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May 9, 2010
How to be a good chef
It is not only what he puts on your plate but also how he handles leftovers that make a chef great. Did the thought ever cross your mind that the same applies to daily life?
Like a fabulous meal, achieving a success in business or in private life brings us great pleasure. But we will always have “leftovers,” and how we deal with them can make all the difference.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories,
stored in the refrigerator of the mind and
the cupboard of the heart.
- Thomas Fuller
Weeks of illness, days of grief, times of loneliness, moments of rejection will bring us pain and frustration. And it is exactly at these moments that we have to get the “leftovers” — aka memories — out of the refrigerator and recall the positive aspects of our life.
We may have to search a little deeper, but they are there — always. In fact, we can transform our leftovers from the good times into memories so they are ready when we need them to deal with our setbacks. Just throwing them into the garbage is not “environment friendly.”
Are you having a difficult time right now? Think of the leftovers from the good times!
