Did you eat your pancakes today?
Reem Olaby, Bpharm, MS, MPH, PhD, PMP, SFHEA
Senior Fellow in Higher Education | Associate Professor
Waking up in the morning, feel like it is pancake time, you start preparing the dough, and getting the pan, covering it with an oil film and then you light the stove...Only then you know you are out of stove gas!!!!
Well, I must eat pancake, I feel like it! Nothing will stand in front of me, what other resources do I have?!
Hmmm, lets try the microwave...You put part of the dough in a plate and put in the microwave for 1:30 minutes, and here you go, one cheese pancake is ready....But do you feel it is good and yummy enough?!!! Well, if you are not satisfied there are always other resources....
The panini maker machine, here you are putting the dough and closing the panini machine hoping it would give you a better pancake...You open, fill it with cheese, roll it and here you are, a pancake you are happy with...
What is all this about?! Well, it is simply a metaphor. Eating pancakes in this example is like any goal you would like to achieve in this life, yet you faced some obstacles like being out of gas stove in this case.
it simply tells you that when you are determined on doing something and trying to do it efficiently, when you have a will, there will always be a way to do it...Just calm down, look for the capabilities deep inside you and the resources around you...
Enjoy your pancake! I mean your life with a strong determination to achieve what you aspire...
If there is a will there is a way ! Thank you and Enjoy the pancake!