Pots and Pans

Let’s say you are cooking dinner

You are preparing a beautiful feast. You went to the store and got all the ingredients you need, talked to the guests, and cleaned the house. Now all you have to do is cook it, and to do so; you use dirty pots and pans.

Do you think that is going to affect the meal?

Your emotions are the pots and pans of our projects.

Every time we act like they don’t exist after the meal, we end up leaving yesterday’s “gunk” on them. Even if its light “gunk,” one or two days mean that every meal is affected.

Why pots and pans

When setting up a meal, the guests don’t usually see how you prepare it. They notice the house, the ingredients, and the other guests. The cookware is important because they determine the look, the taste, and the texture all the while not being seen.

Our emotions determine the look, the taste, and the texture in all the problems we take on.

Ignoring your emotions

We are often told to ignore our feelings.  Famous sayings like “grin and bear it” are repeated over and over and drill it into our heads that emotions just “float away” if you deal with them.

Meanwhile, they continually color what we see and how we deal with the problems ahead.  When we don’t deal with them, we lose out on the ability to think straight.

I saw this study that stated that emotional pain lights up the same places as physical pain.

If someone slaps you, do you tell yourself you didn’t get hit?