Do With What You Have
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
We can dig our own ditch at times. Worrying about the skills and abilities we don’t have, meanwhile ignoring what we do. We each have a thing. Something given to us by DNA, or God, or whatever you believe. Maybe you just haven’t discovered it yet. Or, you’re self-destructing. Looking at the people you follow on social media wishing you had what they had. Jealous of their skills.
You have your own thing. Start there. The best way to start something new is to use what you have, do what you’re good at or interested in. You don’t need to buy new tools or equipment. Rent it or borrow. You don’t need a website or business cards yet, just get your first customer. You don’t need to go to the coffee shop and buy a $6 latter in order to write. You might want that, but just start writing.
Things are hard enough to start and do even when we don’t or can’t do it well. Don’t add what Steven Pressfield calls resistance. The task and work ahead of us does not need any more of that resistance. There is plenty, there will be plenty. So stop digging a deeper ditch. Start with what you have. Start where you are. Start small and simple. Give yourself more chances to succeed.
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Thought Provoking Questions : What are your best qualities? What would the people close to you say you’re good at? What do you enjoy doing? What are you interested in? What can you do and lose time doing it?
Daily I write and release a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in my life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
These writings are not to push a way of thinking on the reader or to force you into a certain philosophy or methodology. Rather to give you practical and real ways to handle life. This is an added tool. My writing is simply a discussion, a discourse, with all the material I read, watch, hear and consume.