The tools don’t matter. Start creating.
I spent almost a decade waiting to get everything perfect before I started putting stuff out. I had thought of creating videos, but I never seemed to have the right camera, the right lenses, the right lights. When I was producing music, I never seemed to have the right DAW, the right midi-keyboard, the right sound mixers. I put out a grand total of six music pieces in my entire life; a professional musician would have put that much out in a week or a day. So much potential wasted, hiding behind externalities that are poor excuses.
Compare that to my podcast that I started with nothing but my laptop and a Zoom account. I have shipped 24 episodes so far, learnt so much, touched so many lives, made so many new friends. All that momentum just because I shipped. And kept shipping.
Ship with what you have. Shoot with your mobile phone, create with your current equipment, write with your current knowledge. Create that project plan or write that report and get it to completion. Shipping out work is not just an outcome, it is part of the process of getting better. Shipping with what you have will make the core of the craft so much better, especially the part of the craft that is most critical; it will force you to get better at writing, ideating, executing quickly.
👉 Decide the areas / roles in your life where you are a professional vs an amateur. And in the areas where you are choosing to be a professional, ship without excuses.