Transcript:

Hey, welcome back to The Smashing system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about resources. It’s a question I hear a lot people ask me, How do I get started if I don’t have the resources? And I answer that with a question. What if the founders of Apple thought that while they were working in their parents garage would they have ever started if they thought about the resources they didn’t have? Don’t look at where your idols are. Now, don’t look at where your heroes are now, not where the people that you want to emulate are today. You want to look at where they started, find out where they started and start there. Everything doesn’t have to be perfect to start, you just have to start. Create a vision of what problem you’re going to solve and who you’re going to serve. And then figure out the first step that you need to accomplish that and start doing it. You can’t wait until you have it all figured out. You can’t wait until you have everything in place. If you wait until then you’ll never start. It’s all about starting now. It’s not about the resources you have. It’s about being resourceful. Don’t focus on what you don’t have. Focus on what you do have focused on what you can do with what you have. If you don’t have money, but you have time, use that time. If you have money, but you don’t have time, then use that money. get high quality equipment, get people to do the work for you. Just get started. If you feel like what you’re doing isn’t going to be good enough. Ask yourself is perfection. Just fear to telling you that you’re not good enough. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. People may say yes, they may say no. But don’t be afraid of it. If they think you’re being needy or self serving, because you ask them to help you. Well, that’s their problem. That’s their thoughts. One you can’t read their thoughts to, you can’t own their thoughts. The only thoughts that you can own are your own. Only you have control, or you only have control of what you think. You can’t control what other people think. So stop taking possession of that you’re only disempowering yourself. I want you to know, you can do this. You can take the first steps. Figure out the first step and then take it. Keep moving forward. Figure out the next step. Take it be come across a challenge. Something that’s difficult. Don’t think of it as a challenge. Don’t think of it as a hurdle. Think of it as a puzzle. Try to figure out a way to solve it. Put it to yourself as a question. How can I do this? You’ll be amazed at how resourceful your brain is. When it stops looking at things as problems and starts looking at them as puzzles. Your brain loves questions. So give it questions to answer. Well, that’s about it for me. So I hope you can put this to use and I will talk to you tomorrow.