Recipes of Life
I believe that we all have these major life decisions that we’re looking to professionals to help with. We go to these competent sources of information in order to find how we get where we want to go. Whether it’s finances, our health, our occupational prosperity, relationship management or even just getting better at baseball.
These professionals know how people have done it before and the recipe that those people have followed. I am in the firm belief that that recipe (while great) is not for everyone.
When I cook, I follow a recipe - you should - I mean, I’m not Gordon Ramsay or Wolfgang Puck. I can’t just walk into a kitchen and whip up some Beef Wellington site unseen. I need some sort of direction. I need a recipe, but I always tweak that recipe to what my preferences are - if I’m not a fan of that ingredient or flavor - I’ll substitute it…if I think something else might go great with it - I’ll add it. That’s why there’s 300 different ways to make the same version of macaroni and cheese - it’s about preferences and what suites your taste buds best.
If the plans of how to better yourself - of how to make those major life decisions - aren’t suited specifically to you…it’s not going to work. You can make that 5 star recipe to its exact specifications that you got off Pinterest but if there’s onion in there and you don’t like onion - you’re going to hate the way it tastes.
We all have different wants, different needs. We all start from a drastically different starting point and most often times have different ideas of what that finish line looks like. You can’t use the same cookie cutter concept and expect the outcome to be wholly suited for your specific needs and wants.
If you go to a professional in order to make these huge life decisions and if they don’t seem to be interested in your specifics or what your wants and needs are - they’re going to give you a plan that will most likely fail - the same plan that has worked for 100s of other people but because it wasn’t designed for you specifically, didn’t work..
Find those professionals that will help find that recipe you’re looking for and that will sit down with you and tweak that recipe to give you what you truly wanted and needed.
