Imagine you had 48 hours in every day, your bank account refilled to 1,000,000,000 every morning, you never needed to sleep, you were the smartest person in the world, and you had the charm and charisma to persuade anyone of almost anything.
Super cool right? Your horizons would be limitless. However, there is a problem here. Your options, being unlimited would make doing anything a challenge. How could you ever decide? How could you ever focus on any one thing long enough to make progress? Once you did you would have ample opportunity to second guess your decisions.
That being said I would love the chance to deal with that terrible problem. However, that's not where I am. I have constraints. I don't have extra time, energy, money, intelligence, or charm. I just have me.
So if I want to make a difference, be successful, or even accomplish what I want, I have to work with what I have. I have to work inside my constraints. This is helpful though. It forces me to appreciate the assets I do have and get creative with how I use them. Creativity whithers when there are no bounds. Brute force is too appealing. When there are tight spaces it forces the elegant and truly beautiful solution. There simply is no other way.
So next time you wish you "just had more time" or "just had more money" think about what you can do with what's already available. Beauty will come of it.
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