I’m eating eggs — 2, over easy — and 2 pieces of toast. I’ve also cut and crispied-up a leftover baked potato. These are the lessons learned
Yes, I think too much, and sometimes (oftentimes?) it gets silly. This is something I wrote during one of many breakfasts in 2011.
In Summary, here are the lessons I gathered as I enjoyed this fine meal:
- Pick the most enjoyable thing that’s going to help towards your goals first. It’ll get you started with ease.
- When two options present themselves and appear to be equally beneficial, go with your gut and begin on one.
- If, near the beginning, you have a question whether the other option may have been better, dive into that one and see how it goes.
- Early in the process, if testing out both options, use what you’ve learned from both to decide which option will likely move you forward towards your goals with the most satisfaction.
- Focus powerfully on just this option until it is has reached a point of satisfaction and ease.
- The above may be enough to get you to your goal(s). If not, move on to the second option.
- Act urgently, but not rushed, and find joy in the process through presence to the moment and gratitude in what the work provides you.
So I’ve got:
- 2 eggs overeasy;
- 2 pieces of toast;
- hashbrowns;
I decided to put honey on one piece of toast and one egg each over the potatoes and piece of toast. As a sidenote, I often have a breakfast that consists of one of these things but not both (eggs over toast, eggs over hashbrowns, toast with honey, etc.). Then, as I’m preparing my plate, I wondered if I should eat the sweet toast first or last. The thought process being that typically dessert should be saved for after. However, my mom always believed in dessert first, because you never know what’s going to happen next 🙂 (I love you mom!). Also, I realized I just wanted to eat the sweet toast right then, so I did.
Now, for the moment I decided to write this.
I sat down with my plate, one egg over the toast and one egg over the potatoes. I started to dive in, and just for a moment, I went back and forth trying to decide whether I wanted to start on the egg-and-toast or the egg-and-potatoes. I went for the egg-and-potatoes. I ate some, then cut into the egg-and-toast. Then went back to the egg-and-potatoes, working on them until they were almost finished. Went back to the egg-and-toast for a minute, then went back to finish off the egg-and-potatoes.
After this I worked on the egg-and-toast until that was finished too, still delicious and still warm. Now I’ve got a nice full belly, and I’m laughing with myself because I’m really writing this down.
What does this say about anything?
Well, it’s a decision process, and I had one goal: To fill my belly with delicious food. With what was in front of me, two projects presented themselves for me to work towards this goal:
- Eating the egg-and-potatoes, and…
- Eating the egg-and-toast.
How to do this for the best results was the decision I had to make.
Turned out I just picked one project (egg-and-potato) to start on…
it was a gut-feeling really.
I found that after working on this for a bit, I wanted to dive into the second project (egg-and-toast) to see how that went. While it was delicious, the egg-and-potato was slightly more tasty and was just as likely to move me forward towards a full belly (my end goal), so I focused primarily on that one project until I was satisfied with its progress.
It stood to reason this one project could get me all the way to my goal. But if not, I’ve got the egg-and-toast project to bring me down the homestretch. And I’m going to take the time to appreciate and enjoy this meal, but not to the point my food gets cold.
Thanks for reading. And you’re welcome.
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