YOU ARE THE STEAK!

Today a client told me that she could not celebrate her winning a new account, her success, because she did not have a man in her life. Somehow she felt her life was less valuable without a man. I looked at her and told her the story of my wonderful time at a very expensive steak house--you know, the kind that charges 45 dollars for a piece of steak. We ordered our meal and then came the wonderful marbled meat... complete with sizzle and red wine. It was divine and as we gobbled and swooned over the specialness and perfectness of the meal. Around 20 minutes later, the waitress ran over, mortified and apologetic that she had forgotten the sherry-shallot gravy. We all paused and looked at each other and said, "The steak on its own is divine." "Oh but you must have it with the gravy because that is our specialty," she said with conviction. So we said, "ok, just leave it on the table." We all tried it and in truth it was wonderful, but the meal would have been absolutely perfect as is without the gravy....

And that is your life, I told my client. Your life is perfection on its own. You are perfect on your own. A man would be lovely but that is not what adds value to it. You are the steak!! You don't need the gravy to make it better!