Create connotes willy-nilly. There’s nothing willy-nilly about my process.
I engineer everything I do – the entire recipe developing process is engineered. I don’t cross my fingers, take a deep breath or hold my breath, pray, hope, wish or hand it over to the universe. I take control at every juncture.
I don’t try something merely to see if it might fly, or just out of curiosity. The world is full of curious-seekers. I’m not one of them. If I’m thinking about it, I already have a pretty good idea whether it will or won’t fly or if it won’t, can I make it fly, and is it worth it? If I’m excited about the possibility I’ll continue. If I’m holding my breath, I won’t.
In the rare instances where I have to make more than one attempt, I do so knowing in advance that I will succeed – eventually. I keep the pace that the project sets for me – not the other way around. I don’t frantically test and retest to get it right. When the skill-set matches the mind-set and the products are available to make it happen, I’ll be there to make sure it does.
Nobody can tell me to hold up a project for their own self-serving interests. Nobody can tell me to give a project to somebody else whom the world favors more. I don’t have private investors who play all sides of the fence – even the top and the bottom of the fence (put it on hold or sink it parts of the fence).
I’m not a tumbleweed. I don’t go where the wind takes me. I make the wind turn in my direction – because it sees the value in going the way of the Five Principles.
I don’t force it. It wants to be a part of this great project.
If you want to be a part of it all, then show up with some talent and know what those talents are.
You can stay a tumbleweed if you want. But if you want in on this, then talk to that tumble part in you and line up with the Five Principles:
No prejudice, discrimination, enslavement, torture and slaughter.
There’s nothing willy-nilly about me nor my process.
Remember that.
Sharon Lee Davies-Tight, the animal-free chef
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