🪛 TREE 420: Start with the tools you have

Throwback Tuesday – TREE 74

One.

Start with the tools you have. Find the right tools as you go.

I started running in 2011 (I think). I wore a T-shirt, cut-off track suit bottoms and £10 trainers from ASDA. The trainers lasted long enough for me to be convinced I liked running. The cut-off shorts lasted a few years. But I only bought actual running shorts for the first time in autumn 2020. Running is definitely better in high-tech fabric. But how sad would it be if I believed I needed high-tech fabric to go for a run?

Whatever new thing you want to start. Just start. Use what you have, what you can borrow, what you can buy super cheap. Start right now. Today, while your motivation is high.

Two.

Today is the last day of my current job. My new job starts next week. It’s fully remote, so maybe this advice doesn’t apply to me?

Three.

It is important to listen to Graceland now and again.

Grow slowly
Jeff