Project ideas

I've had ideas about starting some personal projects for sometime now. Whenever I think I'm ready to get started I hold myself, usually for no apparent reason, come to think about it. My Achilles heel  is that I feel everything  should be perfect from the onset... the right tools, right amount of money, best possible item to add to the mix, name it! I keep wondering how others started projects and gotten where they are. Could there be a magic formula?

Lately, I've started 'shaking' myself out of it. And, it seems to be working! Just need to do it more I suppose.

I've come across some inexpensive, yet practical ideas recently (actually I've been seeing them at a construction site next door, but I hadn't given them much thought!) that have awoken the creative 'little guy' in me. I think I'm ready to take on some enterprises by the 'horn' in ways that are creative, practical and inexpensive. Which means...starting small and improvising when necessary.

Inexpensive: A rain gauge complete with its casing, mounted on  a pole. It is raised high up to prevent ground splatter from getting into the rainfall measuring cylinder. 

Creative: A water tank sits atop rings of blocks. This would be a perfect setup for a beginning farm enterprise, wouldn't it? Of course barbed wire fencing would keep animals from knocking it over, if they are part of the farm.

Practical: Locally made beehives hang in a mango tree (can you spot the second one?). The hives are made of discarded wood from a construction site. With 5-10 of those one could start a honey processing enterprise, and later upgrade to modern hives with the proceeds obtained.