Life lessons can come from the most unlikely places, once you become open to receiving them. Once you stop compartmentalizing life, there are rich insights to be gained from places you might never previously have given any thought. Like Thai food…
1. You’ll never get the best out of either by being half-hearted. If you hold back on the chillies and other spices, Thai food won’t have much savour. The same is true for life; conviction is the secret ingredient for success.
2. It needn’t take long to produce great results. Just as you can produce a great Thai stir-fry in minutes, you can create something fantastic in your life in a short time. The road to achievement doesn’t have to be long and slow and hard.
3. You get out what you put in. You’ll never make good Thai food with bad ingredients and a bad attitude. Whatever you do, if you don’t put care into it, you’ll never get the best out of it.
4. Neither is meant to be a spectator sport. There’s not a great deal of enjoyment to be gained by sitting on the sidelines. If you hang around while Thai food is being made, you may find yourself coughing and spluttering at the pungent cooking aroma of the chillies and ginger etc. But the flavour…