{"id":22375,"date":"2013-12-04T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T07:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:47:21","slug":"wahm-tip-do-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/wahm-tip-do-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"WAHM Tip: Do it Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"humana<\/a>\n

My comfort zone in regards to trying new business things is pretty wide, but yesterday I participated in a cooking event that fell outside of that zone. I\u2019m glad that I did it anyway and I want to share the two questions that help me to decide whether or not to try new opportunities.<\/p>\n

First, let me explain WHY it fell outside of my comfort zone. When I was initially contacted to participate in the Humana (a health and well-being company) event, it was going to be a healthy holiday recipes cook-off involving some of the top food bloggers in the NYC area. The two main thing that caused me to pause was that 1.) I didn\u2019t want to compete against any of my friends and 2.) Cooking live is very different than cooking with and for family and friends! <\/p>\n

My decision was to DO IT ANYWAY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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These were the two questions that helped me to make this decision:<\/p>\n

1.) What was the WORST that could happen?<\/strong> I could lose. Life would still go on and I would still get paid for participating. Also, I would be able to help benefit a food-related charity. (Humana donated $30,000 to Island Harvest at the event.)<\/p>\n

2.) What was the BEST that could happen?<\/strong> I could meet some wonderful new food bloggers, have a great experience, learn some new things and do one of the things that I enjoy the most \u2013 connect with a group of people at a more intimate level. (Oh yes, winning would be great too!)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad that I did it. I had a blast. It ended up not being a competition at all. That worked out perfectly, because the other two bloggers were Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen<\/a> and Diana Yen of Jewels of New York. As I joked on Facebook, they \u201cwould have wiped the floor with me\u201d in a real healthy food competition. I\u2019m pretty confident that I could hold my own in a southern\/comfort food competition with (almost) anyone though :-). <\/p>\n

Besides being amazing cooks, Deb and Diana were lovely people. We had fun chatting and comparing notes on what we liked to cook, different techniques and such in between our various demos. Most of all, I appreciated being able to interact with people who actually made and ate my food. The caterer Anthony Dagostino of Moriches Caterers (who made the samples of our dishes for the audience) was so sweet. He\u2019s Italian and likes a lot of garlic, so we joked that we would each add another clove of garlic to my avocado hummus recipe<\/a> if it was just for us. He also said that I made him a believer that you could make sweet potato pie<\/a> with half the sugar, butter and milk because my pie was so good. It\u2019s one thing for friends and family to enjoy the things that you prepare. That\u2019s the most important thing to me. However, it\u2019s like icing on the cake to know that your directions are easy to follow and that complete strangers can get delicious results with your recipes too!<\/p>\n

I write this to encourage you to try things that might fall out of your personal comfort zone \u2013 whether it is life or business related. What is the worst that could happen? Could you live with that? If so, then go for it! You never know\u2026the BEST (or even better than what you can conceive of as \u201cbest\u201d) might very well happen! <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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