Have you ever seen a problem around your house that you thought you could fix? Maybe you went to move furniture and noticed that there were scratches in the hardwood floor. Perhaps with the purchase of a new washer and removing the old hose, the cold water valve was then slowly dripping. Sometimes when the light catches a mark on the wall, it looks like a scratch instead of a little dirt (or both) and you consider a little touch up.
Start to repair a scratch and if you select the wrong stain, you find yourself refinishing a whole floor and that requires large sanding equipment with room isolation precautions for dust, etc. It’s a mole hill that turns into a mountain - and is directly related to your actions. If you had gone to the store and bought the small furniture pad when you placed that couch, the scratch wouldn’t have happened.
A small deviation from the norm can be a large distraction. A slow drip turns into a slow steady stream, giving way to a flowing river yielding enough pressure to cause a disaster.
But do you know how you can fix it? When you have the right tools for any job, it makes the work much easier. A small cost outlay for the right part instead of “satisficing” and making due with a nearly-right part saves headaches and more money later. If you had gone to the store and bought the appropriate cleaner rather than trying to touch-up with the original paint (which no longer matches due to aging and now you have a polka-dotted wall), you’d save lots of money on the repainting of the entire wall.
As it works with money, the same principle also applies for your time. If you spend the time up front and invest in the right things, your life will go smoother. Anything worth doing is worth doing well; stop trying to get away with half-efforts and do the right thing with the right tools at the right time.
Right tools, right place, right time. Solving problems from the American colonist's days. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/north-carolina-lost-county-lines/409090/
