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We are only resourceful after finding out how to be, and mostly, when we happen to be unresourced. A zeal to achieve drives us further into being resourceful. Resourcefulness is the art of avoiding the defeat of dreams by scarcity. It is also one of putting your advantages into use.

So, when unresourced people are trying to separate what works from what doesn’t they look up to people who are resourced. What they get is a list of what doesn’t work as per the resourced person. The list scares them. Yet the list has nothing to do with the situation the unresourced is facing. The unresourced can only achieve goals not through what the resourced consider as resources but through being resourceful. (And before we go any further consider reading an article on why parallelism).

The biggest resource the unresourced has is likely time itself. A person earning an average of three dollars a day, for example, can walk six kilometres after ‘work’ to home, but one with a higher income cannot. Accomplishments claim much of the unresourced person’s time because he has nothing to lose. That time is a resource in itself. The resourced and the already rich lack that resource.

To be resourceful you have to benefit from this perceived availability of time. This is a good example: In 2022, I returned to the College to finish my degree programme. My struggling parents and my uncle were funding this project. I had $10 a week for my commuting and nothing more; barely enough for a five-day academic week. Early in the morning I boarded a cheaper train to the town and proceeded from the town to the campus on foot using less than a dollar a trip instead of the $3 I required. I occasionally slept on the campus feeding on a 50cents loaf. On my way back I would wait for the same train in the evening (and sometimes try older tickets).  I was having from $5-7 a week in surplases to buy tools like powerbanks, vital in my blogging journey. (Although my blogging story is not yet a success at the point of writing, I am guessing you are getting the picture).

Imagine you are an aspiring blogger like me in 2022 and you are in a situation like mine. To benefit more out of countless minutes of travel you need to develop a person that absorbs loose ideas showing up while you are walking your long way to freedom. (I had notebooks for this, digital or otherwise). Some big companies and the vision they were founded on were a product of homelessness and sorrow.

Being resourceful is a matter of how you manage coming up with something you do not have the proper tools to perform. (Imagination is the major pillar of resourcefulness). When you are blind you will rely heavily on your remaining senses to capture what to imagine, feel and think about. You are intelligent and increasingly so when you start being resourceful. There are inabilities and disadvantages you will not have powers to melt in this life, not at your very starting line. So you will have to discover to rediscover, imagine to reimagine. To get a bite and taste where others see.

Being resourceful is not about getting your tools to last ages or keeping outdated devices for years, no! Being resourceful is a matter of finding the means to generate more of it. It is about finding clues where should be stuck forever and never to make it. As for me one of the reasons why I failed to come up with an earning blog in seven years is my belief that a laptop is a blogging tool. So, ignored a cheaper, readily available and easier-to-charge smartphone. My situation was not powercuts but no power at all. A smartphone on the other hand runs on mobile data better than a laptop, and I was not going to have a WIFI subscription earning $539 in 2022 and less in previous years.

When there are no ways resourcefulness is a matter of finding all ways and sticking to one. Resourcefulness is a matter of unlocking the full potential of what cannot qualify. One of winning a bidding race with coins while others throw huge dollar bills.

You need freedom for this ‘resourcefulness to work’. It is the freedom to wake up commanding your limited resources in any way and style that appeals to you. You can’t take 10 per cent of your limited earnings and plunge them into drinks because you have the house owner to please. Your grand takeoff scheme must be based on intentional decisions by you, for you and through you.  It is, therefore, important to develop an effective decision system that says no or yes at once and never reverses what’s decided. But, mostly, you need to depend less on some people’s kindness.

You are resourceful because you have discovered the “can’t-be-ness” of what you have. You have the resources but they do not qualify to have you achieve the goal at stake. They do not qualify except you believe that they do. Consider:

• Outlining a long-term vision, which somehow starts with lesser goals and objectives that can capitalise on the bigger goals once they are a success. Let’s say starting a fish-farming project takes thousands, and blogging takes less than that. Starting with blogging can get you to fish-farming. Now blogging should be something you are so passionate about. If blogging is way expensive you start with something else different, including those things that are reasons for them to laugh at you.
• Being hopeful and faithful. Hope and faith are a part of eyes blind to any current unpleasing situation.
• Being committed. Believe that you are to see your day one day. Commitment is an offspring of belief.
• Being ultra-focused. To do this you need to get rid of the things that halve your ability to stay focused no matter how important they are.
• Having a detailed means of looking through your failures. Feel your readiness improving each time you fail. Lastly, tolerate failure.
• Life is a one-time event. Live it finally. Do not waste your life on nothing. Be relentless and patient.
• Most visions die closer to their breakthroughs. Do not give up! Who knows you are not far away from striking gold.

The featured image: No one can save you…

No one can save you but yourself… This statement can be found in the last verse of a Charles Bukowski poem. It reads:

Nobody can serve you but yourself and you are worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

Henry Charles Bukowski

If you happen to be one of those unresourced triers out there please do not get any advice on what works and what cannot from a resourced person. Sometimes what may seem to be the best advice given can be a toxin to end you. Be resourceful, master your game and win your way upwards. Don’t let anyone define the discourse of saving yourself. Once you fear criticism you lose the power to make sound decisions.