COOKING: A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

The concept of cooking is often perceived as merely a hobby and a need to fulfil the basic requirements. Though, it is also a profession for many people, but how cooking can help in boosting our confidence, making us self disciplined and inspiring us in many aspects of life is what we are going to discuss in this article. The way cooking is taken and the way it actually is has a large disparity which needs to be understood and implemented. 

1. Time for oneself 

       

People choose to go out, on weekends, to have some quality time to spend with themselves. They want to stay away from their daily routine workload, stress and problems and be mindful to other things. Cooking also provides an excellent opportunity to practice the same at home. It does so as it requires your full engagement and focus in it. The process of cooking and preparing a meal forces you to live in the moment. From chopping the vegetables to smelling the aroma of prepared dish helps in connection our senses which stop distractions. This meditative quality of cooking removes stress and anxiety and allows us to be fully conscious of what is happening. Living in the moment is itself spending time with oneself and the one who is around you. 

2. Discipline

       

A small thing like cooking also demands very careful planning and then execution. Selection of the ingredients, intensity of the flames, timing of the whole process and maintaining your full concentration on the dish requires self discipline. If we can cultivate and inherit the self discipline in the kitchen, we can very well strengthen ourselves in other aspects of life, such as work, studies and our personal life. This thing is not like you automatically become self disciplined if you can cook a good food, it should be taken in a way of learning form small things, like cooking, and implementing them in other areas too. Discipline is one thing that is even more significant and powerful tool than motivation in our life. 

3. Accomplishment and confidence

         
 

Small yet powerful thing to learn from. After you finish cooking a delicious meal, it offers you a sense of completion and satisfaction that you have made it from scratch. Mastering some new recipes and techniques help in growing our culinary skills and boosting our confidence level which we can use in other areas of life too. Although, it is different in kitchen and life, but the level is maintained which gives you hope of accomplishing something beyond kitchen. This translated confidence, which you developed in the kitchen, is very important in enhancing our ability to take new challenges and try out new things. 

4. Social bonds

   

Cooking is a communal activity which brings friends and families together around the table. Home made food is always better than the outsourced food as it creates lasting memories and strengthen the social bonds. Helping each other in the kitchen, appreciating the efforts put by one another and then having the meal together is what strengthens the cord of relationships. 

Things seem very knowing and repetitive in nature when you read them, but when it comes to take the benefits by implementing that thing practically in life, is becomes a challenge. So, people often stuck. Which is why we should never underestimate the power of little things. They have a unique power to give you a simulated view and then stimulates you to take initiative. 

    Cooking is more than a hobby.