"Do what you can with what you have where you are"-- planning your personal resistance for
Over the next few days, I will be sharing questions and activities that have been helpful for me in planning my resistance and my self-care. Today, will include a quote and some brainstorming questions. I recommend writing your answers down on a sheet of paper. This is an excerpt of a packet I will be posting as a PDF later this week. I decided to break it into shorter chunks for the blog posts, that way people can do a little at a time and not find it overwhelming. The whole process is about figuring out what is the healthiest way for you to resist and making a plan. In the coming days, we will build off of this section.
Brainstorming to RESIST
“Do what you can with what you have where you are.” –Teddy Roosevelt
Consider the above quote while using the following questions to brainstorm. Don’t worry about having an answer or a plan just yet-- first we are discovering what is in our arsenal.
What can I do? (What are my strengths?, What do I enjoy?, What am I passionate about?)
What do I have? (How much time, flexibility, and resources do I have to work with?, What constraints do I have on each of these?-- for example, I have to focus my limited financial assets on repaying student loans, so I cannot donate lots of money to organizations I agree with. Other people may have less time flexibility than I do because, say, they have children)
Where am I? (What is my geographic location? What is my institutional and social context? (school, work, church, social groups, clubs, and so on), what are the needs of my community?)