Start With What You Have
"First decide that it can be done and then your mind will start to work to figure out a way to make it happen." I can relate to that. I've seen it happen in my life several times. I don't always imbibe that idea but these days I've gotten more and more consistent to snapping into that mindset when things feel pointless or necessarily difficult. it usually summarises to some variation of "there has to be a way" "Max out the utility of everything that is within your reach." is something I also can relate to it in some way. For example, a device starts acting up. You use it to its limit before you get another one. That mindset really lets you be creative. (sometimes, you actually don't have a choice). But I want to start focusing more of the "max out" and "everything". There are other opportunities in my life to explore that idea and I guess in a way, it's connected to building capacity. I've been articulating "capacity" more as expanding to be able to do more but an underlying thought I've had underneath that, which also demands its own articulation, is knowing that you truly are hitting the limit of what you can handle at this time and then you expand. Sometimes, "building capacity" is not adding anything to your life but being more creative and optimised with how you do things. Maybe even subtracting.
