how to eat when you have to

Now-days, who has time to cook?! Who has time to do the dishes? Who has time to have a life if you have a career? Who has time to hear the nonsense your kids keep saying day after day? Who has time for themselves? Who has time? I don't. I don't have enough time. I asked you what hurts you in the kitchen, and John T said just one word, all-caps, three exclamation points: TIME!!! Well, John T, I feel your pain. I feel it now. I have 5 minutes to tell everything I have to say about time - cooking time, time spent in the kitchen, time given to us. It's an impossible task. I might as well give up, because I don't have the answers. And I don't have time. So let's not talk about time. Let's talk about three things that will help us to transcend time. Today we are going to talk about Obligations, Ambitions and Priorities. Obligations are the things you need to worry about. Ambitions are the things you want to worry about. Priorities are ways to arrange your am...

I delivered the speech today and here is the list of pain points from the audience: John T : TIME!!! John O: I have a tendency  to cook "by the book". I want to use all the ingredients and measurements given in the recipe. Then when we don't have anything called for I lose all confidence in the meal Doug: Getting my kids to eat the veggies Doug: Cleaning the kitchen every day Doug: Getting home late at night: what's for dinner? Penelope: consomme, flan, white wine reductions, meat loaf Alice: I hate cooking! I only like the 'bad food': Beer and Chocolate! Jurate: I don't like cleaning the kitchen Jurate: I don't like to cook if there are too meany complicated ingredients in the recipe Andrew: I don't have to cook. Washing dishes is what I least enjoy in the kitchen Ian: What hurts me is that  I don't have a kitchen where I feel comfortable cooking without being interrupted or monitored and  I don't currently live in a place wh...

The second project in TM CC manual is called "Organize your speech". This is not the project I am doing today. The name of today's project is "Organize the Mother of your speech" and the objectives are to build a platform that will let you deliver a number of speeches on a topic you are passionate about and the topic your audience can appreciate. The topic is "How to cook when you have to" and today I am going to define the problem that keeps bothering me for over 20 years. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, do you have to cook? I am not asking: "Can you cook"? I am not asking "Do you like cooking?" Do you have to cook? It's a simple yes or no question. And to help you answer this question I am going to give you two examples of two people who did not have to cook and two people who had to cook. That will help you assessing where you stand and at the end of my speech we will see if I found my audience. First example. When ...