Dear Jeanne: This is a favorite treat for holiday mornings. I can guess that there are a lot of calories, and I was wondering if it could be made less fattening. Can you help?
Lack of focus is sometimes a purposeful self-defeating tactic your subconscious uses to keep you from success. Success is NOT a destination. It's a journey.1/4 cup wheat germWhat I am talking about here is something I call "Sign-up-Itis."1/4 cup butter, meltedREDUCED-FAT MONKEY BREADThe cure for Sign-up-itis is focus and hard work. Success is something you decide to achieve one day. It's that decision that is often the biggest hurdle any future success story has to conquer.The question is "Do you really want to be one of those people, or are you stuck in a cycle of constantly sabotaging your success with a lack of focus?"Thank you. -- Helen F., Provo, UtahPreheat oven to 350 F. Cut biscuits into quarters. Put 3/4 cup of the sugar and the cinnamon in a bag. Shake the rolls in the sugar mixture, one can at a time. Put in a Bundt pan. Layer raisins or nuts as desired. Put the remaining 3/4 cup sugar and the butter in a pan; heat to melt butter (low heat). After you put all the rolls in the pan, pour butter mixture over. Mix gently to distribute the butter. Set timer for 30 minutes. Cover with foil and bake for 15 more minutes. Flip out when done. Beware of the excess melted butter.1 tablespoon cinnamonNow, here is the part where most people give up. They say to themselves "Internet marketing is nothing more than a series of steps that I cannot complete. I am always excited when I get started on something, but when it comes down to DOING what I start, it gets hard and doesn't happen as fast as I would like it to."1 tablespoon ground cinnamon2. Spread the raisins out in the bottom of a small bowl, add the 2 tablespoons boiling water and set aside.It should be no surprise the next time you get an email with the next best thing inside. You should say to yourself "That's great! Another opportunity for someone has just been born! But I am busy with MY business and cannot take on another venture at this time."You see the more you become active on the net as either someone looking for the right opportunity, or as someone who has found the right opportunity already, the more you are bombarded with choices. Everyday you get emails saying that the next best thing since sliced bread has come along.We Do It On PurposeMONKEY BREADBut don't let a lack of focus and your fear of success tear you away from your dreams. USE your fear and confront it, right now. Today.Then you get an email from a friend or associate telling you that you HAVE to check out the latest and greatest. You do. It's an awesome opportunity. You look at your plate and it's already full with your current project, but the plate has a lot of things on it you really don't enjoy doing. It's a lot of work to make any business pay off, as you can see from the short list above.The question is not "Can you really make money online?" This has been proven time and again over the years by thousands of people, many of whom you read about all the time.Opportunity abounds and is right there for us to snatch up and achieve success. Never let yourself fall into the trap of reasoning your way out of success. "It's not for me." "I can't do this - it's for people much better with computers and internet marketing than me.""It's Much More Fun To Think About Success Than It Is To Do The Work It Takes To Achieve It"Wear electronic blinders. Keep lean and mean and only take on new responsibilities that will be good for your CURRENT business.It goes like this: You find your focus, you are fired up. All is good and you are ready to start working on the hundreds of little things you need to do to get traffic and make sales. You need to get good search engine positioning, you need a links campaign, you have to research ezines in your niche and place ads, you need to set up joint ventures, you need to create and update content on your site, set up a merchant account, a delivery system, and the list goes on from there.I changed the method slightly, so every little nugget would be covered with all the goodies. I cut 40 biscuits into 4 pieces each. So I calculated that each serving would be about 10 nuggets.But this NEW thing is exciting, fresh, new. It draws you in and it's MUCH more fun to think about success than it is to do the work it takes to achieve it, so you buy in. You get a ton of tools to start this new venture. It's all overwhelming, especially since you have gone back to your first venture and realized you now have TWO great things that can both make you money, but they BOTH need your attention on a grand scale in order to see profit.4 cans biscuits1/2 cup raisins (optional)1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray a Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
Jeanne Jones is the author of 33 cookbooks, most recently "Cooking From the Cupboard" (Rodale Press). For more information, you can go to her Web site, jeannejones.com. Send your recipe for revision to: Cook It Light, Deseret Morning News, P.O. Box 1212, La Jolla, CA 92038. Please include a stamped (63 cents), self- addressed envelope. (c) King Features Syndicate Inc.
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