Thursday, June 23, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world never shows you what it\u2019s like to be in the kitchen 4a.m., taking care of all the initial steps of your Thanksgiving feast. You won\u2019t win a blue-ribbon for putting on your apron. No-one will clap for you when you start chopping veggies, putting the spice-rub on the pork roast, or starting the water to boil. Those initial steps are all done under the cover of darkness, in the lonely, wee hours of the morning. But if you want to produce quality, it has to start from somewhere, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve often heard that it\u2019s lonely at the top. Maybe so, but it\u2019s really<\/em> lonely at the beginning. Anything of quality has a step one, and we forget the profound importance of that truth. Your first piano lesson, that\u2019s toddler-level stuff. Your first steps as a business owner, filing the paperwork on your LLC, that\u2019s menial. Yet it\u2019s simple, the first steps are never much to speak of, are they? So we never see or hear about them, yet they keep so many people from accomplishing anything. The dullness of the beginning, the isolation and fear of even getting started – dream killers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From scratch, that\u2019s where the best begins. So what are you going to do? Envy those who have their mouth-watering meals ready to present to the masses? Or will you stumble into the kitchen, and put on your apron? I know it\u2019s easy to believe that heroes just seem to appear. But you know better, behind every success story lies a lowly, child-like, and lackluster simplicity of step one. The beginning is that lonely place that no-one notices, or seems to even care about. But don\u2019t be fooled, just put on your apron. There\u2019s never a shortcut anyway, so you just as soon start from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, June 23, 2022 The world never shows you what it\u2019s like to be in the kitchen 4a.m., taking care of all the initial steps of your Thanksgiving feast. You won\u2019t win a blue-ribbon for putting on your apron. No-one will clap for you when you start chopping veggies, putting the spice-rub on the pork […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation","tag-the-only-place-to-start-is-from-scratch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t