06/18/2026
“The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.”
I learned this phrase from the kids book ‘Way of the Warrior Kid’, written by Navy Seal - Jocko Willink, that I got for Ben when he was younger.
It teaches discipline, hard work & confidence.
I try to live by it as well. It’s good 🤷🏻♂️
I have a high standard for my crew.
We try to do the better thing even though it’s harder a lot of the time.
It’s in how we fold the blankets a certain way, roll the straps a certain way, triple check things, call out steps on paths for each other, count down lifts or put things back where they go.. all the same exact way, every single time.
The bar is set at excellence & we do our best to hit it.
If I was my client, I would expect nothing less.
Traveling this road means things may also take longer to achieve. Which isn’t always a bad thing.
If you can plan to allow yourself the time, the experience can turn out less stressful.
For example, if all the schedules align, I love splitting a move between days. We can place furniture & bring in the necessity boxes to be unpacked first, leaving the secondary stuff to come in the next day.
As opposed to filling a house all at once which at times, leaves little room to navigate the hardest work of finding homes for all the stuff while all the stuff is in the way.
In whatever you do, skip the shortcuts as much as possible.
Your work will reflect what you stand for.
Strive for excellence. Go slower if you can.
Give creativity & authenticity the room to breathe.
Stop forcing everything to happen in rushed timelines. If you find yourself with no time to put your head above water, i’d say you’ve taken on too much & need to scale back.
The way you do one thing is the way you do everything & like it or not, it absolutely will bleed over.
One day you’ll wake up & realize you’ve let busy-ness waste your life or you’ll end up with no real quality to what you do because it’s become production over everything.
Jake Andres
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