12 Steps to Whole Foods
Introduction How Will I Find the Time? The GreenSmoothieGirl Law of Physics On this site, and in my book, I often preach to the unbelieving a certain principle. It can be an uphill battle to get anyone to buy into my counterintuitive principle of physics until she gives it a try. And that GreenSmoothieGirl Law of Physics is that an expenditure of energy yields more energy. People are always saying to me, “I just don’t want to spend any time in the kitchen. I’m exhausted at the end of the day and don’t have the energy for it!” Many folks have gotten in the “energy conservation” habit of carefully doling out their limited energy for just the most basic of life activities (sleep, eat, work, start over), all while watching with great horror that energy pool ever shrinking. Readers of GreenSmoothieGirl.com know what I say, and I will repeat it here. A minute of kitchen time, eating the way I teach you to prepare food, yields two minutes of newfound energy. Time freed up that you used to spend in a depressed funk or, worse, oversleeping. Eating a GreenSmoothieGirl diet gives you quantifiable gains in energy that open up a whole new world of service opportunities, goal achievement, fun, the ability to invest in new and old relationships, and the disappearance of “energy conservation.” And I say that, as with spiritual faith, if you can’t believe that, then just experiment upon the word. Simply try it and tell me if I’m wrong. Don’t do it for two weeks, where everything is new and at first things take you longer. Commit to making my recipes for several months, because the learning curve flattens and you’ll finally understand what I’m talking about (as many have attested to in GreenSmoothieGirl.com blogs). For anyone who begins this journey seriously ill, you may need to give this experiment a full year to see the gains clearly. You think that the idea of spending a resource causing that same resource to double is simply scientific falsehood? For the sake of the semantic debate, even before you put it to the test, let’s compare it to three other arenas in life, to lower your cognitive dissonance. First, are you a parent of at least two children, or are you close to someone who is? Many first-time parents are so smitten by their firstborn that when they begin to consider bringing another baby into their family, they fret: “I’m not sure I can love another baby as much as I love this one.” Our concrete, finite minds not used to “abundance thinking,” sometimes can’t at first bend around the principle that spending can yield dividends. That is, there’s more to be had, good things multiply, scarce thinking breeds actual scarcity, and abundant thinking breeds actual abundance—in relationships and the world. Give some of your love and your capacity for love multiplies. And so parents take the leap and find, virtually universally, that they can, in fact, love another child as much as the first. So much love that it makes your heart nearly burst sometimes. Second, consider Olympic athletes. We all love swimmer Michael Phelps, of course. But Dara Torres is my alltime Olympic hero: because she is my age and she silver medaled three times in the 2008 Olympic Games. She did this all while nurturing her competitors and chasing a toddler and proving to all the disbelievers that she achieved her athletic prowess and physique naturally. She had earned a few Olympic gold medals before at least one of her 2008 competitors was even born. Do Olympic athletes have less energy because they give so much energy to their sports? No, they are fireballs of energy because energy begets energy. When they turn their attention to other things—volunteerism, media, 26 12 Steps to Whole Foods © Copyright Robyn Openshaw
Introduction business, family—they have plenty to give. And it doesn’t stop there: thousands of others are affected by their energy. I have a big photo of Dara Torres torn from a magazine taped right next to my computer screen. Her arms, holding her daughter, are ripped and beautiful, and they inspire me to push myself lifting weights. Third, if you’ve ever owned a real estate property or started a company, you know that spending money on improvements often brings more business and profits flooding in. Hence, the old saying, “You have to spend money to make money.” So it also is with the time you will spend in the kitchen preparing a GreenSmoothieGirl diet. That time will give back. It will richly bless your life. It will make possible your achieving goals you’ve had on the back burner a long time. Go make it happen, one recipe at a time, one day at a time. Just one step to whole foods at a time! © Copyright Robyn Openshaw 12 Steps to Whole Foods 27
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Introduction<br />
business, family—they have plenty <strong>to</strong> give. And it doesn’t s<strong>to</strong>p there: thousands of others are affected by their<br />
energy. I have a big pho<strong>to</strong> of Dara Torres <strong>to</strong>rn from a magazine taped right next <strong>to</strong> my computer screen. Her<br />
arms, holding her daughter, are ripped and beautiful, and they inspire me <strong>to</strong> push myself lifting weights.<br />
Third, if you’ve ever owned a real estate property or started a company, you know that spending money on<br />
improvements often brings more business and profits flooding in. Hence, the old saying, “You have <strong>to</strong> spend<br />
money <strong>to</strong> make money.”<br />
So it also is with the time you will spend in the kitchen preparing a GreenSmoothieGirl diet. That time will give<br />
back. It will richly bless your life. It will make possible your achieving goals you’ve had on the back burner a<br />
long time. Go make it happen, one recipe at a time, one day at a time. Just one step <strong>to</strong> whole foods at a time!<br />
© Copyright Robyn Openshaw <strong>12</strong> <strong>Steps</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Whole</strong> <strong>Foods</strong> 27
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