If you’re familiar with the world of startups and entrepreneurship, then you most likely have come across the word “bootstrapping.”
Bootstrapping is a way to build a business with minimal financial resources, without investing too much, and then growing it organically.
Bootstrapping is also a metaphor for a process that is supposed to proceed without much external input; i.e., a self-directed endeavor.
Bootstrapping is done by efficiently using what you have . . . by extracting the maximum value out of what might be minimal resources.
Bootstrapping uses the principles of LEAN management. In simple words, creating something of value with zero wastage.
It is not necessarily a slow process, but rather a process that moves at its own organic or intrinsic speed.
Bootstrapping is most commonly used in connection with work. How about applying a similar concept to life itself?
The question is: Can happiness be bootstrapped?
I don’t know. Try it for a month.
Go search the web, and learn about bootstrapping and LEAN management principles. Use the two theories, and creatively apply them to your life to find bootstrapped happiness.
It’s an experiment worth doing. Let me know what you have learned.