“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
Often my instinct is to postpone a task or goal until I have everything I think I need to do it “right”: wait to grade papers until I have a two-hour block of time to devote to the task, postpone work on my book until I'll have more time during summer break, not donate to a worthy cause until I can give as much as I’d like to, not be a part of a social-justice pursuit until I have the time and wherewithal to play a larger role.
Yet little bits add up over time. When we start where we are, use what resources we have and do what we can, the microcosm begins to build. What we do in a day or week sets us up for what we can accomplish in a month or a year. Conditions may not be perfect, but they may well be all that is needed.
What have you been putting off until conditions are “right”? How can you start where you are with what you have to do what you can?
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