Get Your Basics Right
This is a story I’ve been planning to write for a while, but hell, who doesn’t procrastinate?
It all started with the brilliant idea, that this year I’ll make really nice, naturally coloured eggs for Easter. Red and yellow.
Two pots ready, filled with water, eggs in. In one I added dried onion peel for red colour, in the other I poured in turmeric for yellow.
Soon after they started to simmer, I saw the onion peels doing the magic. Eggs gaining a reddish tint.
But no change in the other pot. Where was the amazing, bright yellow colour I was dreaming of?
Maybe not enough turmeric? I poured in some more.. And then a little more. And more. Still no yellow eggs.
Having no idea what’s wrong, I checked with my friend “Google” again.
I mean it’s a simple process, what could go wrong?
Did I forget some crucial ingredient, like vinegar or something? But no, I did everything as described.
Then I turned to YouTube. Watched a video. Simple.
At around the 5th video I watched, finally saw it!
In the video, the eggs were white.
Mine were brown.
HEUREKA!
Brown eggs will never turn bright yellow, doesn’t matter how much turmeric I add.
I wasted a large pack of invaluable turmeric for nothing!
I was so angry. How come, that none of the instructions said one should get white eggs?
That’s when the basics are different. I learned from my mum and grandmother, to always buy brown eggs. I don’t even know why. But I do it, too.
I don’t even consider the white ones. Automatic, basic process.
Yet not for colouring eggs!
Get your basics right.
A tiny detail, that I just did out of habit, ruined my entire process.
If we don't get the basics right, it doesn't matter, how much effort we put in. We just waste valuable resource, time, and still don’t get the result we want.
I see this often with my clients, too.
They pour a lot of effort into their job-search, while the basics are not right.
They get tired, frustrated, unhappy. They feel unsuccessful with their confidence shattered. While they do everything right, except the basics are not.
Get your basics right.
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