Little trick to become better? (or do you not dare to?)

One thought for the mind. See for yourself what you do with it.

What is the risk of having it all? And what if you can get all that you want? You probably thinking the same as I do: you get lazy. And when you do, you don't have to think more than you need. And do you get any better then? Nope. Not much.

Reunion

Last weekend I had a family reunion. There were a lot of kids. To contribute to the entertainment my wife made a goblins hat for every child and we went through the forests to find the route of the goblin to end up at a table of goblin cookies. At the table I was sitting to sing some songs with the kids. The kids seem to love it, so what do you want more? 

We also thought of making soap bubbles. And not just soap bubbles, but really big ones. You need 2 sticks for it and a rope through ringlets. To screw the ringlets into the sticks I took a pair of tongs. Nothing special about that you think.

But that was until my oldest son came around and of course he could join me build one of these bubble sticks. I gave him my tongs, the sun was shining and I had no intention to go to the shack to get me an other pair of tongs. So I tried it with my bare hands, but it was quite a bit painful. I didn't realize at that point I was ending up pretty primitive by the lack of tools. So what I did is look around if anything within reach could help me get that ringlet onto my stick. Especially within reach! Because again, I didn't had any intention to go anywhere but my garden seat and get out of the beautiful sun and ruin this lazy morning I had. If I must, I just finished the things by hands while torturing myself. 

Then I saw a little crack in my garden furniture I was sitting on. That gave me the idea to screw the ringlet just a little bit into my stick and then place it into the crack and screw the wooden stick on to the ringlet, instead of screwing the ringlet onto the stick as I did before.

Conslusion

The screwing of the stick onto the ringlet turned out to be much easier and faster while my son was still struggling with the tongs. And with this stupid example, I realized that when you miss something, for example: tools, you are effectively finding a solution for something you didn't realize you need any solution for! So there may be tools, that you think you need, or got familiar with, which turn out to be not the most effective tools to create the things you want. So maybe you need to let go of a tool once in a while and find out for yourself. Do you know already which tool you're gonna ditch? Do you dare to loose some tools?