A Smorgasbord of Goodies

byFreisia

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Updated 5 years ago

A Smorgasbord to Feast On.

An Alaskan Cruise

A couple of years ago we traveled to Vancouver then boarded a Celebrity Cruise Ship to explore the inside Passage to Alaska.

It was an amazing trip and one I would happily do again. Everything about it was beyond description. The rooms, the facilities, the shops, the entertainment and of course the food. That is what I am going to write about here. The food. The abundance of wonderful gourmet food beautifully presented to tantalize the most discerning palettes. The choice, the quality and the quantity was mind blowing.

Gourmet Mash Up

However what struck me was the way some people ate like it was to be their last meal on planet earth. Their plates would be piled high with a bit of this, a bit of that and a bit of everything else. All of these wonderful dishes so lovingly created by the chefs would be all thrown into together to re-form into a jumble of flavors so that the original intended recipe could no longer be determined. They became no more than a gourmet mash up.

I have worked in hospitality myself and all too often watched in horror as all my unique dishes would be all combined on a plate, sometimes piled on top of each other. I wondered why I bothered to go to so much trouble in the first place. Then when it is time to clean up you find a pile of dinner plates with enough left on them to feed a small army. This all gets thrown to the chooks and again I wonder, why did I present them with so many delicious dishes when all they did was mix it together then throw a large amount away.

I soon figured it was better to plate up and serve each guest a well planned meal which would satisfy their appetites, allow them to taste each component and leave a relatively clean plate.

Wealthy Affiliate is a bit like a Smorgasbord

In thinking about this it struck me that Wealthy Affiliate is a bit like a smorgasbord. There is so much material in here to totally crowd our minds and get lost in the files of our brains. We then need to defragment our brains to get some order in our thinking processes.

If we can take time and focus fully on each element of the training one gem at a time rather than racing ahead trying to grab everything at once we will not suffer mental indigestion and will make better use of each new thing we learn. There will be less waste and ultimately we will achieve optimum results.

Adding to the smorgasbord of goodies within Wealthy Affiliate, many of us ( me included) are guilty of allowing our eyes to feast on some of the offerings outside, what they call shiny objects. Then we wonder why we seem to be going round in circles and not really progressing.

Folks we need to be disciplined enough to focus on the best and leave the rest. The best is all here in Wealthy Affiliate. I have determined now to try to remain focused on all that is on offer here, one lesson at a time.