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It’s election day. <\/span>Taking my usual morning walk, a recent article came to mind that had an unusual take on the Obama campaign. <\/span>It explained Obama’s success in terms of his brilliance as a book marketer. <\/span><\/p>\n \n I never thought about Obama as an author, only a politician, but according to this article his ladder to success started with his book. <\/span><\/p>\n \n Recalling that article this morning was a wake up call for me. <\/span>I’m an author, too. <\/span>What have I made of all the dreams I crammed into my<\/em> book?<\/p>\n \n It’s clear to see that Obama never lost sight of all the hopes and dreams laid out in his book. <\/span>He clung to them steadfastedly, even when Clinton was taking the lead in the primaries or McCain and Palin were coming on strong after the Republican convention. <\/span>Through everything, he remained calmly committed to his dream–and just kept speaking his truth.<\/p>\n \n So how do I measure up? <\/span>Sure I have a dream of guiding busy people back to the joy, nurture and comfort of real foods. <\/span>But then I go grocery shopping, see rows upon rows of factory-made packaged foods and get disheartened. <\/span>Or I see how perpetually busy people are and figure no one will ever have time to prepare whole and natural foods. <\/span>Or I read statistics on the amount of sugar and lack of green in our diets and think maybe I need a new profession. <\/span><\/p>\n \n Clearly, I’m not as committed to my dreams as I need to be\u2014not nearly enough to tough it out through the hard times. Like the guy or not, there’s something to learn from Obama: <\/span>If a little state senator from Illinois can nurture a dream of bringing change to our country by becoming president, then surely I could do a better job bringing my dreams to fruition. <\/span>Time to haul out my mission statement, do a “dream check” and get inspired again.<\/p>\n \n If you’re feeling a little low about your eating dreams and goals, consider following this guy’s lead.\u00a0 Write them down (in a notebook is fine; you don’t have to write a book), then review regularly and never cave in to doubt.\u00a0 Happy meals!<\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do Obama and dreams have to do with healthier eating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[33,58,169,178,184],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supportive-thinking-for-healthy-cooking","category-uncategorized","tag-achieving-dreams-and-goals","tag-barak-obama","tag-dream-check","tag-eating-goals","tag-election-day","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}