You’ve surely come across the departments in airports and train stations that allow you to store your luggage temporarily, so that you’re able to wander the city you’re visiting without your luggage? Today’s post asks you to do just that everyday before you step into the kitchen. Let go of your baggage. The trouble you’re having at home, that annoying person on public transport, the fact that the rent is due next week, how your kids are doing at school.
It doesn’t mean ignoring them or not facing up to what’s weighing on your mind. But put it aside momentarily when you show up to your work. You are then less likely to take it out on the someone else in the kitchen. What would the world be like if we all brought our baggage with us everywhere we went?
But what’s the real benefit of letting go? Two things:
- It opens up space for something positive to arise out of a negative situation. When you’re solely stuck in what’s wrong, that’s what you get. But living with that discomfort and still showing up indicates acceptance of your circumstances. You’ve kind of learnt the lesson. Now your mind can move towards finding a way out.
- This is the most important one of all. Maybe you’e never thought of it this way, but whatever you bring to the kitchen ends up on the plate. It may be invisible, but that’s what your customers are getting, along with the garnish and the sauce and the fancy smear you decorate your plate with.
I’ll leave you to ponder that thought. But remember the original lesson here: to let go of your baggage.