Ev BogueI'm reading R.B.'s Business Stripped Bare, a book full of stories of heroic exploits and all sorts of amazing things. Naked women, hanging from helicopters, and recording famous artists. You name it, it's in here.
However, in the midst of all of these stunts, I've found one page that I believe contains the secret of R.B.'s success.
I share this because it landed with me.
R.B.: "I carry a notebook everywhere I go. Every blue moon I wax philosophical. But most of my entries are like this one, and these are the sort of dull dreary, absolutely essential entries that everyone should be capable of writing, but so few do: 'Dirty carpets. Fluff. Areas around bow dirty. Equipment: stainless steel, grotty. Choice of menu disappointing--back from miami, prawns then lobster (as a main course) in Upper Class. Chicken curry very bland. Chicken should be cut in chunks. Rice pretty dry. No Stilton available on cheeseboard.'"
This landed for me, because it's true. Sometimes the most mundane things are what we need to note and take care of. Over and over and over again.
Yes, doing this kind of work is really tiring. Yes, it isn't glamourous. However, doing this boring work day after day is the work that needs to happen.