You may ask, “What’s this posting on saving calories during the holiday season doing in a lawyer blog?”
This is my response: I think that the posting is interesting and from time to time I will wander from just lawyer stuff. Lawyers are people too -- in spite of what some lawyer bashers claim.
I’m also including this because whether or not you apply creative problem solving to your problems depends on your attitude. If you apply creativity to solving problems in your daily life, you may be more likely to apply that same creativity in your law practices.
Thus, once you start asking, “How can I be more creative in reducing calories,” you may be more likely to ask, “How can I be more creative in overcoming my opponent’s defenses.”
Now, here’s that way to have great deserts, save calories, and help someone else out. (I hope that this will be helpful not only for the holiday season but for the rest of the year as well.)
Let’s assume you’re at a party or a buffet and you see these great deserts laid out. Calories, calories, calories. You’d like to try a couple of different precut slices of the cakes or the pies, but your limit is just one slice. What to do?
Here’s what I’ve been doing: Just take a portion of the slice -- a half or a third of the slice. Iif you’re being served in a line, just ask the server to cut off a portion of the slice. Then you also can get a portion of a slice of something else, thereby tasting two delicacies for the calorie cost of just one slice.
At first I was a little embarrassed doing this, but I did it recently, telling the server why I wanted just a portion of a slice of chocolate cake. Interestingly, the woman who was behind me in line laughed, realizing what was happening. Then, expressing gratitude for the idea, she took the remaining half of the slice.
So, I helped me - - and I helped her.
After you try this, go back later to where you took the portion to check whether the remaining portion has been taken by some grateful fellow calorie saver. It’s amazing how often your remaining portion has somehow disappeared!
Posted by ajlevy at December 29, 2004 4:10 PM