How-to: Eating Humble Pie

This dessert is excellent for having better relationships with others or with yourself.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of "okay, I've goofed up here"
• 8 cups of admitting that you're not so wise or loving after all
• 12 cups of humiltiy
• 16 cups of realizing that wisdom and love may also have something to do with eating this pie
• 100% bitter chocolate (which makes eating this pie really hard without honey)
• honey (which sweetens the bitterness)

Steps:

Mix all of the ingredients together but leave the 16 cups of realization for the end.  This is how you eat the pie and what you say to the appropriate person (either another person or yourself):

1. "My behaviour hasn't been the most useful or helpful lately.  I'd like to change that."
2. "I understand your wants and they are important."

Okay, bottom line is this:  " I screwed up and I behaved like a jacka$$.  I'd like to move forward.  How does that sit with you?"

Top off your honey chocolate humble pie with 16 cups of realization that wisdom and love continue to grow when you eat this pie.