Fine Tuning

A voice. Guitar. Car engine. You name it -- everything in life requires fine tuning. Constant upkeep. Because complacency kills. Voices have an eerie tendency to go missing before a big show. Strings snap. Engines sputter out, leaving you stranded on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere past midnight.

Neglect never fares well.

So take the time to be meticulous. Take pride in your product. Your possessions. Yourself. Use your tools even when the mood doesn't strike you. They say a writer writes, so it must hold true that singers sing. Jugglers juggle. And so on and so forth. 

Professionals are constantly fine-tuning their trades to stay just that -- professional. Call the world cut-throat, call it competitive, the best stay on top for only as long as they're willing to work to stay there, willing to adapt, improve, re-string, rebuild. 

Darwinism back in action.