Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!
If you sit down for a special meal with your favorite guest and find the menu contains exactly what you’ve been craving, are you likely to order a kids size meal or are you deciding how to get enough for a doggy bag to cover you for the next three, non-breakfast meals?

Did you know it typically takes on average 20 minutes for your stomach to send a message back to the brain that it is full.  Knowing this, do we eat slowly to wait for “the message”, do we eat the portion dished up for us to be polite or do we order extra and keep shoveling until we are stuffed beyond comfort and pay dearly with cramps and other gastrointestinal chaos.

Let me pause and share that an old friend would often caution me and others with,  “Be careful what you wish for.”

What if your favorite meal scenario was a microcosm of your life?
•What if the food symbolized everything you needed to live a full and meaningful life?•What if you knew how long you’d live and could manage your resources to maximize joy, minimize pain and optimize your life?•Do you think that portion you selected would be less than you currently enjoy or more?
Is it possible that glutinous behaviors through life are like the gastrointestinal chaos if you’ve stuffed your face (or drank yourself stupid or smoked a carton of cigarettes a day) or … pursued more than what was healthy, necessary, prudent or wise?
I grew up with little and longed for more. I was willing to work harder than anyone I knew to acquire the next level of success, at times neglecting some of the most meaningful parts of life along the way. The cost of pursuing more is higher than we realize while under the trance of the pursuit.
They say perfect is the enemy of good. Similarly, more might be the enemy of sufficient.
Have a blessed weekend!