Lessons I learnt from baking a cake

I rather cook than bake, but here are the life lessons I took away from baking a cake:

1. You need a recipe. Invest in your self development by reading books or attending courses. It points the way to the next step.

2. You don’t begin with the cake in hand. What you start off with is a few ingredients that do not even closely resemble a cake or for that matter taste like a cake. Try eating raw flour. Life will give you people and circumstances that do not seem like they are helping you get to greatness, and they are indeed yuck, but hang in there, it’s a vital ingredient to where life is taking you.

3. All ingredients must come togther as one. You need the support of others to succeed. There is no doing this on your own. Success is a team effort. Do not try to do life alone.

4. You need an oven. A really hot oven. Life gets really challenging and at times you may feel like you cannot handle the heat. Do not give up! You need the heat to become a success.

5. You need time. Even when all of the ingredients come together, you do not have a cake. It needs to be placed into the oven for 30 to 45 minutes. Be patient with your life. Do what you need to do and then let it go.

6. Do not check the cake by opening the oven too early. If you do this, your cake will flop. Do not keep doubting your decisions and plan. Doubt will be your biggest flop. You have done the hardest bit, now just trust.

7. Cakes can be molded to the container you place it in. It can be round or square or star shaped. You can be your own unique shape and define your life by being authentic and true to you. No snowflake is the same and no human being will be the same. In fact your success is largely dependant on you being you.

8. Share your creation. If you eat it yourself, you may put on extra weight or feel sick. Your life is for sharing. Share your skills, your knowledge, yourself with the world. Sharing is Caring. Not only does it show you care, but people will care for you too.

9. You eat a piece one bite at a time. You do not gobble it all in one bite. Take life one bite at a time. Handle what you can today. What you cannot, can be done later or tomorrow. You do not have to fix your entire life in a year. Life never gets fixed anyway, it’s just constant maintenance.

Love,
H