Simple stupid

“Simple Stupid” . . . This is a great way to live life: as simply as possible. Life is complicated enough as it is; to further the infinite complexities you can deal with any given day is nothing short of stupid. As a standard, if everyone wants IRC2015 (a building code) in one area and IRC2012 in another, you’re going to make a mess of things. Don’t try to cut corners because you’ll only make it more difficult for yourself when it all comes out in the wash. If you’re scrimping just to make things go faster or easier, you’re making everything more complicated that it needs to be. If it only costs a little more to keep everything at IRC2015, you’ve made the lives of everyone involved in the project easier. Why, because consistency is an unspoken virtue. It’ll cost you hundreds of dollars to go back and fix it, if something isn’t correct.

When you complicate things, you waste the money of your staff and the people you have generating reports. With business efficiency, it is imperative for you to create a process or a system that rewards expectations and consistency in your work environment. Every snag or unnecessary complication muddies the waters and provides another opportunity for something to go wrong and cost you money. It confuses employees at every level of production. Better to make that extra expense to keep things simple, flush, and standard. Working to meet these simple goals saves more money than taking the “easy way out.” Especially when it comes to your quality work mitigating the need to go back and correct mistakes made in the service of expedience. Build a routine, build quality, and build the best business you can.