Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope this finds you all well…
As you can tell from my lack of blog posts I have been extremely busy. In fact I am currently trying to convince my fingers to type a little faster so that I can post here just a tease of what is to come when I have some time to write which I believe will be either Friday night, Saturday morning or Sunday.
The things that I will be writing about include and this is as much for my reminder as it is to tease you;
Breaking the record on the grill (having served over six hundred chits in one day with only fifty minutes help, one bathroom break and a pretty big mistake I made)
Having an awesome chat with Executive Chef about me, what I’m doing and where I’m going
Having a horrible chat with Head Chef in which I was reduced, shattered and felt like a complete asshole.
And finally a post will be forthcoming about my thoughts on food, my restaurant and why I love every minute of the agony and the ecstasy.
I apologize for not having the time to write. But I can assure you that the posts that are coming are top notch and will have you both in stitches and tears.
We cooks are by our very nature go go go. The past couple of weeks has seen me have no day off, work at least twelve to sixteen hours a day, shuffle between the agony and the ecstasy and fighting an enormous amount of pain BUT I would not change what I am doing or who I am doing it for.
I AM GOING PLACES, one step at a time and with a humbled heart.
Are you living your dream? Can you say that you know the agony and the ecstasy? Find it? Live it? Go and become what you always wanted because when you get to your deathbed the only person you have to blame for not living the life you wanted to is YOURSELF.
A long time ago my mother exposed my sister to Virginia Satir (and I think I was probably 11 or 12) and for some reason today I feel as if it is appropriate to share it with all of you;
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me -
everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,
because I alone choose it - I own everything about me - my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
whether they be to others or to myself -
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears -
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts -
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know -
but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me -
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded -
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me -
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me -
I am me &
I AM OKAY
by Virginia Satir
With that I bid you well on your own journey and promise that I will have you in laughter and tears when I get to write the next posts.
Sam Walton (YES THE WALMART WALTON) once said; “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”
Believe in yourself everyone… BE INSPIRED AND DREAM BIG!
A la prochaine
SDM
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