Waffles are a metaphor for getting the life you want. Looking at each waffle cell can help remind you that you’re not limited to syrup or honey in just one cell. There can be a sweet overflowing abundance.
This week I made a sweet snack: waffle s’mores. S’more please! 😋
What I love about waffle machines are that you can make individual, or to-order waffles in my home kitchen restaurant (haha). My way is imperfect (aka easy!) and fast. You have waffles in less than 5 minutes and enjoy in less time.
And without having to fire up the oven or a sautee pan when you’re not in the mood or it’s warm outside (like these 80-degree November days). I have a simple Cuisinart waffle maker that you can find (or a similar one) with a Black Friday deal. To justify with inflation, you’ll save money not cranking up the oven!
Then when you use an oil spray bottle, you don’t need to add oil in your waffle batter recipe. You use less and that can be healthy good and economical. And spraying, makes waffl-ing fast (...ok, what is the term for cooking waffles?). 🧇
In a pinch, you can use an emptied regular 16.9 oz water bottle. Then screw a clean spray nozzle spray to the bottle, like the kind you use to water mist a plant that’s easy to find at a convenience store, if one’s not in your home.
And then add pour in your choice of mild oil. You can choose from canola and coconut, to light EVOOs. Then lightly spray the waffle maker, top and bottom. And with light oils you can make savory waffles, and not just sweet ones. Just sayin’! 💡
And whatever kind you choose,the waffles come out easy… sometimes in seconds, and you get this nice browned waffle.
Ahhh… and there it is, fast and easy. Forget about pancakes.🥞 Those are so-last year. Now, I just made the pancake people unhappy.
Just kidding, but I probably will stick to waffles myself.
…And you?
Sharing about waffles, I’m reminded of some franchise hotel breakfasts where they have self-waffle machines. So that’s where you may have practiced before too. Those are the sweet morning kind served indoors. I made the s’mores kind good also for outdoors. 🪵
So, to make the melted waffle sandwich, just tear or cut with a knife your waffles into 4 or quarter sections, and use 2 sections for the top and bottom “buns.” Add your sandwich ingredients like chocolate and marsmallow in the middle (check that the middle layer ingredients don’t go over the sides of the waffles). Then put your sandwich back in the waffle maker until your sandwich ingredients are melted (like a panini maker).
All this can take less than 5 minutes to make when you become a pro waffle maker.
On the lighter topics, this is my new home kitchen tool obsession. 😊
And when I gradually switched from a victim mindset to an abundant one, that’s when I could start manifesting and co-creating new and better things. That’s creativity in the highest.
Wow, that’s a big leap forward but that’s where I’m going this week.
Because I believe there’s nothing more important than getting ourselves and our mind-body aligned with what we want in life.
Our decisions come from the lens we look out from. And in how we nurture our lives. We can make fear-based decisions that don’t help us.
I know this because I lived for the first 35 years of my life with a victim lens that I wasn’t even aware of. You can learn this in relationships where you react. And those reactions give you highlighted feedback.
And you can learn from other clues. Like when I created a vision board when they were popular (maybe they still are?), none of the pictures I cut out and pasted on the board panned out because I was looking from the wrong lens. Those ideas came from the same limiting victim mind that I used to look out from in my everyday life.
And after a massive corporate layoff I was part of, I had a chance to make bolder self-improvement changes as I restarted my life in most areas.
That’s when I connected the dots, expanded my horizons, and put to use my knowledge of the mind-body connection.
And I worked to slow down stress. That’s not totally doable or ideal working in the city. But, it was a big step forward from my past.
Plus, living in a city environment, there are more options, like many yoga studios and classes to choose from. And the environment you’re in can help to center your intentions as it did for me.
And in the slow seasons of life when I was waiting for areas to pan out, I evolved into a better version of myself.
As I leaned into character trait desires I wanted in mind, body, and spirit, they gradually became my life in alignment.
And the veil of the victim mentality disappeared somewhere in those seasons. And when it did, I could see that in the past I held myself back. You know, those parts of you that make up you, but that your work never sees.
And changing those parts change you. For a better life, an adult walks or runs, and a butterfly flies. Neither creatures crawl around with the earlier life limitations.
With the ability to look up and out, you gain abundance with a higher viewpoint, which helps you to better look in.
And that starts by changing thoughts. Last time I shared on negative energy and that’s how life can be unless we proactively make the switch throughout the day so we can get to our abundant thinking.
Sometimes it’s easier to change the home thermostat temperature from cool to heat, than our minds.
We don’t do the switch if we’re not conscious because we have to fight against ego thoughts.
We can live tormented in our negative thoughts without catching on to how much time wasting it’s causing us.
Friend, I lived liked that for many years. So making up for lost time 😂, I choose to never live like that again. And you can too!
You can tell your ego to take a hike! And walk away from others’ egos, and not feeding their egos when they’re acting up.
If you’re aware of the concept of ego and how it’s the root of most people problems, then you’re ahead of the pack. And most high ego folks aren’t reading this because you know, they know it all. 😉
When I moved away from the Washington DC area, only then did I realize how polluted the air was, full of egos. It’s a great city with a lot to offer, but living there carries unique burdens.
It isn’t that other parts of America aren’t impacted by politics, but there it is in the air and not just on television or yard signs. People living there are very careful when speaking about politics (a big no-no), and a faux pas to mention in formal public setting conversations. And even informal ones.
Those ways trickled down to the suburbs where I spent most of my time. And early on in my work days, I would encounter other people’s egos all the time in management. I didn’t know what happened to that calm person from a few hours ago.
Today if I encounter those situations, I remove myself. Life’s too short. And that takes you steps away from getting the life you want.
Being under an ego spell, the other person doesn’t realize they’re engulfed by their ego at that moment (but they could if they chose to be more aware). They could choose the better thought channels.
But when it’s too late, they can appear like the Incredible Hulk compared to the normal person they usually are. Where did David go?
They act and say things that are off-base or aren’t how they usually react. You feel a huge disconnect as they try to rile you up with their words.
When you come back to that person later, the person remembers what or at least part of what you said and hopefully what they said. So that’s why it’s good to plant seeds when they’re unconscious. But just enough so you can get out alive, lol.
And often looking back, they’re sorry for what they said that no longer makes sense to them anymore why they struck a chord that way.
Were they just having a bad day? Did their medication not kick in? Or, does the person have split personalities?
Everyone, just blame it on what they ate (that’s not anti-inflammatory 😊), so you all can move on …and keep your ego at peace.
And as we’re only weeks away from the Holidays, I want to bring in the theme of peace as much as possible. That helps us stay calm and is just what the doctor ordered. 🍎