This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | November 19, 2025 — give yourself the right stuff (baby)
Happy sweet Wednesday đź’ś
Today I have NKOTB’s You Got It (The Right Stuff) stuck in my head (and maybe now you do too) as I’m thinking about how to approach today’s topic: right resourcing.
This story begins with the breaking of my beloved French press on an afternoon not too long ago when my daughter was home sick from school. Picture this: I’m washing dishes post lunch, dreaming about a delicious and hot cup of coffee that I’m about to make when my French press slips right out of my hands, shattering into the sink.
A travesty.
My best solution at the time was to use a shopping service to get a replacement delivered quickly, but all the available French presses seemed like junk, so I seized this opportunity to try a pour over that I’d been eyeing. It was delivered promptly and I got to make myself a cup of coffee.
But the coffee sucked. It tasted like actual bean water, lacking the bold vivaciousness I dig.
I thought maybe I had to get used to it. After all, I love a good pour over from places like the Village Farmacy. It had to be something I could tweak. I adjusted how I grind my beans and the amount of beans I use. Nothing worked. The water just wasn’t staying with the grounds long enough to extract the flavor I need.
During this process of trial and error, I purchased a goose neck stove kettle I had on my wish list for awhile, but it was taking a long time to arrive. The kettle I had from my French press era was giant and clunky and meant to douse water into whatever vessel you were pouring into without the control and nuance that pour overs require.
I was ready to give up and go back to a French press. But then my new kettle arrived.
And it’s everything I needed.
It’s the right resource to control the pour rate of water so I can tease out the flavor of my coffee beans. It also brings this renewed sense of magic to my coffee making ritual — it requires more patience and gives me time to mindfully immerse myself in the process and infuse my coffee with positive energy as I pour. It’s also just downright sexy.
And now everyday when I’m making coffee, I have this extra delight, not only in all the ritual of it, but in the decadent taste and experience of drinking this beverage I’ve brewed for myself with such care and love.
Do you see where I’m going here? I finally had the right resource to meet my needs.
Whether it’s a tea kettle or blocking off an hour in your calendar or putting an extra blanket on your bed, do it already. You’re worth it. Give yourself the right resource.
Don’t make do and make yourself a martyr because you were taught that’s the cool and chic thing to do. We all deserve to have our needs met. And every time you lean into that resource, you’re reinforcing how much you care about yourself, and that’s some BIG magic ✨
In good energy,
