Booker T. Washington, in his book Up From Slavery, tells this story.  A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, “Water, water; we die of thirst!” The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A second time the signal, “Water, water; send us water!” ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” And a third and fourth signal for water was answered, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling from the mouth of the Amazon River. Often times along our journey we are in search of much needed resources to accomplish the task.  We look for solutions from strangers, we ask for money to start a new business, we look for help from people who have their own work to struggle through.  If we pay attention and look at our own gifts, our own abilities, our own experiences we may have been floating on the resources we need all along.  Sometimes there is a solution to your problem right beneath your feet.  Take the problem faced by the mission of Apollo 13.  The astronauts were in danger of carbon dioxide poison.  Check out the video 

 to see how the scientist on the ground cast down their bucket where they were.  You can solve your problem if you just look around and pay attention.  The solution is much closer than you think.