders, it can be an extremely valuable exercise to give some thought to your m.o. — your “modus operandi”, the way you operate in the world.  If “the way you do anything is the way you do everything”, then my sense is that you need to know the way you do things, so that you can be conscious enough to change what doesn’t serve your life as a whole.  Definitely something to think about it.

How do you do things?  It’s a question worth holding.

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