So, you look up one day and you don't see the sun. The world is caving in around you and you just don't know what to do. To some degree, we've all found ourselves in a hole that seems too deep to escape. The next time this happens to you, or, if you are in a situation right now, this secret will show you the way to get back on track.

Luke 16:10
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."

Jesus revealed the secret to getting out of a jam over 2,000 years ago. He wasn't the first to show us this truth, but the way that he said it really puts a sharp point on it. If you notice above, it doesn't say that we should bite off more than we can chew. It doesn't say to hire a cement truck and fill in the hole that you've created. What it does say is that if we are trustworthy with very little, we can be trusted with much.

So, the secret to cleaning up the mess that you've made is to make a little change. When that change is successful, make another little change. Keep doing this process. Through the Law of Accumulation or the Law of the Slight Edge, or any other moniker you want to place on this principle, you will remove the monkey from your back. Most likely, unless you really concentrate, you won't even remember how bad it was.

To illustrate this secret in action, let's look at the miraculous results that Rudolph Guiliani achieved as Mayor of New York City in the 1990s. When he took office in 1994, the murder rate was astronomical as the crack epidemic hit the city hard. Guiliani adopted the "broken windows" policy. He ordered his police to enforce even the lowest level offenses including jaywalking, vagrancy and public intoxication.

This theory, first introduced in an Atlantic Monthly article in March of 1982 by conservative theorists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling states:
"if the first broken window in a building is not repaired, then people who like breaking windows will assume that no one cares about the building and more windows will be broken. Soon the building will have no windows...."

In another words, if you're not trustworthy in the little, who will trust you with much. Since adopting this policy, "Violent crime in New York city has dropped 75% in the last twelve years and the murder rate in 2005 was at its lowest level since 1963." (Langan, Patrick A. - October 21, 2004. "The Remarkable Drop In Crime In New York City)

If you want to make a course correction, make a little change in the right direction and keep at it until you are once again able to handle much.