The Pot Roast Story

Here's a brilliant story to illustrate the value in questioning and revising the way we do things when all is not working the way we want them to.

The Pot Roast Story

A newly wed husband noticed that every time his wife cooked a pot roast she would first cut an inch off either end before putting it in the oven. When asked why, she said "Because that's how you are supposed to cook pot roast." Unsatisfied with her answer he pushed until she admitted that she had learned it from her mother.

Waiting until a visit with his wife's mother, the husband asked, "Your daughter tells me you taught her to cook pot roast by first cutting an inch off each end?" To which the mother replied, "Well of course, that's how pot roast is cooked." But the husband was not to be deterred, and after pressing his mother-in-law on the subject she finally admitted that she'd learned it from her mother.

This meant the husband had to ask the wife's grandmother. When he finally got his chance he asked, "your daughter to me you taught her to cut an inch off each end of a pot roast before cooking. She swore it was a requirement, but I'm dying to know why? Is there any sane reason to throw away two inches of perfectly good meat in order to cook a pot roast?"

Laughingly the grandmother said, "Oh, heaven's no! You see in those days we were very poor and didn't own much cookware. I cut the ends off the pot roast so it would fit in my only pan!"

So the story goes...

As we go through the training here, many with some experience online are tempted to resort to doing things the way they have been taught from others. And even though the way we are accustomed to doing things are NOT producing the results we want; we trudge on not realizing there could be a better way.

Are we ready to change our world with a fresh perspective?

"Change is inevitable, so embrace it!"

All the Best!

~Gaylon Avery
Incomes-At-Home.com