Working with the tools you have
There are times we won’t have the tools we need to finish a project. However, if we’re inventive with the things around us, we can.
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Summary
I got my old car started for the first time in about 10 years. I didn’t have all the tools or space I needed, but I used my brain and what was around me to make it work. You don’t need to buy every shiny new tool, just be inventive with what you already have. That’s what running a business is like too.
Raw
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I’m rebuilding one of my cars to go on a trip. But I’m rebuilding it because it’s been sitting in the garage for such a long time and it hasn’t been starting. There were parts that I needed. There were tools that I didn’t have. But one of the major issues was, I managed to do it today, but one of the issues was that it wasn’t actually starting.
The thing is, it’s in a garage in between two cars and there’s a post, as well, and doing anything on that car the fact that it doesn’t move has been insanely difficult but I managed it and the reason I managed it is because I use the environment around me to be able to do it I didn’t have all the tools that I should have had to be able to do it sometimes I had to leave it and go back to the other side of the Netherlands where my garage is to get specific but the tool that I needed was space and I didn’t have the space but I was inventive with the things around me to be able to do it.
So these people that go out and buy every tool under the Sun because they think they need it it’s not always necessary because you probably have the tool already and that tool is your brain using your knowledge in running a business and using your Mac and using the tools that you already have, you’ll probably find that they will do what you need it to do. So you don’t have to get that shiny new thing.
I managed by being inventive with the things around me and straps and oh, I wish I’d recorded it but I didn’t. But being inventive, being inventive is what you need, not yet another tool. Anyway, here is the car starting first time in, I think, about 10 years. Started first time. Have a look.
I’ll see you next time. I’m thinking, should I make this a vlog or should I make this separate? Anyway, I’m done for today. I’m off. I see you next time. Ciao.