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Regular readers know I highly recommend chocolate in your diet, preferably organic, in part due to its high antioxidant value. Chocolate also provides serotonin and phenylethyalanine, two key brain compounds that give you a sense of wellbeing, plus hundreds of other nutrients (see Discover The Secret Energized You, pages 54++, http://tinyurl.com/d9e7d7). No wonder you feel better when you eat or drink something chocolate.
Several key things keep people from eating chocolate: pesticides, soy, and fats. To minimize pesticides, buy your chocolate or cocoa organic, if possible. If a product makes you tired, switch brands. Soy as soy lecithin is present in most chocolate candy. If soy gives you indigestion, spikes your blood pressure, or otherwise malfunctions in your body, look for chocolate without lecithin, or with sunflower lecithin. Currently, 100% cocoa baking bars are the most likely chocolate bars to have no lecithin. Read the labels carefully.
Another no-soy option also solves the issue of fats: use cocoa powder to flavor your milk, sweets, or baked goods. Try this simple recipe for no-soy, no-fat chocolate syrup: equal parts water (filtered, please!), organic sugar, and cocoa powder. Heat and stir with a tiny wire whisk, or two forks together, until it turns into syrup. Adjust the proportions to taste. Stir it into your milk or soymilk for a cold or hot cocoa treat. For a thicker sauce to pour on deserts, dissolve 1 tablespoon agar agar or kuzu starch in 2 tablespoons water, then, stirring often, add ¼ cup water, ¼ cup organic sugar, and ¼ cup cocoa powder, and heat/stir until it turns into sauce.
Let me know how you use it!
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In “Latitude of Lateness”, I posed a few questions to help people focus on the role of lateness in their lives. On the positive side, what are you teaching people about yourself when you are regularly on time? When you always do what you say you will do, when you said you would, or sooner, what do other people know about you? They know they can count on you. Especially in this time of constant, rapid change, that distinguishes you greatly.
If you are often late, you may be taken as a selfish person who does not have regard for the person you are meeting or the organization you are providing products for. Socially, if you are late for coffee dates and theater dates, you give the message that the other person is just not as important as whatever else is in your day. And what about being late to that board meeting, with a publicly advertised start time, when you are a member of the Board? Should everyone wait for you? My publisher at Brooks Goldmann Publishing, Patricia Brooks, says simply, “When people are late, they are selfish and are thinking only of themselves. I wait only 15 minutes for them and ONLY once!”
Certainly, there are occasional events that interrupt even the most reliable, organized, timely people. My friend Mollie Kidari is a guru of youth programs, both local and international. Mollie says, “Lateness is not always through selfishness. Sometimes it is being a single mom with three daughters with three different agendas, and three different crises that can happen before getting in the car in the morning.” This week, I myself had an unbelievable week with three relatives in two hospitals in another state. I could hardly think of anything except my newborn grandniece in an oxygen tent with her collapsed lung. Until her grandfather went into a nearby hospital with kidney failure, later that day. My shock “whited out” almost everything but my emotions. It whited out the deadline for one of my columns, and I submitted it a half-day late. The Editors fortunately bore in mind that I am normally one of the reliable, organized, timely people, and they accepted my submittal.
If you are regularly late, do you mind being seen as a chronically late person? Would you like people to think of you as a reliable person, who keeps his/her agreements? Longtime friend Robert Andrews used to be late a lot, and he knew it. He wanted to change that. He says, “Lateness is a lifestyle rather than a time-related situation. It took me many years to finally make a lifestyle change, for something that most people think is ‘not a problem… just start earlier.’ It took time, and was very difficult, much like any successful therapy.”
Can you change to timely habits? Anyone can, if they want to. What will you choose?
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Next time: How to Lose Your Lateness. Reach the author at Kebba@DiscoverTheSecretEnergizedYou.com .
