Month: November 2013

Don’t Defer Your Goals to the New Year

Please don’t defer your goals to the New Year. If you do, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. There’s no better time than now. As I shared last week in my post about the Jellybean Life, we only have so many total days to spend on this earth.

Therefore, you must choose how you spend your time wisely.  I’m sure we all can agree that not taking action while waiting for some arbitrary day is not a good way to spend it.

Over the last 3 days, I kept hearing people say stuff like:

  • I am going to start my job search in the New Year
  • I am going to lose this Thanksgiving weight in the New Year
  • I am going to pay off this credit card debt in the New Year
  • I am going to start my blog in the New Year

We have a little more than 31 days left in 2013. Our most valuable resource is time.  Why waste 747 hours and 55 minutes (it’s 8:05 pm as I write this) waiting for the New Year?

Every second, every minute, every hour, and every day of your life counts.

How This Man Washes Dishes on Thanksgiving

How does this man wash dishes on Thanksgiving?  

Very graciously. I don’t do much talking. I play some classic holiday jazz music in the kitchen and keep a strong cocktail within arms reach.

I wash as many dishes as I can until someone relieves me.  I always turn down the first reliever, but once the second reliever offers to step in and take over, I hightail it out of the kitchen as soon as I can.

Before I bust that move, I dry and put away as many dishes as I can, sweep the floor, wipe off the counters, and give my wife a big kiss telling her she did a great job hosting.

Then I’m ghost.

How This Man Boils Perfect Eggs on Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving my wife is making the deviled eggs. Usually, I don’t have much to offer when it comes to helping her cook. Today, however, I was pleasantly surprised when she asked me about my trick to boil eggs.

It’s not really a trick, it’s more of a system for boiling eggs. I do it whenever I boil eggs and get just about the same result every time: perfectly boiled eggs that are easy to peel.

All I do is put the eggs in a pot of cold water; just enough water to cover the top of the eggs.  Then I bring the water to a boil with the eggs in the pot.

After that, it’s super simple. Just turn off the heat and let the eggs sit in the water for 10 minutes.  I always use the timer to make sure I remove the pot of eggs precisely at 10 minutes.

Finally, I run cold water over the eggs within the pot to create steam within the eggshell. The steam created within the eggshell and cold water then makes the egg super easy to peel.

That’s it.

Although my wife can boil eggs just fine, the fact that I have this system made me worthy of seeking advice from today. I felt like the “boiled egg” hero as I carefully explained my trick to make perfectly boiled eggs.

Now I’m not sure if all men boil eggs like this, but all men should. Especially if they want to become the “boiled egg” hero in their house just like I am today.