Life Is A Cooking Recipe
Make your life easier with an outline
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well — Robert Louis Stenson
Finding the right balance in life can be a daunting task. If we only focus on what we don’t have, our situation will never get better. Poker players play their hand the best they can even if it sucks. In life, we need to do the same. There are unwritten “recipes” that helps us navigate through life. I will share one with you.
Life Is A Cooking Recipe
This analogy has been on the back of my head for while. It’s one of those things that if you put it into practice the better you come at it. In my case, the more I put it into practice the more it seems to work.
We all know that life is too complicated. So what do we do? Hack the matrix and make it easier? Become bitter? Or work smart and play our poor hand well.
Chefs are an excellent example for us. Those people work hard. It’s incredible how many dishes they need to come up with in the nick of time. “Fire here, fire there, don’t let it burn, table 6 is hungry, where is the food!!”… How do they keep up? Are they human?
If you ask me, I would never be a chef. But there is an important lesson I can learn from them.
I learned complicated things can be broken down into simpler tasks.
Chefs have the ability to break down big tasks into smaller ones. They know how to follow instructions. They have outlines/instructions/plans/lists to help them handle their busy lives. The point is, they know how to organize their priorities. They know how to balance things out, they know what needs to be done first and after.
They have a ton of cooking recipes written down somewhere for sure. No way can they remember all of them. They don’t just access their memory at will and pull recipes out.
There are are a series of steps they follow, if they don’t, they will be overwhelmed. It’s the same with life. We can’t change it, but we can trace an outline to make it go smoother.
Rome wasn’t built in a day
If Rome wasn’t, why should your life be?
For all you procrastinators out there, make an outline of your next task/chore/project/job. You will see how smooth things go. You will feel motivated, less anxious, focused, happier, and accomplished in the end. There are no better feelings than that.
Make life work to your advantage. Make the best out of it. And don’t forget to celebrate each little achievement, even if it’s a small “yay!” it counts.
Takeaway
My advice is: Make an outline. Because in life, every step counts. Even if it’s something so small it might seem silly, it counts. The steps will accumulate over time. Without realizing it, you will have walked a mile (or a thousand?).
Know that you can save yourself from anxiety. Think in small chunks instead of big ones. You have nothing to lose. Put this advice into practice. Make an outline. See how things flow better. Learn from the pros. Break down your next project into manageable tasks.
