 Greetings, so I got a short story for you You know I like to cook every once in a while the only reason I don't necessarily like to cook is because then I got to clean up And I'm not anyone home right now my wife's out of town until pretty much the end of May And so if I cook I got a clean and if online doing is just making an egg You know so I can have an egg sandwich not a big deal you cook it you swipe it You know you swish it through the water with a little bit of soap and you're done But when you're really looking to cook a bigger meal, of course now you've got a whole lot of stuff that you're gonna mess up Anyway, one of the things I like to do is I like to make rice Then put it in the fridge for a long time let it get all cold and everything Then fry up some chicken and I don't mean like fried chicken for you better whatever because I don't know how to do any of Instead what I'm pretty much doing is I'm getting skinless chicken Mainly chicken thighs and I cook the chicken thighs in there and I cut it all up into you know These really small pieces and then I fry the rice. I throw in the chicken I throw in vegetables onions. I flavor it all up and I'm good to go It absolutely becomes a wonderful meal, and I love to do it, but it takes a long time so The other day I decided well, I'm gonna take a shortcut so I was at Wegmans That's our grocery store, and I decided to buy one of their pre-made rotisserie chickens And you know they're not bad if you're looking for kind of a quick decent meal You know it's rotisserie chicken. You know what you bring it home You put some sauce on it you eat it Maybe I'd buy like a frozen mashed potatoes heat that up and at least it's something it's quick It's already done, and you can eat it in this case I decided I was gonna use that Instead of having to cook the other chicken, and I was going to you know be fine I had cooked the rice the night before so it was nice and cold in the refrigerator You know so I could just take it out and fry it So you would think that this would be just an easier way to get the exact same meal that I was used to having It turns out that stuff doesn't quite work out that way One of the things about rotisserie chicken, of course They take a long time to cook it and it cooks its own juices, but everything gets really soft And you don't necessarily think about it when you're just eating just chicken and maybe some vegetables or maybe the mashed potatoes But when you're gonna use it for anything else, it's already cooked. It's really soft, and it's mushy So what happened is I started off by frying the rice and then I decided I'm gonna do my vegetables and put it in there Then I put it in the chicken. I put in my flavored sauce and It just didn't look right while I was cooking it But it smelled okay, so I said okay this ought to be good But when I went to go you know put some on my plate I said wow why is this all gummy and everything and It turns out it was gummy because the chicken like I said when I was pulling it apart Because you know I pulled it apart ahead of time and put it all in a big bowl So I could just put it in Well the chicken was mushy and once the chicken was mushy then it just made everything else mushy everything kind of stuck together it just didn't cook right and So it didn't mean I didn't eat it, you know, I still ate it, but I wasn't as enthused I still have some in the fridge because I have to now work my way through it wasn't one of the better batches of stuff that I've made a little bit disappointing and You know what I spend enough money on food that I end up not eating because it doesn't come out right or it turns out not to Be what I want for me to basically throw this away because it had a lot more ingredients It costs a little bit more money now I'm telling you this story Because in a way I tried to shortcut what I knew already worked for Expediency I'm thinking you know what this time I don't have to cook the chicken because it's full process I mean, you know you have to kind of rinse it off then you you know fry the chicken You flip it over a little bit fry it some more then you pull it out And now I've got to cut it all up because that's what I do I start cutting it all up before it's totally done Instead of just continually flipping it and I'm seasoning it the entire time and it you can't cook it on high So it takes maybe 15 minutes to cook the chicken separate So basically to save what I'm thinking 15 minutes. I gave up quality and That was just yucky. That's not anything we should do and You know, there's a big message here where you're talking about Quality and all these other kind of things where You know people take shortcuts to stuff all the time There are people for instance when you're talking about blogging or writing where they say well Just buy PLR rights and then change a few words and now you've got a post That's true, but there's no quality there There are people who pay other people to write full books for them on topics. They know nothing about so they can sell the book But they don't necessarily know what the quality of that book is because they haven't read it Sometimes they don't even read it. Sometimes they do read it, but because they don't know the topic They don't know if it's quality or not. They don't know if it's right or not. They just do it Earlier in the month I asked my friend Kelvin. I you know, I talk about him all the time So I said hey dude, tell you what how about you write a guest post for my blog and he said On what I said, whatever you want to write on whatever you think makes you look good Just write an epic post and he said what does epic mean? I said epic is whatever you think you can produce that you will be proud of proud enough So that you will promote it and share with people and say hey look what I did He said well, what if you don't like it? I said it has nothing to do with me. This is you Your own pride. How do you feel you put something together? I said, I'm going to post it However, you write it the only thing I'll change is is if there's some spelling mistakes I will fix that and I did something with spacing to make it easier to read On the blog but otherwise I left the whole thing and he did a good job Why because he didn't want to see be seen as someone who is just going to take the easy route out and And give me something that wasn't quality something that didn't represent what he hoped to represent for himself You know, you can take a lot of shortcuts to success or to doing things Instead of really putting in the work and you might get away with it, but what have you really learned? What have you really done, you know, and what if it turns out that it's bad? You know, if it's bad, then you only have yourself to to think or blame or whatever for it You know, if you have someone fix your car, do you want them just to get some duct tape? I know everyone's always says duct tape was really duct Do you see tea? Although I go with the gorilla stuff So because it works better and then I'll have to call it anything except go real a tape. Anyway, do you want that kind of Person fixing your car where all they're using is this tape stuff Or do you want a true mechanic who knows everything about the inside of your car is going to do quality work? You know, think about that. I remember a line from the movie Armageddon and a lot of people beat up on Armageddon But you know what? I love the movie Anyway, there was a line in the movie and I don't remember the exact words where the guy says think about this We're flying on this piece of technology that is going to take us in the space and put us on an asteroid And it was built by the lowest bidder You know think about that for a bit, you know If you're going to always go for the lowest price, then you got to get what you paid for Sometimes you got to pay better. Sometimes you got to do better so that you have quality And if your name is on it, you always want it to be quality. That's Mitchell's take on it Let me know your thoughts. Do you think that it's okay to skimp on quality just to produce things? Think about some of the foods you like to eat that you really like to eat and think about how you would feel Because I keep having to go through this when something that you loved that you love is all of a sudden lesser quality Because of something that the manufacturers did Just think about it. Y'all know who I am. You take care and have a wonderful day