Sunday, January 30, 2011

Ranch Dressing makes everything better.

It does. Seriously. Ever mess up a recipe? Just put ranch in it. Breaded Chicken come out wrong? Too much Pepper or canola oil? Put Ranch on it. Quinoa come out undercooked? soak it in Ranch.

Shameless segway into the big picture:

What is the Ranch in your life?

Relationship not turn out the way you want?
Promotion at work turn out to suck?
Car break down?
Dog get knocked up by your neighbors cat?

So you get the point. But here is where I will challenge you. What if there wasn't any "Ranch" to make it better? Lets looks at this for a second. Instead of fixing the symptom, how about fixing the problem? For instance. if your own recipe of life keeps coming out requiring more and more ranch, it's time to take some cooking lessons.

Enough of cheesy metaphors. Here is the brass tacks. Most everything in our lives is there because we want it to be there. Barring health things or random events, pretty much everything we complain about is due to our decisions.

There comes a point where one has to decide what one is willing to tolerate. We have to decide that the ranch is no longer good enough and we are going to fix the underlying problem. And sometimes that involves letting go of things that we truly treasure. At least for me, I know I have to let a few things go in my life. It is painful to do that, and as much as you want to explain it, they just wouldn't understand. Maybe they will.

Red Beans and Rice Did miss her...

I know it has been a long time since I have posted and I am "fixin" to do just that. But first, I have to cook dinner.