🌵 TREE 481: Assume you can

My grandfather had an office job at a steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado. He also built his own house. He built the garage first. His family lived in the garage for two years while he built the rest of the house. He wasn’t a professional builder. He was just a person who assumed he could build a house and so he did. Around the house was a tiny farm with an orchard that he planted, an acre of sweetcorn and huge vegetable garden. Because he assumed he could.

My dad’s first car was a Chevrolet Corvair. As a teenager, he took out the engine and rebuilt it on the driveway of the house my grandfather built. Because he assumed he could.

American hospitals massively overcharge for all kinds of things. You don’t realise this if your insurance company pays. For a while, my mother had a sideline helping people who don’t have insurance get their hospital bills reduced or erased. She had no experience in this area. She just assumed she could take on the the medical industry and win, so she did.

The reality is that you don’t fully know what you are capable of. I suggest that if you want to do a thing, assume you can. You’ll probably be right.

Amanda-Joan went and got herself one of those fancy hoverponies. She’s not sure of the correct direction to face, but lordy does she feel posh!

Are you listening to Enny yet? It’s time to listen to Enny (Spotify).

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Grow slowly
Jeff