Everyday, countless of very worthwhile projects are shelved because of lack of resources. That’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy because lack of resources can always be compensated with resourcefulness. Lack of resources should never be an excuse to abandon a project.

Lack of resource is the mother of invention. Lack of resources stands behind almost every great breakthroughs. Lack of resources should not be viewed as a handicap but as an opportunity for creativity and growth.

My Dad was a simple man. He never had the chance to get a superior education but he left me with an incredible gift. He taught me about resourcefulness. He showed me that our greatest asset is not money in the bank, not influential friends, not prestige or power but resourcefulness.

We grew up in a family of very modest means but none of us ever lacked anything. The money may not have been there but resourcefulness certain was, so we always had everything that we ever needed.

Resourcefulness is nothing but imagination in action. You need a resource that you don’t have – what do you do? You brainstorm. You write down as many solutions as you can on how you could do without that particular resource and keep your project alive and progressing.

Most of the solutions that you will come up with will be worthless. However, out of that brainstorming a flame of hope will shine upon one of those solutions. You keep exploring that venue and sooner or later your problem will be solved. Resourcefulness will have compensated for the lack of resources.

There is always more than one way to skin a cat. If it cannot be done one way there are always another. We’ve all heard these words before but we seem to forget them when we most need them.

Money is not the most important resource. Resourcefulness is. That is because you can lose all your money, but unless you get sick, you will always have your resourcefulness.

At one point in my life, I was hosting a TV show on health. I wanted to interview the leading medical authorities in my hometown but I soon found out that medical specialists were not very found of being interviewed by a chiropractor, which is what I am. So, I had to get some leverage. What I did was to get in touch with the doctor who was number one on the totem pole of the medical community.

That guy was a cardiologist who rode a red Ferrari and had an ego that was bigger than a barn door. He was the head rooster in town. I knew that that a guy like that could not turn down a chance to appear on TV. So, I invited him on the show. Of course he agreed.

The word spread around that Dr. Bigshot had been on my show and after that, the telephone never stopped wringing. No other specialist wanted to feel that they could not do what this guy had done. Each and everyone of the specialists appeared on the show.

Resourcefulness had won over resources. It always does. A lesson that I never forgot and will always use.

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