Karma Is a B*tch: The Devil in the Mirror

If your business hasn’t gone the way you wanted, there are a lot of surface-level things you can look at.

Your prospecting numbers. Your sales process. Your fee agreements. Your candidate pipeline.

But there’s something most people never look at: the devil in the mirror.

Three Fingers Pointing Back

When you point your finger at someone else, three fingers are pointing back at you. It’s an old line, but it’s one that’s always stuck with me.

Here’s what it looks like in practice:

If you judge and criticize others, you’re going to be terrified of criticism yourself. You won’t put out content. You won’t take risks. You won’t build a brand because someone might say something negative about it.

If you ghost your candidates and clients, your prospects will ghost you on proposals. Not sometimes. Consistently.

If you don’t invest in yourself, others won’t invest in you.

If you’re an a-hole to your vendors, your clients will be a-holes to you.

How You Show Up in Life Is How You Show Up in Business

Messy house. Messy mind. Messy business.

You’re late to one thing, you’re late to everything. You don’t pay your vendors on time, don’t be surprised when clients pay you late.

How you show up to the gym is how you show up to work.

This isn’t mysticism. It’s pattern recognition. The habits and standards that govern your personal life bleed directly into your professional behavior. And people can see them, even when you think you’re hiding them well.

I’ve trained hundreds of recruiters. Within the first few conversations, most of them have shown me their cards. The way they treat me, the way they talk about their candidates and clients — it tells me almost everything I need to know about where their business is headed.

The Action Item

Take a hard look at your life. Not your business. Your life.

Where are things out of order? Your relationships? Your finances? Your health? Your house?

Make a list. Then ask: how can I be the change I want to see in my own life?

Because here’s the thing — you cannot fix anything out there until you fix something in here. You can’t help others until you help yourself.

Karma isn’t a spiritual concept. It’s cause and effect. What you put out comes back. How you show up to the small things determines how you show up when the big things matter.

Every day is a command performance. Every single day counts.

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Note: This video was originally produced for Thrive Daily, a platform DSP no longer operates. The content still applies.