Yesterday, while talking to a friend, I was speaking about doing the basics and the fundamentals right. For an example, if the root of the tree is strong, the tree will be strong and not the other way round. But when we struggle there might be certain very basic things that we might not be doing right? Maybe it's not eating on time, not sleeping on time, not working out on time or maybe not working out at all. At a higher level, we have 3 major areas. Our health, our work and our relationships. And every area has its own basic requirement, for an example our body needs certain amount of protein and carbs. For our work, we at least need to be productive for 3-4 hours in a day and for our relationships, we need to make sure that the people know that we care about them and so on and so forth. Being inclusive is something equally important. In a gist, if good health is the fruit of a tree, then the root is eating and exercising right. If good work is the fruit, then being focused, having a good understanding and good skills is the root. If good relationship is the fruit, then listening, being understanding and also taking things lightly is the root.

Like another design, life is also a design. As the above quote says, if you do the basic wrong, nothing else can be right. That's such an interesting way to look at it. For an example, if you want to learn English, you want to start with abcd, you can't learn rat, cat and dog if you don't know abcd. So that's about getting your fundamentals right and the rest will follow. So design the life around the basics, if you want to learn a new skill, work on the basics, all the other things will follow. Whether that's driving, cooking different types of food, or even learning a new language, you need to learn the basics and then dive deeper and deeper into the language.
So the next question is how do you know what are the basics of a certain thing? Let's say you want to learn a new language. Start with the topmost level, you want to be able to read, write and speak the language. Let's start with speaking the language. For speaking the language, what do you need to know? You want to speak sentences. Now how are sentences formed? They are nothing but a series of words in the correct grammar. So grammar and words are essential. Now how is grammar formed? Grammar is just a set of rules. Now how are words formed, they are nothing but real life objects that are called a certain thing. So you know the real world objects, now all you need to focus on is the words and the correct grammar on how to use those words. Once you learn words, you would be able to form sentences. Then you will be able to think about the sentences and then you would be able to speak those sentences. As simple as that. But if you don't know the words, you would never be able to speak that language. So it's all about the basic fundamentals.

Every expert in the world started with the basics. Whether that's an f1 racer, or whether that's Usain Bolt, the fastest runner in the world, all of them do the basics right and then keep practicing to get a feedback on what's going wrong.
Anyways I am going too much in detail here, but my message for today is simple, doing the basics right will bring a lot of ease in life.
Exercise: Take anything in your life that you wish to improve, whether that's your health, your work ethic, or whether that's your relationship. Write down a higher level goal, and keep drilling down on the basics, that's where you will find real treasure about what exactly it is that you need to focus on.
Enjoy and have a great day !
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