I started this blog a pretty long time ago, but I’m not an expert at anything to do with gardening or homesteading. In fact, my homestead is pretty half assed at this point. My chicken coop is too dirty, weeds overtake everything every year, I let produce go bad before using it. My plants get stunted and I give up for “better luck next year”.
I’m the type of person that will say I can’t start a work-out routine until Monday. And then not start on Monday. I worry so much about everything being perfect before starting. If I can’t do it all, it doesn’t make sense to try anything. I worry that if I can’t write something other people will want to read, or be as funny as I wish I were, then I shouldn’t bother at all.
But that’s all kind of silly when you think about it.
Incremental progress is progress. Doing a little bit every day is the way to get things done. So today I’m going to grind some wheat berries into flour. I’m going to make a pot of soup. I’m going to fertilize my peppers. I can weed whack tomorrow. Clean the chicken coop out tomorrow.
I’m working really hard on the “if I can’t do it all today, it’s not worth doing” and “it’s better to wait until tomorrow/next Monday/next garden season” part of my personality. I think if I can get better at that, I will have a much better shot of getting the homestead into something I can be proud of.
I don’t want to be a half assed homesteader anymore. I’m going to give it a go just chipping away at things slowly. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.