Is it good to be a foodie?

Hello my dear friends, let’s discuss one more amazing learnings that I got in my entrepreneurial journey.

So today's topic is quite interesting.

As you all know that I have been sharing the learnings that I keep getting from my mentor.

He not only teaches me about business but also a lot about how to live, what kinds of lifestyle I should have, what kind of thought process should I carry and what kind of identity should I make.

           One beautiful evening when I was just chit-chatting with my mentor, sharing about my routine and my likes and dislikes, he was sharing about his too.

We found a lot of common things between us which made me feel that these are the reasons why I could relate to him and our wavelength matches so well.

Of course there were a lot of differences too. But that is how it should be right?.

Now you all must be wondering why were we discussing so much about being compatible.

We are just business partners .

But my mentor always says choosing a business partner is as important as choosing a life partner.

The word partner is associated with a very few relationships in life.

One is a partner for life and another is partner for business.

 Which means a person who is a part of you in your life.

One wrong decision in choosing a partner in either of the relationships, and your life is on stake.

Hence it is very important to check the compatibility while choosing a business partner as well first, business will happen later.

So while we were discussing all of these, I happen to say “I am a big time foodie”.

My mentor raised his eyebrows and gave me a confused look.

I thought that he might have not heard me so I repeated my sentence that : 

"I am a big time foodie”.

My mentor asked me, "Is that your identity?”.

I said, “ No that is one of my likes”.

To this my mentor corrected me and said, "Anything following I Am becomes your identity”.

Like "I am a doctor, I am an actor, I am an Athleate ,I am an Entrepreneur" etc.

So if you say that I am a Foodie that means that is your identity.

Have you ever seen any of the successful person saying this?.

As I keep reading and watching about successful people, try to learn from them, I never heard anyone saying it. Hence I nodded by head as "No"

My mentor said, “Food is just to nourish ourselves”

We should rather have a good and healthy diet, which will nourish ourselves, keep us healthy and make us successful too.

Eating right is an important aspect in our success.

 One must know what to eat, when to eat and most important how much to eat.

And that is the reason why all the successful people have a dietician to guide them.

But we often make a mistake by eating anything and everything that we like and calling ourselves a foodie.

We do not have to get indulge in food, which means that we eat for pleasure.

And when something is done for pleasure, we over do it.

 But eat to nourish ourselves.

And that’s when I realized that I do not want to indulge in food and make my identity as a foodie.

Rather I should say that "I am fit and healthy".

 

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