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Michael Lee ๐Ÿ•

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Just use what you've got

Bowl of soup with a hand holding a kid's spoon

This afternoon when I prepared myself a bowl of my wifeโ€™s awesome, seafood soup, I opened our silverware drawer and didnโ€™t see any spoons.

Without really thinking I grabbed one of my kidsโ€™ spoons, sat down to eat and took the photo above. Why? Because it reminded me that often, people donโ€™t care about how you made something, they only care about what you made. Just like my stomach doesnโ€™t care how the soup would get in there, it just cares that the food gets there.

๐Ÿ™‹ Iโ€™m definitely guilty of doing this many times in the past. I get a cool idea, decide to make it, then get caught up on what tools I should use to make it. This often leads to too much time spent on research which then leads to a loss of motivation. Instead, I should just take a moment to assess what Iโ€™ve already got and just get going. After all, the process of actually making and putting the end result out into the world is more rewarding then researching and acquiring the โ€œright tools.

My brain thought it was a silly idea that I used my kidsโ€™ spoon but my stomach could care less. Itโ€™s full and it is happy.


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