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When it comes to vegetables, one method of cooking definitely does not fit all. For example, carrots can pretty much stand up to any style of cooking, but boil them, and you’ll want to run in the opposite direction. Brussels sprouts, the scourge of nursery school students everywhere, are most delicious pan-roasted, but steam them, and you’ll wind up with something you’d probably not want to feed to the pooch. Here’s a short list of what to cook, and how.

Cabbage

Slice, panfry, or salt in olive or sesame oil with a tablespoon of butter.

Brussels Sprouts

Roast at high heat with a drop of olive oil and a drizzle of soy sauce.

Carrots

Cook in a skillet on top of the stove with 1 tablespoon oil,  cup water, and 1 tablespoon sugar. Cook small carrots whole and cut larger ones into chunks or rounds. Also delicious roasted.

Broccoli

Oven-roast, panfry, or steam with a sprinkle of salt and a drizzle of olive oil. If steaming, check after 5 minutes to make sure they’re fork-tender, then remove them from the heat immediately.

Hardy Greens (chard, kale, collards, mustard greens)

Salt on top of the stove only in olive oil, sesame oil, or butter. If the leaves are tough and fibrous, remove the stem, roll the leaves up like a cigar and sliver them for quick cooking.

Tender Greens (spinach, escarole, watercress)

Steam quickly or salt on top of the stove and drizzle with oil.

Eggplant

After salting and rinsing, slice into rounds or cubes, roast in the oven, or salt on top of the stove.

Winter Squash

Steam, roast, or panfry with a drizzle of olive or sesame oil.

Summer Squash (zucchini or yellow squash)

Steam or panfry with a bit of olive or sesame oil.

Beets

Roast on the grill or in an oven; let cool, peel, and drizzle with olive oil and salt.

Write down 10 of your wildest dreams and next to each, write down one step that you will take to achieve that goal. This action will allow you to start focusing on the important things. For example, I want to own an island one day. If I don’t set any action step(s) in place to start achieving that, then I will wander aimlessly continuing to just hope.

Tell others about your outlandish goals. Most people will either laugh at you or put you down when you tell them about your wildest dreams. Let that fuel your fire to prove them wrong. There is no better feeling than proving someone wrong that said you couldn’t achieve something.

Set 1 week  1 month  6 months  1 year goals for each of your big dreams. Start by setting deadlines so that you know you must have this or that done by a specific time. By doing this, you will remain focus even after you have completed your initial small goals. This is the best way to keep progressing on your journey.

Commit a minimum of one hour per day to an action that will help you reach your goal(s). For example, if you want to have $500,000 in the bank in the next 5 years, take a baby step and commit one hour each day to reading personal finance and wealth development books, articles, and interviews. Take every opportunity to solve one piece of the puzzle daily. The worst thing that happens is that you educate yourself a little bit more on what you need to do to be successful.

Be different. Stop being a part of the  steeple. Blaze your own path to success and start accepting change. Most people that achieve their dreams didn’t do it how others told them to do it. In fact, they did it the exact opposite way a lot of times. Don’t follow others when they are leading you down a path of comfort and stability. The brightest scrap their way to the top while the others access mediocrity.

Accept that you are the only one that will make your dreams a reality. Friends, family, coworkers may help you along the way, but they aren’t going to be on top of you 24/7. That is all you. You have to be the one at practice before everyone else and leave after everyone else. You have to read more. You have to learn more. Its all on you. Realize this and accept it. It is awesome knowing that you can be the reason for success and that you were the one who did everything to reach the mountain top. Others will only hold you back in the long run so start barreling ahead to success without them.

Learn one new thing today. If there is one thing you can do to be different than everyone else, learn something new today. Whatever it be, learn something. It doesn’t have to deal with your dream at all. Just the action of continuously adding to your mental capacity will keep you on your toes when the time comes. You never know when what you learn today will make your dreams a reality. There are a million things that have brought me into conversations and connections that have little if anything to do with my main goal or focus. However, that knowledge of one more thing opened one more door. That one more door may be your ticket to your dream.