365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Eighteen - 1/18/2021

One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…

Welcome to day eighteen of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… when I left you yesterday… I was just about to start the mise en place process for all of the dishes that I planned to make… dishes meant to fulfill the task that I came up with for yesterday’s Chili Day assignment… dishes all filled with spicy peppers and/or beans and meat to keep with the chili theme… below are my featured ingredients…

There were actually more ingredients involved… but I forgot to add them into the mix for the photo… because they were ingredients that I already had in the fridge… and not items that were unpacked specifically to be photographed to get one quick shot in order to complete last night’s post…

After hitting publish… the mise en place process began… which in this case meant deseeding the peppers before chopping everything up…

The ingredients above went into a spicy cream cheese-based dig… those ingredients being a bag of jalapenos… a bag of habaneros… and a bunch of homegrown basil… dill… and green onions from my garden!!! I didn’t really make measurements… I just threw everything together with some cream cheese in a bowl…

It turned out to be really tasty… I’m not sure if the basil and dill cut down on the spice because no matter how much of the pepper blend I added… I never tasted the kick that I was expecting considering how much my unwashed hands burnt my face and eyes during the deseeding process… I really enjoyed this dip… especially while waiting for the Frito Pie fixin’s to cook…

On top of the ingredients pictured above… I also set aside some of the bit that went into the dip… in the hopes to add a spicy kick to the canned chili… since store-bought canned chili seems to max out at medium heat… I also made some cheesy toast using the Ghost Pepper Monterey Jack that you can barely see in the first photo… and is the melted white stuff on the toast in the image below…

Though not the spiciest dish that I’ve ever tried… it was the best-tasting meal that I’ve made for myself in quite some time… and I’m excited to have leftover Frito Pie for lunch today… and enough dip to get me to the end of the week… all while fulfilling the task from yesterday’s assignment…

And with that… It’s now time to move on to the assignment for today…

According to the 365 Days Of Marketing book… today is Winnie The Pooh Day… too bad it’s not Winny Puhh Day… because that could lead to a crazy fun task to try to pull off by the end of the day… instead of just being pleasant while eating honey…

Well… I may be pleasant while eating honey today… but that would only be a coincidence… since I have another plan to meet the assignment’s theme… where… in honor of Winnie The Pooh Day… I will accept to stop being such an Eeyore because I’m starting to find that only put on the pessimistic outlook in an effort to try to fit in…

I’ve been noticing over the past couple of years how… every time I invite someone to work with me on a project… I’m instantly met by all of the invitee’s doubts… while I’m filled with confidence that I will at least try anything… with or without anyone else’s help… so… when dealing with others… I tend to lead with my own doubts to beat them to the punch… making me seem like a sad sack when I’m really not that bad…

I think this is why I started to isolate… because I used to be the one who was enthusiastic about everything… and would ask people to join me on projects using such high energy that others would find that they were already involved before even getting a chance to point out the impossible…

Granted… I don’t know if I will ever get back to that level of constant excitement around others… but I’m done adding to the negative energy in this world… and will stop preemptively trying to find the fun in thinking about all of the ways that things might not go right… that might have been a reverse-psychology effort to get others to join me after telling me not to be so negative… even though this approach has yet to do anything but lead to my own self-doubt…

We’ll see how I handle this task throughout the rest of the day… when I check in tomorrow for day nineteen of this year-long project that will no longer start with Eeyore-ish tones…