Make The World A Better Place: Be A Cookie

One of the seminars I attended at the Conference at which I was speaking last week was about seeing your life as a cookie. Kathy See is the editor of Revive magazine and she wanted us to focus on our self-perception and what we might be able to offer in terms of writing a short inspirational article. The idea is that we all have a story to tell when it comes to making the world a better place. And naturally, as a keen cook, and mommy to two little boys, Kathy expressed herself in culinary language.

WRITE YOUR PERSONALITY REPORT AS A RECIPE FOR COOKIES

It took me only a short time to decide that if I were to write my personality report as a cookie recipe, I’d be one of those coconut pyramid things. So here's a list of the ingredients, method and description.

• Simple ingredients: the life-giving creativity of egg-white (readers tell me that my writing has sometimes transformed lives); the milky, fibrous nourishment of coconut (I hope my public speaking events sustain and feed those who hear me); the sweet naughtiness of sugar (the fun and laughter I experienced at that conference was so rewarding!)
• Complex combination of possibilities in form and shape. I’m probably not the easiest person in the world when it comes to knowing me and understanding me – but that’s because I’m deep. Persevere – please do!
• A little misshapen on the outside due to the hard knocks of life I’ve suffered because of broken relationships, bereavement, rejection and betrayal.
• A crispy outer shell – perhaps a little self-protective at times?
• Browned off and really overdone in places, when I see the injustice and indifference in the world. I can be passionate and outspoken when my values are threatened.
• May be quite crumbly if mishandled, but am more than willing for those crumbs to be dabbed up and consumed by others. (The crumbs are always the best bit!)
• Terribly soft and gooey on the inside – easily reduced to tears on behalf of those who are hurting.
• And very, very sticky! If I’m your friend, there’s no getting rid of me. I’m gonna be around for a long, long time.

So I’d like to offer this piece to you, now. If you were to write your personality report as a recipe for cookies, how it would it look?

• Which cookie would you be?
• What ingredients would it contain?
• How might they be combined?
• What shape would your cookie be?
• What consistency would it have: crisp, crunchy, soft, sticky?

Here’s what to do, and what’s in it for you:

1. Write your cookie recipe up in the comment box.
2. There’s a free copy of my novel, A Painful Post Mortem, for the best entry.
3. The top three entries will be published on my website.
4. And I’ll send them to Kathy See to find out if she’d like to publish them in her magazine.

Don’t forget, this is a personality report written in the form of a cookie recipe, showing how you, as a cookie, might help to make the world a better place by showing others that they’re not alone.