Make usefulness out of what circumstances forgot to remove.

Circumstances take some things and leave others, and the leftovers are usually ignored because attention goes to the loss. Whatever remains is still material, and asking what can be made from it is a more productive question than continuing to audit what is gone.

After a setback, inventory what is still standing. Skills, relationships, partial work, time. Build the next thing from that list rather than from the version that assumed nothing had changed.