Grandmom’s cookies and Masterchef Secrets of Newmarket
Do you make cookies, and others delicious sweet things for your grand children, your children, and even for yourself?
HOW A STORY OF COOKIES CAN REVEAL YOU TO YOURSELF
I love to do cooking for my friends, my family, and curiously, I don’t really do it for myself, or just do it but with less attention and intention!
And I know we all do those kind of things, it just scratched on my noose while I was watching one of my fav’ TV shows the other day: “Master Chef” :
Here is the interesting story, that made me deeply think about my whys in my life, and my network marketing activities:
For those Moms of you, and grand Moms who don’t know yet that show, “Master Chef” is a kind of contest, which is filmed for the TV, it runs on 10 weeks challenges,
The competitors are anyone who is PASSIONATE with cooking and want to bound with this contest to a new life ,living his/her cooking passion.
Out of 26.000 first candidates, 30 are selected for the TV shows challenges, and then 20 are kept after the first week of tests, and then 2 of them are eliminated each week, on the all week of challenges.
Last week, I was watching a recording of the Finale, the 2 best candidates still in the competition, Elizabeth and Xavier. One of the 3 last challenges was to prepare a complete 3 courses gastronomic diner for 30 persons, as if they are cooking in their restaurant.
For help, the 2 candidates were given each 4 “kitchen-commis” , who were the 8 others best “cook” of the show, that competed with them.
So they had to choose one by one the persons who would compose their team, and then give them each the tasks to take care of to achieve the required challenge.
My Tilting point jumped to my face when one of the commis was interviewed, during the test, to comment was was going on on her team side, and she said” ho, I’m so proud to be choosen by Kathy for this finale, I’m giving my best to help her to win, I feel so responsible for her to win, that I do better than I would do for me! Promess!…..”
That young lady was eliminated during the half finale, the week before.
What that yelled at me ?
What hurted so much my ears ?
Do I do as good when it’s for me as when it’s for others ?
The answer that I had put a big light on WHY I had been struggling so long in my businesses, to get results, and even thou I get results, they are still too small for my dreams.
What motivates us ?
Why do we do so much less for ourself than for others ? Aren’t we valuable and deserving too?
I realize that I allow to myself lazyness and « just sufficient » action, to get results, and this attitude leads me to same level results, even thou I believe I am motivated to earn 10 times what I actually earn for now… what a joke, hahaha !
So the motivation is here, but the reasons to be lazy , or make less efforts are stronger….
mmmm. do I have a law self-esteem….?
I decide I would do as if I was really giving my best, for another person, as that’s how it seems to work with human nature. But this time, the other one was THE PERSON THAT I WANT TO BECOME.
Imagine your boss gives you $ 5000 per week to do the tasks that he is supposed to do for starting his online business and put it on hight speed for the next years…
Wouldn’t you spend hours and overcome your fears of anything to get those $5000 by each Saturday , miss nights out with your girl friends, skip a surf session, and stay in your home office instead , all that to do what it takes ? Eliminate interruptions, distractions of your life to achieve the goal determined by your boss ? because you want him to pay you for providing honestly the results he demands.
Asking myself those questions, my answer was « YES I of course I would freaking do it! »
Then what is the smart way to act on this now : be my own boss, and work for this boss !
Thank you Master Chef ! You kicked my but to « just do it » !
Not only I get to watch one of my favorites shows on the TV, but also I get to be conscious about how my attitude needs to switch in order to walk on the road to success.
here is the video of Elizabeth during the selections , from 1000s of candidates.
To all the Moms , Grand Moms, Aunties , who want to succeed in working at home, make a great retirement to spend time cooking for your family and kids, have fun doing what you love , and time for it, that is my recipe of the day :
1- be as demanding for yourself as you are for others,
2- decide today that you have to adopt a discipline for that,
3- make it easier and do-able by choosing the right means and tools for your home business : watch that.
4- Do it !
PS . Grandmoms, next time you start making cookies, or cook for your kids , think about making for them the same as YOU WOULD DO FOR YOU ! You get to see what you value yourself at.
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TELL ME HOW THIS HELPS YOU!
If you don’t want more, DO NOTHING, and stay poor.
And BTW, the winner of Master Chef 2011 is Elizabeth, and with her 100.000 Euros, she wants to create a Patisserie-Salon-de-The , where she’ll make….cookies !
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