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Back to the Basics

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Talk To The Cook
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My wife recently became discontent with our evening dinners.

I would notice her plate as I finished eating my plate and her
plate would be barely touched. I would ask her why she ate so
little and she would respond, "It's just not good to me."

I didn't get upset and tell her how many children were starving
around the world, I just calmly asked her to send her complaints
to the cook. There was only one problem with this answer.

She was the cook.

She would always have to laugh when she realized that she was
the cook. I recently suggested that she take cooking lessons
since she didn't like her own cooking and my cooking was even
worse. I found a master chef who agreed to come into our home
and teach her. After a few classes, I noticed her plate and it
looked as though it had already gone through the dishwasher.

This was a lesson that we all need in some area of our life.

Most areas of our lives could be better if we just did something
about it.

If you are not pleased with your knowledge, talk to the student;
you are the student.

If you are not pleased with your marriage, talk to the spouse,
no not the other spouse, the spouse reading this.

If you are not pleased with your spiritual life, talk to the
seeker.

If you are not pleased with your weight, talk to the eater.

Sometimes we would rather talk to everyone except the only one
who can really do something about a problem.

Most times in our lives we are that someone.

We can be our own best coach, our own best motivator, our own
best challenger, if we would just tell ourselves the right
things. Sometimes others don't believe in us because we don't
believe in ourselves.

Next time something doesn't taste right in your life,
try talking to the cook.