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Sharing is lovely. Lemons are lovely too and are an essential ingredient in G&Ts or a nice hot cup of, er, well, lemon in the morning. G&T is for after 5.30pm obviously.

I’m sure you know how to cut up a lemon and this is a particularly good ‘chef-style’ way that avoids getting squirted in the eye, if you are about to squeeze some juice over your food.

1. Take a lemon and cut off both ends to leave the middle 80%.

2. Stand this on one end and cut down through it to create two halves.

3. Lay each half face down and cut them into quarters along the width, to make 4 chunky lemon wedges.

4. For each quarter carefully trim off the pith along the narrow end of the wedge and remove any pips.

5. Finally cut into each quarter from the inside and at the midpoint, but stop when you reach the skin. This will break the tension in the little inner structures, so if you squeeze it the juice tends not to shoot out at random.

You will now have 8 beautifully sliced wedges of lemon. And if you only want one, pop the rest into the freezer for another day. I use them straight from freezer into boiling water for a morning cup of hot lemon and now I don’t have half a spare lemon cluttering up the kitchen. I love it!

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Before I go shopping for food I look in the fridge, see what we’re missing and add it to the list. I open the cupboards and count the tins and work out what we need. I take stock.

We can look into our own inner fridges and rifle through our cupboards of talent – we can take stock of what we have and what we are missing.

My suggestion is that we spend a lot of time celebrating what we have and simply choose one thing that we’re missing to work on.

We can do the same with our business. We can take stock and be objective about the goodness we have. It’s tempting to be fed up with what we do, spot the flaws, grumble at what we don’t have and this is to miss the point. The point is that we know our flaws, whereas someone who comes to us new, does not – they see us objectively for what we are and what we can do.

The new person likes what they see, because there is a lot to like.

So, we can take stock and be fair to ourselves. Maybe the fridge isn’t so empty after all, maybe there is a cheese omelette in there that we can’t see yet because we choose to notice what’s missing rather than what is there.

I like omelettes and you can do a lot with an egg.

What’s in your business fridge?

Next week: How To Cut Up A Lemon