Work on basics

Your shortcut to the extra"ordinary"

An idea comes to your mind. You think about it for a while, or perhaps a couple of days, weeks, and months.

You want to do something for it, but then, you share it with your friend, they call it basic, and thud! You drop it on the spot.

Just like that.

But again, another idea comes to your mind. You think, tell your friend… thud!

You drop it again.

Likewise, the ideas keep coming, you keep dropping, and the cycle continues.

But the urge to do something extraordinary never dies. It stays the same. It haunts the same. It depresses you the same. It obsesses you the same.

Yet, the extraordinary is nowhere to be found.

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Yes, sometimes you get some out-of-the-box ideas. Something that has never been created before. But again, for those brilliant ideas, you are not qualified.

Thud! You drop them again, and the search begins again.

It seems like a dead end. Or perhaps, a road with no end. But you have seen many ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

So, why can’t you?

Well, the simple answer is that you cannot. No one can. No one has, and no one will ever be.

Because the extraordinary work you see was once not even ordinary.

The people performing them were just normal people.

However, when the idea came to mind, they didn’t ponder it to make it an extraordinary thought. Instead, they started.

They didn’t wait to feel qualified. They didn’t wait for it to sound impressive. They didn’t wait for someone to approve it.

Because nothing is extraordinary, only you make it.

People you see doing phenomenal jobs are just like you; yet, they honed themselves in the craft so well that they have developed their own techniques, which seem extraordinary to people who haven’t.

What looks like brilliance is often just basics practiced for a very long time.

I like the interview of Steve Jobs in his NeXT office by John McLaughlin, where he said:

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

See, this is so powerful. Because it quietly removes the excuse we rely on the most.

If they can do it, you can, too.

There’s only one thing you need to do: just work on the basics, and you’ll find your extraordinary.

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