About

About the site

Take whatever you have right now and make the most of it.  You don’t need more of something.  Money, materials, time, talent.  You need to take whatever you do have and use it to the best of your ability.  It’s going to require creativity.  You have to be resourceful.  You might have to look at things differently.  You might need to find different uses for what you have.

That’s what I do.  I take whatever’s given to me and make something with it.  I do as much as I can with whatever I have.  Whether it be an idea, lumber, plants, rock, metal, experience, work, or any other medium.

This site will talk about all sorts of ideas of doing the most you can with very little.  Among them:

Sustainability
Investing
Art
Energy
Health
Fatherhood
Faith
Work
Charity
Personal Development
Story
Relationships
Technology
And anything else that comes to mind

That might seem like a lot of different subjects, but the main focus remains the same.  To do what you can with what you’ve got.  Resourcefulness.  Ingenuity.  

This leads to more than just making it through life.  More than just existing.  More than just biding time.  Life is more important than that.  But if you can take what you’ve got and make the most of it, you’ll realize that you already have more than you could ever imagine.

And maybe if I can help show the world how much we can do with very little, maybe I will have done my part.

About Me

For most of my life, people told me to doing things like everyone else.  I wasn’t going to succeed unless I performed tasks just like everyone around me.  I hated that.  Instead, I’d rather do my own thing, find my own way to succeed.  And, despite the “wisdom” of those people, I managed to succeed when I did things my way.

I learned you have to listen to yourself.  You have to do those things that are true to you and basically ignore those around you if they have nothing helpful to add.  Besides, they don’t know you like you do.

This led me to want to do my own thing in my own way.  I like novelty, newness, seemingly backward ways of doing things (assuming they actually work), going against convention, never conforming.

I’ve never understood why people just accept the status quo and monotony in life.  Why not challenge the way things are?  If something isn’t working the way it should, why do we continue to let it stay that way?  Why not change it?

Almost everything can benefit from doing it a little differently.  Almost everything needs a new approach to get it moving again.  It’s not that everything is broken, it just needs a little nudge to keep it going now and then.

And so, 7 years after graduating college with a B.S. in Ag., I’m finally starting to do the thing I was meant to do.  I’ve spent those years trying to figure out who the heck I am and wading through all the crap others have tried to heap on me about who I am and what I should do with my life.  I’ve finally figured a part of it out and am starting down my own path in life.  Which, I think, is what we’re all supposed to do.

Anyway, what do I do?  For the most part, I make the most out of whatever resources I have available.  Whatever I have available, that’s what I work with and get the most out of.  I’ll be giving examples of that on the site and writing about related ideas.

I love using my own ingenuity, resourcefulness to work with what I have, making it up as I go along.

Resourcefulness.  Ingenuity.  Improvisation.

To sum it up I would quote Superchic[k] by saying, “Rock what you got.”  That’s it.

Rock what you got.