Driving to Oroville, a
five-hour inland trek from the California coast, I was hot, sweaty and creased
to the car seat. As I neared my destination, I passed a sign posted outside a
shack that read, Chocolate-covered prunes.
I broke up. This is an oxymoron!
Prunes are a biological
green light. Chocolate is a red light. Eating the two together is a mixed
blessing, likely to create a traffic jam in your intestines.
How many of us do this
with our own health? Or relationships, business, finances — you fill in the
blank. Perhaps you covet a certain plum account, person, dream house — then
self-sabotage by "mixing it" with an action that aborts the flow. READ MORE